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SUSE: 2025:02079-1 Critical Update: ICU Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2025
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Essential SUSE enhancement resolves key vulnerabilities in icu, offering patch guidelines for different products to bolster security measures.
* bsc#1161007 * bsc#1167603 * bsc#1193951 * bsc#1243721

Summary

## This update for icu fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-5222: Stack buffer overflow in the SRBRoot:addTag function (bsc#1243721). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2079=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2079=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2079=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2079=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2079=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP6

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References

* bsc#1161007

* bsc#1167603

* bsc#1193951

* bsc#1243721

Cross-

* CVE-2020-21913

* CVE-2025-5222

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2020-21913 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2020-21913 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2025-5222 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-5222 ( NVD ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02079-1
Release Date: 2025-06-24T10:25:31Z
Rating: important

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