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SUSE: Munge Local Escalation Moderate Threat Advisory 2025:03061-1

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Calendar Grey September 3, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
A warning has been released about the munge upgrade, targeting a localized privilege escalation flaw in openSUSE Leap and the HPC Module, noted as moderate severity
* bsc#1246088 Affected Products: * HPC Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6

Summary

## This update for munge fixes the following issues: * Make `logrotate` work on log as user `munge` to prevent local privilege escalation (bsc#1246088). ## 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

References

* bsc#1246088

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

An update that has one security fix can now be installed.

##

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

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03061-1
Release Date: 2025-09-03T15:51:45Z
Rating: moderate

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