Summary
The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Security Fix(es):
* systemd-coredump: race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a SUID program and gain read access to the resulting core dump (CVE-2025-4598)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Fixed packages 13
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 9 | rhel-net-naming-sysattrs | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-boot-unsigned | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-container | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-devel | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-journal-remote | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-libs | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-oomd | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-pam | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-resolved | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-rpm-macros | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-udev | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | systemd-ukify | 252-55.el9_7.7.alma.1 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 4.7
Systemd-coredump: race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a suid program and gain read access to the resulting core dump
A vulnerability was found in systemd-coredump. This flaw allows an attacker to force a SUID process to crash and replace it with a non-SUID binary to access the original's privileged process coredump, allowing the attacker to read sensitive data, such as /etc…