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SUSE Enterprise Server: GnuTLS Important Issues Fixed Advisory 2025:02583-1

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2025
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An update for gnutls addresses critical vulnerabilities pertaining to memory corruption and other security defects in SUSE environments.
* bsc#1246232 * bsc#1246267 * bsc#1246299 Cross-References:

Summary

## This update for gnutls fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-6395: Fix NULL pointer dereference when 2nd Client Hello omits PSK (bsc#1246299) * CVE-2025-32988: Fix double-free due to incorrect ownership handling in the export logic of SAN entries containing an otherName (bsc#1246232) * CVE-2025-32990: Fix 1-byte heap buffer overflow when parsing templates with certtool (bsc#1246267) ## 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 High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-2583=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow SuSE important gnutls CVE

References

* bsc#1246232

* bsc#1246267

* bsc#1246299

Cross-

* CVE-2025-32988

* CVE-2025-32990

* CVE-2025-6395

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-32988 ( SUSE ): 9.2

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

* CVE-2025-32988 ( SUSE ): 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-32988 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2025-32990 ( SUSE ): 4.8

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

* CVE-2025-32990 ( SUSE ): 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-32990 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-6395 ( SUSE ): 8.2

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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02583-1
Release Date: 2025-07-31T16:04:47Z
Rating: important

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