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SUSE 15 SP6/SUDE: 2025:02177-1 important: sudo local privilege escalation

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has published a significant patch for sudo that resolves a pair of local privilege escalation flaws.
* bsc#1245274 * bsc#1245275 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-32462

Summary

## This update for sudo fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-32462: Fixed a possible local privilege escalation via the --host option (bsc#1245274). * CVE-2025-32463: Fixed a possible local privilege Escalation via chroot option (bsc#1245275). ## 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-2025-2177=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2177=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-2177=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-2177=1 ## Package List: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

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References

* bsc#1245274

* bsc#1245275

Cross-

* CVE-2025-32462

* CVE-2025-32463

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-32462 ( SUSE ): 7.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-32462 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-32463 ( SUSE ): 7.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-32463 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02177-1
Release Date: 2025-06-30T17:53:19Z
Rating: important

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