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SUSE Security Update 2025:20207-1 Critical: Expat Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey June 4, 2025
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Urgent security bulletin for SUSE expat upgrade addressing significant vulnerabilities including potential denial of service threats.
* bsc#1219559 * bsc#1219561 * bsc#1221289 * bsc#1229930 * bsc#1229931

Summary

## This update for expat fixes the following issues: Version update to 2.7.1: * Bug fixes: * 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-certification #978 tests/benchmark: Resolve mistaken double close #986 Address compiler warnings #990 #993 Version info bumped from 11:1:10 (libexpat _.so.1.10.1)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow important suse expat

References

* bsc#1219559

* bsc#1219561

* bsc#1221289

* bsc#1229930

* bsc#1229931

* bsc#1229932

* bsc#1232579

* bsc#1232601

* bsc#1239618

* jsc#SLE-21253

Cross-

* CVE-2013-0340

* CVE-2019-15903

* CVE-2023-52425

* CVE-2023-52426

* CVE-2024-28757

* CVE-2024-45490

* CVE-2024-45491

* CVE-2024-45492

* CVE-2024-50602

* CVE-2024-8176

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2019-15903 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2019-15903 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2019-15903 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2019-15903 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2023-52425 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2023-52425 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20207-1
Release Date: 2025-04-29T11:07:48Z
Rating: important

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security advisory denial of service buffer overflow important suse expat

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