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.@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