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openSUSE 15.5: SUSE-SU-2023:2988-1 Important: Conmon Security Fix

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2023
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest conmon release tackles critical problems by enhancing memory management and resolving issues related to symbolic link leakage.
This update for conmon fixes the following issues: conmon was updated to version 2.1.7:

Description

This update for conmon fixes the following issues:

conmon was updated to version 2.1.7:

* Bumped go version to 1.19 (bsc#1209307).

Bugfixes:

* Fixed leaking symbolic links in the opt_socket_path directory

* Fixed oom handling issues (bsc#1208737).

* Fixed OOM watcher for cgroupv2 `oom_kill` events

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update patch symbolic link memory handling openSUSE conmon

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE Important update use the SUSE recommended installation

methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-2988=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-2988=1

* Containers Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-15-SP5-2023-2988=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* conmon-debuginfo-2.1.7-150500.9.3.1

* conmon-2.1.7-150500.9.3.1

* Containers Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* conmon-debuginfo-2.1.7-150500.9.3.1

* conmon-2.1.7-150500.9.3.1

References

* #1208737

* #1209307

## References:

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208737

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209307

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:2988-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update patch symbolic link memory handling openSUSE conmon

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