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SUSE: 2025:20087-1 important: libarchive remote execution

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Calendar Grey June 4, 2025
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This patch resolves significant buffer overflow and unauthorized command execution vulnerabilities present in the libarchive module of SUSE.
* bsc#1225972 * bsc#1231544 * bsc#1231624 Cross-References:

Summary

## This update for libarchive fixes the following issues: * CVE-2024-48958: Fixed out-of-bounds access in execute_filter_delta (bsc#1231624). * CVE-2024-20697: Fixed out-of-bounds remote code execution vulnerability (bsc#1225972). * CVE-2024-48957: Fixed out-of-bounds access in execute_filter_audio (bsc#1231544). ## 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 Micro 6.0 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-121=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64) * libarchive13-3.6.2-4.1 * libarchive-debugsource-3.6.2-4.1 * libarchive13-debuginfo-3.6.2-4.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution important SUSE Linux out-of-bounds access libarchive

References

* bsc#1225972

* bsc#1231544

* bsc#1231624

Cross-

* CVE-2024-20697

* CVE-2024-26256

* CVE-2024-48957

* CVE-2024-48958

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-20697 ( SUSE ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-20697 ( NVD ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-26256 ( SUSE ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-26256 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-48957 ( SUSE ): 5.7

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

* CVE-2024-48957 ( SUSE ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2024-48957 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-48957 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20087-1
Release Date: 2025-02-03T09:09:14Z
Rating: important

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