Security update for afterburn

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3784-1
Release Date: 2025-10-24T13:28:17Z
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2022-24713 ( SUSE ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2022-24713 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2024-12224 ( SUSE ): 2.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • CVE-2024-12224 ( SUSE ): 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2024-12224 ( NVD ): 5.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  • CVE-2025-3416 ( SUSE ): 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • CVE-2025-3416 ( SUSE ): 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2025-3416 ( NVD ): 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2025-5791 ( SUSE ): 8.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • CVE-2025-5791 ( SUSE ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2025-5791 ( NVD ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for afterburn fixes the following issues:

Update to version 5.9.0.git21.a73f509.

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2022-24713: regex: no proper complexity limitation when parsing untrusted regular expressions with large repetitions on empty sub-expressions can lead to excessive resource consumption and denial of service (bsc#1196972).
  • CVE-2024-12224: idna: acceptance of Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII output may lead to incorrect hostname comparisons and incorrect URL parsing (bsc#1243850).
  • CVE-2025-5791: users: root user being appended to group listings whenever listing does not have exactly 1024 groups can lead to privilege escalation when information is used for access control (bsc#1244199).
  • CVE-2025-3416: openssl: passing of Some(...) value as properties argument to Md::fetch or Cipher::fetch can lead to use-after-free (bsc#1242665).

Other issues fixed:

  • Fixed in version 5.9.0.git21.a73f509:
  • cargo: update dependencies
  • microsoft/azure: Add XML attribute alias for serde-xml-rs Fedora compat
  • microsoft/azure: Fix SharedConfig parsing of XML attributes
  • microsoft/azure: Mock goalstate.SharedConfig output in tests
  • providers/azure: switch SSH key retrieval from certs endpoint to IMDS as azure stopped providing keys in the old one (bsc#1250471).
  • upcloud: implement UpCloud provider

  • Update several build dependencies

  • Fixed in version 5.9.0:

  • cargo: update dependencies
  • dracut: Return 255 in module-setup
  • oraclecloud: add release note and move base URL to constant
  • oraclecloud: implement oraclecloud provider

  • Update several build dependencies

  • Fixed in version 5.8.2:

  • cargo: update dependencies

  • packit: add initial support

  • Fixed in version 5.7.0.git103.bae893c:

  • proxmoxve: Add more context to log messages.
  • proxmoxve: Remove unneeded fields
  • proxmoxve: Add tests for static network configuration from cloud-init.
  • proxmoxve: Add support for static network configuration from cloud-init.
  • providers/openstack: ignore ec2 metadata if not present
  • proxmox: use noop provider if no configdrive

  • Update several build dependencies

  • Fixed in version 5.7.0:

  • cargo: update dependencies
  • dhcp: replace dbus_proxy with proxy, and zbus traits
  • providers/hetzner: private ipv4 addresses in attributes
  • openstack: Document the two platforms
  • microsoft/azure: allow empty certificate chain in PKCS12 file
  • proxmoxve: implement proxmoxve provider
  • providers/hetzner: fix duplicate attribute prefix
  • lint: silence deadcode warnings
  • lint: address latest lint's from msrv update
  • cargo: update msrv to 1.75
  • providers: Add "akamai" provider
  • providers/vmware: add missing public functions for non-amd64
  • providers/vmware: Process guestinfo.metadata netplan configuration
  • kubevirt: Run afterburn-hostname service
  • providers: add support for scaleway
  • Move away from deprecated users to uzers
  • providers/hetzner: add support for Hetzner Cloud
  • cargo: update MSRV to 1.71
  • cargo: specify required features for nix dependency
  • openstack: Add attribute OPENSTACK_INSTANCE_UUID
  • cargo: allow openssl 0.10.46
  • build-sys: Use new tier = 2 for cargo-vendor-filterer
  • cargo: fix minimum version of openssl crate
  • microsoft/crypto/mod: replace deprecated function parse with parse2
  • cli: switch to clap derive
  • cli: add descriptive value names for option arguments in --help
  • cli: have clap require exactly one of --cmdline/--provider
  • providers/*: move endpoint mocking into retry::Client
  • retry/client: move URL parsing into helper function
  • providers/microsoft: import crate::retry
  • providers/microsoft: use stored client for all fetches
  • providers/packet: use stored client for boot checkin
  • initrd: remember to write trailing newline to network kargs file
  • util: drop obsolete "OEM" terminology
  • Inline variables into format strings

  • Update several build dependencies

  • Fixed in version 5.4.1:

  • cargo: add configuration for cargo-vendor-filterer
  • util: support DHCP option lookup from NetworkManager
  • util: factor out retries of DHCP option lookup
  • util: refactor DHCP option query helper into an enum
  • util: move dns_lease_key_lookup() to a separate module
  • cargo: update MSRV to 1.66
  • cargo: update all packages to fix build error
  • cargo: continue to support openssh-keys 0.5
  • cargo: drop serde_derive crate in favor of serde derive feature
  • cargo: use consistent declaration syntax for slog dependency
  • cargo: drop unused dependencies
  • cargo: continue to support base64 0.13
  • cargo: continue to support mailparse 0.13.8
  • cargo: continue to support clap 3.1
  • cargo: stop enabling LTO in release builds
  • providers/ibmcloud: avoid error if an ssh key not found in metadata
  • systemd: add explicit ordering, after multi-user.target
  • network: fix clippy 1.63.0 lints
  • cargo: allow serde_yaml 0.8
  • cargo: update version ranges for post-1.x deps
  • providers: Use inline format! in a few places
  • *: bump MSRV to 1.58.0
  • cargo: update clap to 3.2.5
  • copr: mark git checkout as safe
  • providers/aws: expose instance availability-zone-id as AWS_AVAILABILITY_ZONE_ID

  • Update several build dependencies

  • Fixed in version 5.3.0:

  • systemd: enable sshkeys on Power VS platform
  • network: Encode information for systemd-networkd-wait-online
  • cargo: update to clap 3.1
  • cargo: enable clap wrap_help feature
  • cli: run clap tests
  • cli: avoid deprecated clap constructs
  • cargo: update to clap 3.0
  • cli: use clap mechanism to require exp subcommand
  • cargo: declare MSRV in Cargo.toml
  • cargo: update to Rust 2021; bump MSRV to 1.56.0
  • copr: abort if specfile fetch fails
  • providers/aws: add AWS_IPV6 attribute
  • providers/aws: bump metadata version to 2021-01-03
  • kubevirt: Add KubeVirt platform support
  • *.service: add/update Documentation field
  • aws/mock_tests: explicitly drop mocks before resetting
  • aws/mock_tests: split out IMDS tests
  • aws/mock_tests: factor out map building
  • *: use RemainAfterExit on all oneshot services
  • Update several build dependencies

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 5.5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-3784=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • afterburn-debuginfo-5.9.0.git21.a73f509-150500.3.3.1
    • afterburn-debugsource-5.9.0.git21.a73f509-150500.3.3.1
    • afterburn-5.9.0.git21.a73f509-150500.3.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (noarch)
    • afterburn-dracut-5.9.0.git21.a73f509-150500.3.3.1

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