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openSUSE Leap 15.4: 2025:0801-1 moderate: pcp issue fix

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2025
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SUSE releases a targeted security patch for pcp that resolves CVE-2023-6917, complete with detailed update guidelines.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for pcp fixes the following issues:

* Version upgrade 6.2.0 (bsc#1217826, PED#8192, CVE-2023-6917).

* Performance CoPilot 6 is not starting due to missing pmlogger_daily.timer

(bsc#1222815).

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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 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-801=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-801=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-801=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-801=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2025-801=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* perl-PCP-LogSummary-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-system-tools-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* perl-PCP-PMDA-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-devel-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-logger-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-cifs-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-sendmail-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-hacluster-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-shping-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* libpcp_mmv1-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* libpcp_trace2-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-cifs-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-cisco-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-gui-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-hacluster-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-mailq-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-debugsource-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* libpcp3-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-mounts-debuginfo-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-apache-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-summary-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* pcp-pmda-weblog-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

* perl-PCP-PMDA-6.2.0-150400.5.12.3

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1217826

* bsc#1222815

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6917.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217826

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222815

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0801-1
Release Date: 2025-03-06T14:04:47Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

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