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<h1>Security update for expat</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2025:03239-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-09-16T17:04:05Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<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-12507">jsc#PED-12507</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<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>
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<th>CVSS scores:</th>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP7</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7</li>
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<p>An update that solves one vulnerability and contains one feature can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for expat fixes the following issues:</p>
<p>expat was updated to version 2.7.1:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>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:</p>
<pre><code> - XML_GetCurrentByteCount
- XML_GetCurrentByteIndex
- XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber
- XML_GetCurrentLineNumber
- XML_GetInputContext
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Other changes:</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix printf format specifiers for 32bit Emscripten</p>
</li>
<li>docs: Promote OpenSSF Best Practices self-certification</li>
<li>tests/benchmark: Resolve mistaken double close</li>
<li>Address compiler warnings</li>
<li>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</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Version update to 2.7.0 (CVE-2024-8176, bsc#1239618, jsc#PED-12507)</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Security fixes:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>CVE-2024-8176 -- Fix crash from chaining a large number of
entities caused by stack overflow by resolving use of recursion,
for all three uses of entities: - general entities in character data
("<e>&g1;</e>") - general entities in attribute values
("<e k1='&g1;'/>") - parameter entities ("%p1;")</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Known impact is (reliable and easy) denial of service:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
(Base Score: 7.5, Temporal Score: 7.2)
Please note that a layer of compression around XML can
significantly reduce the minimum attack payload size.</p>
<ul>
<li>Other changes:</li>
<li>docs: Add missing documentation of error code XML_ERROR_NOT_STARTED
that was introduced with 2.6.4</li>
<li>docs: Document need for C++11 compiler for use from C++</li>
<li>Address Cppcheck warnings</li>
<li>
<p>Mass-migrate links from http:// to https://</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Document changes since the previous release</p>
</li>
<li>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</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>
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<li class="list-group-item">
Basesystem Module 15-SP7
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-3239=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>expat-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</li>
<li>expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</li>
<li>libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</li>
<li>expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</li>
<li>libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</li>
<li>expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150700.3.3.1</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-12507">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12507</a>
</li>
</ul>
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