SUSE-SU-2025:1201-1: important: Security update for expat
SLE-SECURITY-UPDATES
null at suse.de
Fri Apr 11 12:30:09 UTC 2025
# Security update for expat
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1201-1
Release Date: 2025-04-11T10:16:48Z
Rating: important
References:
* bsc#1239618
* jsc#PED-12500
* jsc#SLE-21253
Cross-References:
* 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
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6
* SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3
* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3
* SUSE Manager Server 4.3
An update that solves one vulnerability and contains two features can now be
installed.
## Description:
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-
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) to 11:2:10 (libexpat_.so.1.10.2); see https://verbump.de/ for what
these numbers do Infrastructure: #982 CI: Start running Perl XML::Parser
integration tests #987 CI: Enforce Clang Static Analyzer clean code #991 CI: Re-
enable warning clang-analyzer-valist.Uninitialized for clang-tidy #981 CI: Cover
compilation with musl #983 #984 CI: Cover compilation with 32bit Emscripten #976
#977 CI: Protect against fuzzer files missing from future release archives
* version update to 2.7.0 #935 #937 Autotools: Make generated CMake files look
for libexpat. at SO_MAJOR@.dylib on macOS #925 Autotools: Sync CMake templates
with CMake 3.29 #945 #962 #966 CMake: Drop support for CMake <3.13 #942
CMake: Small fuzzing related improvements #921 docs: Add missing
documentation of error code XML_ERROR_NOT_STARTED that was introduced with
2.6.4 #941 docs: Document need for C++11 compiler for use from C++ #959
tests/benchmark: Fix a (harmless) TOCTTOU #944 Windows: Fix installer target
location of file xmlwf.xml for CMake #953 Windows: Address warning
-Wunknown-warning-option about -Wno-pedantic-ms-format from LLVM MinGW #971
Address Cppcheck warnings #969 #970 Mass-migrate links from http:// to
https:// #947 #958 .. #974 #975 Document changes since the previous release
#974 #975 Version info bumped from 11:0:10 (libexpat _.so.1.10.0) to 11:1:10
(libexpat_.so.1.10.1); see https://verbump.de/ for what these numbers do
## 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 Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-1201=1
* Basesystem Module 15-SP6
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.3-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Retail-Branch-
Server-4.3-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Manager Server 4.3
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Server-4.3-2025-1201=1
* openSUSE Leap 15.4
zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-1201=1
* openSUSE Leap 15.6
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-1201=1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-1201=1
## Package List:
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 (aarch64
x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (aarch64
x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (aarch64
x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (aarch64
x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 (ppc64le x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Manager Server 4.3 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Manager Server 4.3 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64_ilp32)
* libexpat-devel-64bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-64bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-64bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-64bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)
* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat-devel-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1
## References:
* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8176.html
* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239618
* https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12500
* https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-21253
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