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SUSE 15.6 Important Advisory: procps segmentation fault exploit

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2025
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SUSE has released an important security patch for procps, addressing segmentation violations triggered by an integer overflow vulnerability.
* bsc#1214290 * bsc#1236842 Cross-References: * CVE-2023-4016

Summary

## This update for procps fixes the following issues: * Integer overflow due to incomplete fix for CVE-2023-4016 can lead to segmentation fault in ps command when pid argument has a leading space (bsc#1236842, bsc#1214290). ## 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 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-741=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-741=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-741=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-741=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

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Topics Covered

security advisory update software update important integer overflow SUSE procps exploits segmentation fault important severity

References

* bsc#1214290

* bsc#1236842

Cross-

* CVE-2023-4016

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2023-4016 ( SUSE ): 2.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2023-4016 ( NVD ): 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0741-1
Release Date: 2025-02-28T10:17:02Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory update software update important integer overflow SUSE procps exploits segmentation fault important severity

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