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Mageia 9: 2025-0129 moderate security issue with atop denial of service

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2025
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Users in the area may take advantage of atop versions prior to 2.11.0, resulting in potential Denial of Service or other unintended consequences. Recommended remedy provided in the notice.
atop through 2.11.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (e.g., assertion failure and application exit) or possibly have unspecified other impact by running certain type...

Summary

atop through 2.11.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (e.g., assertion failure and application exit) or possibly have unspecified other impact by running certain types of unprivileged processes while a different user runs atop. (CVE-2025-31160)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34139

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/26/2

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/26/3

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- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485980

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477057

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/29/1

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- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00054.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-31160

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service local users Mageia application exit atop

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/atop-2.8.1-1.1.mga9

Publication date: 10 Apr 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0129.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-31160

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service local users Mageia application exit atop

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