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<h1>Security update for expat</h1>
<table class="table table-striped table-bordered">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2025:1186-1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-04-09T14:28:15Z</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>References:</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239618">bsc#1239618</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12500">jsc#PED-12500</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-21253">jsc#SLE-21253</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
Cross-References:
</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8176.html">CVE-2024-8176</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>CVSS scores:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-8176</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">8.7</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">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</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-8176</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">7.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-8176</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">7.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Affected Products:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>An update that solves one vulnerability and contains two features can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for expat fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>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)</li>
</ul>
<p>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<em>.so.1.10.1)
to 11:2:10 (libexpat</em>.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</p>
<ul>
<li>version update to 2.7.0
#935 #937 Autotools: Make generated CMake files look for
libexpat.@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<em>.so.1.10.0)
to 11:1:10 (libexpat</em>.so.1.10.1); see https://verbump.de/
for what these numbers do<ul>
<li>Version info bumped from 9:3:8 to 9:4:8;
see https://verbump.de/ for what these numbers do</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
</p>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1186=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1186=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-1186=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-1186=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2025-1186=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-1186=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-1186=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8176.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8176.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239618">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239618</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12500">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12500</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-21253">https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-21253</a>
</li>
</ul>
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