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SUSE: coreutils Moderate Heap Buffer Overflow Vuln 2025:20660-1

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Security patch for coreutils targeting CVE-2025-5278 resolves a heap overflow vulnerability in SUSE Linux Micro 6.1.
* bsc#1243767 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-5278

Summary

## This update for coreutils fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-5278: Sort with key character offsets of SIZE_MAX, could induce a read of 1 byte before an allocated heap buffer (bsc#1243767). ## 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 6.1 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-238=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * coreutils-debugsource-9.4-slfo.1.1_2.1 * coreutils-debuginfo-9.4-slfo.1.1_2.1 * coreutils-9.4-slfo.1.1_2.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE coreutils heap buffer cve-2025-5278

References

* bsc#1243767

Cross-

* CVE-2025-5278

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-5278 ( SUSE ): 2.4

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

* CVE-2025-5278 ( SUSE ): 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2025-5278 ( NVD ): 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Micro 6.1

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5278.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243767

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20660-1
Release Date: 2025-08-28T15:15:06Z
Rating: moderate

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