RHSA-2025:22660MediumCVSS 4.7

Red Hat Security Advisory: systemd security update

Published
December 3, 2025
Last Modified
September 1, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-4598 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-4598 — systemd-coredump: race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a SUID program and gain read access to the resulting core dump

🎯 Affected products162

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • rhel-net-naming-sysattrs-0:252-55.el9_7.7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-0:252-55.el9_7.7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-0:252-55.el9_7.7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-0:252-55.el9_7.7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-0:252-55.el9_7.7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-0:252-55.el9_7.7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-0:252-55.el9_7.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-boot-unsigned-0:252-55.el9_7.7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-boot-unsigned-0:252-55.el9_7.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-boot-unsigned-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-boot-unsigned-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-boot-unsigned-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-boot-unsigned-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-0:252-55.el9_7.7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-0:252-55.el9_7.7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-0:252-55.el9_7.7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-0:252-55.el9_7.7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-0:252-55.el9_7.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • systemd-container-debuginfo-0:252-55.el9_7.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: This issue can be mitigated by disabling the capability of the system to generate a coredump for SUID binaries. The perform that, the following command can be ran as `root` user: ~~~ echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable ~~~ While this mitigates this vulnerability while it's not possible to update the systemd package, it disables the capability of analyzing crashes for such binaries.

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