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    <h1>Recommended update for autofs</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-RU-2025:20927-1</td>
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            <th>Release Date:</th>
            <td>2025-10-31T16:32:16Z</td>
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>critical</td>
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            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246612">bsc#1246612</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249966">bsc#1249966</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                </ul>
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
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                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0</li>
                    
                </ul>
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    <p>An update that has two fixes can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>This update for autofs contains the following fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Link against ldap.so instead of ldap_r.so; the former now provides
  thread-safety and the latter is a symlink which may not exist. (bsc#1249966)</li>
<li>
<p>drop previous patch now unnecessary.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix xmlStructuredErrorFunc callback parameter patch (bsc#1246612) to account for:</p>
</li>
<li>d2feac6784b6 autofs-5.1.6 - make autofs.a a shared library</li>
<li>bcd8e1b642e9 autofs-5.0.7 - use LIBS for link libraries</li>
</ul>



    

    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE  update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
    </p>
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            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-8=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-8=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
    </ul>

    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>autofs-debuginfo-5.1.9-160000.3.1</li>
                        
                            <li>autofs-debugsource-5.1.9-160000.3.1</li>
                        
                            <li>autofs-5.1.9-160000.3.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0 (ppc64le x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>autofs-debuginfo-5.1.9-160000.3.1</li>
                        
                            <li>autofs-debugsource-5.1.9-160000.3.1</li>
                        
                            <li>autofs-5.1.9-160000.3.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246612">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246612</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249966">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249966</a>
                    </li>
                
            
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