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Important Out-Of-Bounds Risk Advisory for SUSE polkit CVE-2025-7519

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Important notice regarding polkit rectifies CVE-2025-7610, which could result in possible buffer overflow vulnerability. Take immediate action!
* bsc#1246472 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-7519

Summary

## This update for polkit fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-7519: Fixed a XML policy file with a large number of nested elements that may lead to out-of-bounds write. (bsc#1246472) ## 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: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2025-2525=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-2525=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-5.30.1 * polkit-debuginfo-0.113-5.30.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE remote access important out-of-bounds polkit

References

* bsc#1246472

Cross-

* CVE-2025-7519

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-7519 ( SUSE ): 7.1

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-7519 ( SUSE ): 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-7519 ( NVD ): 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246472

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02525-1
Release Date: 2025-07-25T13:28:49Z
Rating: important

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security advisory SuSE remote access important out-of-bounds polkit

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