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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2025:01760-1 important: slurm permission handling issue

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2025
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A crucial security patch for openSUSE addressing a slurm vulnerability concerning access control within the accounting framework.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for slurm 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 important permission issue openSUSE slurm accounting system

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-2025-1760=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1760=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64)

* slurm-munge-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-slurmdbd-debuginfo-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-pam_slurm-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-sql-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-config-man-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* libslurm36-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-doc-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-sview-debuginfo-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-torque-debuginfo-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-plugins-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-devel-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-debugsource-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-seff-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-webdoc-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-auth-none-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-torque-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-node-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* perl-slurm-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-slurmdbd-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-auth-none-debuginfo-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* libnss_slurm2-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-munge-debuginfo-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-debuginfo-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

* slurm-config-20.11.9-150300.4.15.1

*...

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-2025:01760-1
Release Date: 2025-05-29T14:54:19Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

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security advisory important permission issue openSUSE slurm accounting system

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