Recommended update for psmisc

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:2224-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 Business Critical Linux 15-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.2

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for psmisc fixes the following issues:

  • It does no longer list all processes from different private namespaces when fuser is run on an NFS mount. This led to an issue where the wrong processes were terminated in an SAP application cluster environment (bsc#1185208)

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-2224=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2021-2224=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-2224=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • psmisc-debuginfo-23.0-6.16.1
    • psmisc-23.0-6.16.1
    • psmisc-debugsource-23.0-6.16.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (noarch)
    • psmisc-lang-23.0-6.16.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • psmisc-debuginfo-23.0-6.16.1
    • psmisc-23.0-6.16.1
    • psmisc-debugsource-23.0-6.16.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3 (noarch)
    • psmisc-lang-23.0-6.16.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • psmisc-debuginfo-23.0-6.16.1
    • psmisc-23.0-6.16.1
    • psmisc-debugsource-23.0-6.16.1

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