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openSUSE: 2025:02019-1 important: systemd privilege escalation fix

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Essential patch for Fedora fixing significant vulnerabilities in NetworkManager to enhance security and performance. Apply without delay.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has three security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for systemd fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-4598: Race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a SUID

program and gain read access to the resulting core dump (bsc#1243935).

* CVE-2023-26604: Privilege escalation via the less pager (bsc#1208958).

* CVE-2022-4415: systemd-coredump was not respecting fs.suid_dumpable kernel

setting (bsc#1205000).

Other bugfixes:

* clarify passno and noauto combination in /etc/fstab (bsc#1211725)

* handle -EINTR return from bus_poll() (bsc#1215241)

* /usr/ should never be unmounted regardless of HAVE_SPLIT_USR or not

(bsc#1211576)

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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-2025-2019=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-2019=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-2019=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-2019=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-2019=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2025-2019=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-2019=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-2019=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* systemd-mini-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-container-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-coredump-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* libudev-mini1-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* udev-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* libsystemd0-mini-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-mini-container-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* nss-myhostname-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-journal-remote-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-network-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* nss-resolve-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* nss-mymachines-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-doc-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-portable-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-mini-container-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-mini-debugsource-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* udev-mini-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* nss-systemd-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* libudev1-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-mini-246.16-150300.7.60.1

* systemd-coredump-debuginfo-246.16-150300.7.60.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1205000

* bsc#1208958

* bsc#1211576

* bsc#1211725

* bsc#1215241

* bsc#1243935

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4415.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-26604.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4598.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205000

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208958

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211576

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211725

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215241

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243935

Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02019-1
Release Date: 2025-06-19T07:58:06Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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