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SUSE: 2025:1201-1 critical: fix for expat stack overflow vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Critical security fix available for expatriate software resolving denial of service vulnerabilities in SUSE operating environments. Apply the update immediately.
* bsc#1239618 * jsc#PED-12500 * jsc#SLE-21253 Cross-References:

Summary

## This update for expat fixes the following issues: * CVE-2024-8176: Fixed denial of service from chaining a large number of entities caused by stack overflow by resolving use of recursion (bsc#1239618) Other fixes: \- version update to 2.7.1 (jsc#PED-12500) Bug fixes: #980 #989 Restore event pointer behavior from Expat 2.6.4 (that the fix to CVE-2024-8176 changed in 2.7.0); affected API functions are: \- XML_GetCurrentByteCount \- XML_GetCurrentByteIndex \- XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber \- XML_GetCurrentLineNumber \- XML_GetInputContext Other changes: #976 #977 Autotools: Integrate files "fuzz/xml_lpm_fuzzer.{cpp,proto}" with Automake that were missing from 2.7.0 release tarballs #983 #984 Fix printf format specifiers for 32bit Emscripten #992 docs: Promote OpenSSF Best Practices self-

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update important risk expat

References

* bsc#1239618

* jsc#PED-12500

* jsc#SLE-21253

Cross-

* CVE-2024-8176

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-8176 ( SUSE ): 8.7

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

* CVE-2024-8176 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2024-8176 ( 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

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1201-1
Release Date: 2025-04-11T10:16:48Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update important risk expat

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