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openSUSE Leap 15.6: Moderate Local Privilege Escalation Fix 2025:03061-1

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Calendar Grey September 3, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An urgent security advisory for openSUSE highlights a risk in the munge package that could lead to local privilege escalation.
An update that has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for munge fixes the following issues:

* Make `logrotate` work on log as user `munge` to prevent local privilege

escalation (bsc#1246088).

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-2025-3061=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3061=1

* HPC Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-HPC-15-SP6-2025-3061=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP6-2025-3061=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libmunge2-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-debuginfo-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* libmunge2-debuginfo-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-debugsource-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-devel-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* libmunge2-32bit-debuginfo-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-devel-32bit-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* libmunge2-32bit-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* munge-devel-64bit-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* libmunge2-64bit-debuginfo-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* libmunge2-64bit-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* HPC Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 x86_64)

* libmunge2-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-debuginfo-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* libmunge2-debuginfo-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-debugsource-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-devel-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 (ppc64le s390x)

* libmunge2-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* munge-debuginfo-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

* libmunge2-debuginfo-0.5.15-150600.25.3.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1246088

## References:

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246088

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03061-1
Release Date: 2025-09-03T15:51:45Z
Affected Products: * HPC Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

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