SUSE: PostgreSQL17,18 Important Update for Buffer Overflow Risk 2025:4363-1
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December 11, 2025
* bsc#1253332 * bsc#1253333 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-12817
Summary
## This update for postgresql17, postgresql18 fixes the following issues: Changes in postgresql18: * Fix build with uring for post SLE15 code streams. Update to 18.1: * https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-181-177-1611-1515-1420-and-1323-released-3171/ * https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/18.1/ * bsc#1253332, CVE-2025-12817: Missing check for CREATE privileges on the schema in CREATE STATISTICS allowed table owners to create statistics in any schema, potentially leading to unexpected naming conflicts. * bsc#1253333, CVE-2025-12818: Several places in libpq were not sufficiently careful about computing the required size of a memory allocation. Sufficiently large inputs could cause integer overflow, resulting in an
References
* bsc#1253332
* bsc#1253333
Cross-
* CVE-2025-12817
* CVE-2025-12818
CVSS scores:
* CVE-2025-12817 ( SUSE ): 5.3
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
* CVE-2025-12817 ( SUSE ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
* CVE-2025-12817 ( NVD ): 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
* CVE-2025-12818 ( SUSE ): 8.7
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
* CVE-2025-12818 ( SUSE ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
* CVE-2025-12818 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
* Basesystem Module 15-SP6
* Basesystem Module 15-SP7
* openSUSE Leap 15.6
* Server Applications Module 15-SP6
* Server Applications Module 15-SP7
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4363-1
Release Date: 2025-12-11T10:10:59Z
Rating: important
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