Security update for expat

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1186-1
Release Date: 2025-04-09T14:28:15Z
Rating: important
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Cross-References:
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:
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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.@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
    • Version info bumped from 9:3:8 to 9:4:8; 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 High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1186=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1186=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-1186=1
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-1186=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2025-1186=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-1186=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-1186=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (x86_64)
    • expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (x86_64)
    • expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (x86_64)
    • expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 (x86_64)
    • expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    • libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    • libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    • libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1
    • libexpat1-2.7.1-150000.3.36.1

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