Bug 2369247

Summary: CVE-2025-4598 systemd: race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a SUID program and gain read access to the resulting core dump [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 42CC: daan.j.demeyer, fedoraproject, lnykryn, msekleta, suraj.ghimire7, systemd-maint, yuwatana, zbyszek
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["bd2ded54-c272-4058-8b39-025fb1a29f1c"]}
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Description Marco Benatto 2025-05-29 19:19:39 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369242

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2025-05-29 19:56:42 UTC
FEDORA-2025-99055e8fe5 (systemd-257.6-1.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-99055e8fe5

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2025-05-30 02:22:08 UTC
FEDORA-2025-99055e8fe5 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-99055e8fe5`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-99055e8fe5

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2025-06-01 01:23:23 UTC
FEDORA-2025-99055e8fe5 (systemd-257.6-1.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.