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openSUSE 15.3, 15.6: 2025:01756-1 important: slurm permission issue

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2025
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A security update addressing a permission handling issue in slurm for openSUSE 15.3 and 15.6. Immediate update is necessary.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for slurm_22_05 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-43904: an issue with permission handling for Coordinators within

the accounting system allowed Coordinators to promote a user to

Administrator (bsc#1243666).

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update important permission issue openSUSE slurm

Patch

## 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:

* openSUSE Leap 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-1756=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-1756=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1756=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-1756=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-1756=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* slurm_22_05-torque-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-hdf5-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-torque-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* libnss_slurm2_22_05-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-debugsource-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-hdf5-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-testsuite-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-lua-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-auth-none-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* libslurm38-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-rest-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-node-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-node-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-auth-none-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* libnss_slurm2_22_05-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-rest-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-devel-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-pam_slurm-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

* slurm_22_05-plugins-debuginfo-22.05.11-150300.7.12.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1243666

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-43904.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243666

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:01756-1
Release Date: 2025-05-29T14:39:19Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

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