SUSE-SU-2025:20523-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2025-07-31 09:41 - Updated: 2026-09-20 18:14
Summary
Security update for coreutils
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for coreutils
Description of the patch: This update for coreutils fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-5278: Fixed heap buffer under-read ledaing to a crash or leak sensitive data (bsc#1243767)
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-405
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2025-5278
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.0:coreutils-0:9.4-5.1.aarch64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.0:coreutils-0:9.4-5.1.s390x —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.0:coreutils-0:9.4-5.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate
References
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