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SUSE: 2025:02245-2 high: gnome-shell UI rendering vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 8, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
An important patch from SUSE addresses a serious vulnerability in systemd, fixing a race condition that could potentially allow local users to gain access to core dumps.
* bsc#1242827 * bsc#1243935 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-4598

Summary

## This update for systemd fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-4598: Fixed race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a SUID program and gain read access to the resulting core dump (bsc#1243935). Other bugfixes: * logs-show: get timestamp and boot ID only when necessary (bsc#1242827). ## 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-2025-2244=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2244=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-2244=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-2244=1 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE access issue systemd core dump

References

* bsc#1242827

* bsc#1243935

Cross-

* CVE-2025-4598

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-4598 ( SUSE ): 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2025-4598 ( NVD ): 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be

installed.

##

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02244-1
Release Date: 2025-07-08T08:44:27Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE access issue systemd core dump

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