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SUSE: expat Important Memory Amplification Vulnerability CVE-2025-59375

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE issues security advisory for expat addressing memory amplification vulnerability with important severity and patch instructions.
* bsc#1249584 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-59375

Summary

## This update for expat fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-59375: memory amplification vulnerability allows attackers to trigger excessive dynamic memory allocations by submitting crafted XML input (bsc#1249584). ## 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 ESPOS 15 SP5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-3624=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3624=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-3624=1

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References

* bsc#1249584

Cross-

* CVE-2025-59375

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-59375 ( 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

* CVE-2025-59375 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2025-59375 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03624-1
Release Date: 2025-10-16T19:59:58Z
Rating: important

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