[Medium] Patch systemd for CVE-2025-4598

[akhila-guruju]

Merge Checklist

All boxes should be checked before merging the PR (just tick any boxes which don't apply to this PR)

• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
• All package sources are available
• cgmanifest files are up-to-date and sorted (./cgmanifest.json, ./toolkit/scripts/toolchain/cgmanifest.json, .github/workflows/cgmanifest.json)
• LICENSE-MAP files are up-to-date (./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/data/licenses.json, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSES-MAP.md, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSE-EXCEPTIONS.PHOTON)
• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

Patch systemd for CVE-2025-4598
For CVE-2025-4598:
Patch Modified: Yes

• Modified the file man/version-info.xml by adding XML id (from upstream), because the file systemd-coredump.xml introduced new id in upstream patch. Without this modification the build fails. Except this, every file change matches with upstream patch.

Taken patch systemd/systemd-stable@254ab8d from upstream. NIST/Debian mentions here https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-4598 that it fixes this CVE.

Change Log

• new file: SPECS/systemd/CVE-2025-4598.patch
• modified: SPECS/systemd/systemd.spec
• modified: SPECS-SIGNED/systemd-boot-signed/systemd-boot-signed.spec (Bump release to match systemd spec and to pass PR check)

Does this affect the toolchain?

NO

Associated issues

• #xxxx

Links to CVEs

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4598

Test Methodology

• Local build
• ptests are failing before applying patch
• Patch applies cleanly
  

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