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openSUSE: Linux Kernel Important Update for CVE-2025-21772, CVE-2025-22115

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Urgent openSUSE upgrade released to tackle significant Linux Kernel vulnerabilities, providing security enhancements and installation guidelines.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 6.4.0-150600_23_38 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

* CVE-2025-22115: btrfs: fix block group refcount race in

btrfs_create_pending_block_groups() (bsc#1241579).

* CVE-2025-21772: partitions: mac: fix handling of bogus partition table

(bsc#1238912).

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 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2442=1 SUSE-2025-2441=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP6-2025-2442=1 SUSE-SLE-

Module-Live-Patching-15-SP6-2025-2441=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_38-default-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_8-debugsource-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_9-debugsource-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_38-default-debuginfo-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_42-default-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_42-default-debuginfo-3-150600.2.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_38-default-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_8-debugsource-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_9-debugsource-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_38-default-debuginfo-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_42-default-3-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_42-default-debuginfo-3-150600.2.1

References

* bsc#1238912

* bsc#1241579

* bsc#1244337

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21772.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22115.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238912

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241579

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244337

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02442-1
Release Date: 2025-07-21T12:34:23Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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