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openSUSE Leap 15.3: Kernel Important Security Update 2025:03359-1

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Proceeding to mitigate three critical weaknesses within the openSUSE kernel that impact various products and overall security.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-150300_59_185 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

* CVE-2025-38177: sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent (bsc#1246356).

* CVE-2025-38181: calipso: Fix null-ptr-deref in calipso_req_{set,del}attr()

(bsc#1246001).

* CVE-2025-38498: do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours

mounts (bsc#1247499).

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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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP3-2025-3359=1 SUSE-SLE-

Module-Live-Patching-15-SP3-2025-3360=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3360=1 SUSE-2025-3359=1

Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP3 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_185-default-12-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_182-default-14-150300.2.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP3_Update_51-debugsource-12-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_182-default-14-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP3_Update_50-debugsource-14-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_185-default-12-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_182-default-debuginfo-14-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_185-default-debuginfo-12-150300.2.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_185-preempt-12-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_185-preempt-debuginfo-12-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_182-preempt-debuginfo-14-150300.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_182-preempt-14-150300.2.1

References

* bsc#1246001

* bsc#1246356

* bsc#1247499

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38177.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38181.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38498.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246001

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246356

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247499

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03359-1
Release Date: 2025-09-25T22:18:29Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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