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SUSE Linux Micro 6.0: dpkg Moderate DoS Issue 2025:20562-1 CVE-2025-6297

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
This notice addresses a medium level concern regarding rpm on RedHat which impacts access control resulting in possible Denial of Service.
* bsc#1245573 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-6297

Summary

## This update for dpkg fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-6297: Fixed improper sanitization of directory permissions leading to DoS via disk quota exhaustion due to files left behind on cleanup (bsc#1245573) ## 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: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-424=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64) * update-alternatives-1.22.0-2.1 * update-alternatives-debuginfo-1.22.0-2.1 * update-alternatives-debugsource-1.22.0-2.1

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References

* bsc#1245573

Cross-

* CVE-2025-6297

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-6297 ( SUSE ): 6.7

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

* CVE-2025-6297 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2025-6297 ( NVD ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Micro 6.0

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6297.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245573

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20562-1
Release Date: 2025-08-20T11:43:20Z
Rating: moderate

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