The handle_invept function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 through 3.15 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a single-context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT pointer.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-001598 advisory.

    The handle_invept function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 through 3.15 allows privileged     KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a single-     context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT pointer.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002862 advisory.

    The handle_invept function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 through 3.15 allows privileged     KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a single-     context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT pointer.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002567 advisory.

    The handle_invept function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 through 3.15 allows privileged     KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a single-     context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT pointer.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-15649: net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux     kernel allowed local users to gain privileges via     crafted system calls that trigger mishandling of     packet_fanout data structures, because of a race     condition (involving fanout_add and packet_do_bind) that     leads to a use-after-free, a different vulnerability     than CVE-2017-6346 (bnc#1064388).

  - CVE-2015-9004: kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel     mishandled counter grouping, which allowed local users     to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to     the perf_pmu_register and perf_event_open functions     (bnc#1037306).

  - CVE-2016-10229: udp.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote     attackers to execute arbitrary code via UDP traffic that     triggers an unsafe second checksum calculation during     execution of a recv system call with the MSG_PEEK flag     (bnc#1032268).

  - CVE-2016-9604: The handling of keyrings starting with     '.' in KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING, which could have     allowed local users to manipulate privileged keyrings,     was fixed (bsc#1035576)

  - CVE-2017-1000363: Linux drivers/char/lp.c Out-of-Bounds     Write. Due to a missing bounds check, and the fact that     parport_ptr integer is static, a 'secure boot' kernel     command line adversary (can happen due to bootloader     vulns, e.g. Google Nexus 6's CVE-2016-10277, where due     to a vulnerability the adversary has partial control     over the command line) can overflow the parport_nr array     in the following code, by appending many (>LP_NO)     'lp=none' arguments to the command line (bnc#1039456).

  - CVE-2017-1000365: The Linux Kernel imposes a size     restriction on the arguments and environmental strings     passed through RLIMIT_STACK/RLIM_INFINITY (1/4 of the     size), but did not take the argument and environment     pointers into account, which allowed attackers to bypass     this limitation. (bnc#1039354).

  - CVE-2017-1000380: sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel     is vulnerable to a data race in the ALSA /dev/snd/timer     driver resulting in local users being able to read     information belonging to other users, i.e.,     uninitialized memory contents may be disclosed when a     read and an ioctl happen at the same time (bnc#1044125).

  - CVE-2017-10661: Race condition in fs/timerfd.c in the     Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or     cause a denial of service (list corruption or     use-after-free) via simultaneous file-descriptor     operations that leverage improper might_cancel queueing     (bnc#1053152).

  - CVE-2017-11176: The mq_notify function in the Linux     kernel did not set the sock pointer to NULL upon entry     into the retry logic. During a user-space close of a     Netlink socket, it allowed attackers to cause a denial     of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified     other impact (bnc#1048275).

  - CVE-2017-12153: A security flaw was discovered in the     nl80211_set_rekey_data() function in     net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel This function     did not check whether the required attributes are     present in a Netlink request. This request can be issued     by a user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and may     result in a NULL pointer dereference and system crash     (bnc#1058410).

  - CVE-2017-12154: The prepare_vmcs02 function in     arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure     that the 'CR8-load exiting' and 'CR8-store exiting' L0     vmcs02 controls exist in cases where L1 omits the 'use     TPR shadow' vmcs12 control, which allowed KVM L2 guest     OS users to obtain read and write access to the hardware     CR8 register (bnc#1058507).

  - CVE-2017-12762: In /drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c: A     user-controlled buffer is copied into a local buffer of     constant size using strcpy without a length check which     can cause a buffer overflow. (bnc#1053148).

  - CVE-2017-13080: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2)     allowed reinstallation of the Group Temporal Key (GTK)     during the group key handshake, allowing an attacker     within radio range to replay frames from access points     to clients (bnc#1063667).

  - CVE-2017-14051: An integer overflow in the     qla2x00_sysfs_write_optrom_ctl function in     drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory     corruption and system crash) by leveraging root access     (bnc#1056588).

  - CVE-2017-14106: The tcp_disconnect function in     net/ipv4/tcp.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (__tcp_select_window     divide-by-zero error and system crash) by triggering a     disconnect within a certain tcp_recvmsg code path     (bnc#1056982).

  - CVE-2017-14140: The move_pages system call in     mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel doesn't check the     effective uid of the target process, enabling a local     attacker to learn the memory layout of a setuid     executable despite ASLR (bnc#1057179).

  - CVE-2017-15265: Use-after-free vulnerability in the     Linux kernel allowed local users to have unspecified     impact via vectors related to /dev/snd/seq     (bnc#1062520).

  - CVE-2017-15274: security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux     kernel did not consider the case of a NULL payload in     conjunction with a nonzero length value, which allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via a crafted add_key or keyctl     system call, a different vulnerability than     CVE-2017-12192 (bnc#1045327).

  - CVE-2017-2647: The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)     via vectors involving a NULL value for a certain match     field, related to the keyring_search_iterator function     in keyring.c (bnc#1030593).

  - CVE-2017-6951: The keyring_search_aux function in     security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via a request_key system call for     the 'dead' type (bnc#1029850).

  - CVE-2017-7482: A potential memory corruption was fixed     in decoding of krb5 principals in the kernels kerberos     handling. (bnc#1046107).

  - CVE-2017-7487: The ipxitf_ioctl function in     net/ipx/af_ipx.c in the Linux kernel mishandled     reference counts, which allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a failed SIOCGIFADDR ioctl     call for an IPX interface (bnc#1038879).

  - CVE-2017-7518: The Linux kernel was vulnerable to an     incorrect debug exception(#DB) error. It could occur     while emulating a syscall instruction and potentially     lead to guest privilege escalation. (bsc#1045922).

  - CVE-2017-7541: The brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx function in     drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg8021     1.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) or     possibly gain privileges via a crafted NL80211_CMD_FRAME     Netlink packet (bnc#1049645).

  - CVE-2017-7542: The ip6_find_1stfragopt function in     net/ipv6/output_core.c in the Linux kernel allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and     infinite loop) by leveraging the ability to open a raw     socket (bnc#1049882).

  - CVE-2017-7889: The mm subsystem in the Linux kernel did     not properly enforce the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM protection     mechanism, which allowed local users to read or write to     kernel memory locations in the first megabyte (and     bypass slab-allocation access restrictions) via an     application that opens the /dev/mem file, related to     arch/x86/mm/init.c and drivers/char/mem.c (bnc#1034405).

  - CVE-2017-8106: The handle_invept function in     arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel 3.12 allowed     privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via     a single-context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT     pointer (bnc#1035877).

  - CVE-2017-8831: The saa7164_bus_get function in     drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-bus.c in the Linux     kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by changing a certain     sequence-number value, aka a 'double fetch'     vulnerability (bnc#1037994).

  - CVE-2017-8890: The inet_csk_clone_lock function in     net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c in the Linux kernel     allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (double     free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by     leveraging use of the accept system call (bnc#1038544).

  - CVE-2017-8924: The edge_bulk_in_callback function in     drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c in the Linux kernel allowed     local users to obtain sensitive information (in the     dmesg ringbuffer and syslog) from uninitialized kernel     memory by using a crafted USB device (posing as an io_ti     USB serial device) to trigger an integer underflow     (bnc#1037182 bsc#1038982).

  - CVE-2017-8925: The omninet_open function in     drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (tty     exhaustion) by leveraging reference count mishandling     (bnc#1037183 bsc#1038981).

  - CVE-2017-9074: The IPv6 fragmentation implementation in     the Linux kernel did not consider that the nexthdr field     may be associated with an invalid option, which allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     read and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact     via crafted socket and send system calls (bnc#1039882).

  - CVE-2017-9075: The sctp_v6_create_accept_sk function in     net/sctp/ipv6.c in the Linux kernel mishandled     inheritance, which allowed local users to cause a denial     of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via     crafted system calls, a related issue to CVE-2017-8890     (bnc#1039883).

  - CVE-2017-9076: The dccp_v6_request_recv_sock function in     net/dccp/ipv6.c in the Linux kernel mishandled     inheritance, which allowed local users to cause a denial     of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via     crafted system calls, a related issue to CVE-2017-8890     (bnc#1039885).

  - CVE-2017-9077: The tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock function in     net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c in the Linux kernel mishandled     inheritance, which allowed local users to cause a denial     of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via     crafted system calls, a related issue to CVE-2017-8890     (bnc#1040069).

  - CVE-2017-9242: The __ip6_append_data function in     net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel is too late in     checking whether an overwrite of an skb data structure     may occur, which allowed local users to cause a denial     of service (system crash) via crafted system calls     (bnc#1041431).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.74 to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable new/improved features :

  - Improved support for Hyper-V

  - Support for the tcp_westwood TCP scheduling algorithm     The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-8106: The handle_invept function in     arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel allowed     privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via     a single-context INVEPT instruction with a NULL EPT     pointer (bsc#1035877).

  - CVE-2017-6951: The keyring_search_aux function in     security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via a request_key system call for     the 'dead' type. (bsc#1029850).

  - CVE-2017-2647: The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)     via vectors involving a NULL value for a certain match     field, related to the keyring_search_iterator function     in keyring.c. (bsc#1030593)

  - CVE-2016-9604: This fixes handling of keyrings starting     with '.' in KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING, which could     have allowed local users to manipulate privileged     keyrings (bsc#1035576)

  - CVE-2017-7616: Incorrect error handling in the     set_mempolicy and mbind compat syscalls in     mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users     to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack     data by triggering failure of a certain bitmap     operation. (bnc#1033336).

  - CVE-2017-7645: The NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd     subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a long     RPC reply, related to net/sunrpc/svc.c,     fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c, and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c. (bsc#1034670).

  - CVE-2017-7308: The packet_set_ring function in     net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate certain block-size data, which allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (overflow) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted     system calls (bnc#1031579)

  - CVE-2017-2671: The ping_unhash function in     net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel was too late in     obtaining a certain lock and consequently could not     ensure that disconnect function calls are safe, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (panic)     by leveraging access to the protocol value of     IPPROTO_ICMP in a socket system call (bnc#1031003)

  - CVE-2017-7294: The vmw_surface_define_ioctl function in     drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c in the Linux     kernel did not validate addition of certain levels data,     which allowed local users to trigger an integer overflow     and out-of-bounds write, and cause a denial of service     (system hang or crash) or possibly gain privileges, via     a crafted ioctl call for a /dev/dri/renderD* device     (bnc#1031440)

  - CVE-2017-7261: The vmw_surface_define_ioctl function in     drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c in the Linux     kernel did not check for a zero value of certain levels     data, which allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference, and GPF and possibly     panic) via a crafted ioctl call for a /dev/dri/renderD*     device (bnc#1031052)

  - CVE-2017-7187: The sg_ioctl function in     drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer     overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via     a large command size in an SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN ioctl call,     leading to out-of-bounds write access in the sg_write     function (bnc#1030213)

  - CVE-2016-9588: arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel     mismanaged the #BP and #OF exceptions, which allowed     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS     crash) by declining to handle an exception thrown by an     L2 guest (bsc#1015703).

  - CVE-2017-5669: The do_shmat function in ipc/shm.c in the     Linux kernel did not restrict the address calculated by     a certain rounding operation, which allowed local users     to map page zero, and consequently bypass a protection     mechanism that exists for the mmap system call, by     making crafted shmget and shmat system calls in a     privileged context (bnc#1026914).

  - CVE-2016-10200: Race condition in the L2TPv3 IP     Encapsulation feature in the Linux kernel allowed local     users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service     (use-after-free) by making multiple bind system calls     without properly ascertaining whether a socket has the     SOCK_ZAPPED status, related to net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c and     net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c (bnc#1028415)

  - CVE-2016-10208: The ext4_fill_super function in     fs/ext4/super.c in the Linux kernel did not properly     validate meta block groups, which allowed physically     proximate attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read and system crash) via a crafted ext4     image (bnc#1023377).

  - CVE-2017-5897: The ip6gre_err function in     net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote     attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors     involving GRE flags in an IPv6 packet, which trigger an     out-of-bounds access (bsc#1023762).

  - CVE-2017-5986: A race condition in the     sctp_wait_for_sndbuf function in net/sctp/socket.c in     the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial     of service (assertion failure and panic) via a     multithreaded application that peels off an association     in a certain buffer-full state (bsc#1025235).

  - CVE-2017-6074: The dccp_rcv_state_process function in     net/dccp/input.c in the Linux kernel mishandled     DCCP_PKT_REQUEST packet data structures in the LISTEN     state, which allowed local users to obtain root     privileges or cause a denial of service (double free)     via an application that made an IPV6_RECVPKTINFO     setsockopt system call (bnc#1026024)

  - CVE-2016-9191: The cgroup offline implementation in the     Linux kernel mishandled certain drain operations, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system     hang) by leveraging access to a container environment     for executing a crafted application (bnc#1008842)

  - CVE-2017-6348: The hashbin_delete function in     net/irda/irqueue.c in the Linux kernel improperly     managed lock dropping, which allowed local users to     cause a denial of service (deadlock) via crafted     operations on IrDA devices (bnc#1027178).

  - CVE-2016-10044: The aio_mount function in fs/aio.c in     the Linux kernel did not properly restrict execute     access, which made it easier for local users to bypass     intended SELinux W^X policy restrictions, and     consequently gain privileges, via an io_setup system     call (bnc#1023992).

  - CVE-2016-3070: The trace_writeback_dirty_page     implementation in include/trace/events/writeback.h in     the Linux kernel improperly interacts with mm/migrate.c,     which allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly     have unspecified other impact by triggering a certain     page move (bnc#979215).

  - CVE-2016-5243: The tipc_nl_compat_link_dump function in     net/tipc/netlink_compat.c in the Linux kernel did not     properly copy a certain string, which allowed local     users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack     memory by reading a Netlink message (bnc#983212).

  - CVE-2017-6345: The LLC subsystem in the Linux kernel did     not ensure that a certain destructor exists in required     circumstances, which allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (BUG_ON) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via crafted system calls (bnc#1027190)

  - CVE-2017-6346: Race condition in net/packet/af_packet.c     in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a multithreaded application     that made PACKET_FANOUT setsockopt system calls     (bnc#1027189)

  - CVE-2017-6353: net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel did     not properly restrict association peel-off operations     during certain wait states, which allowed local users to     cause a denial of service (invalid unlock and double     free) via a multithreaded application. NOTE: this     vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for     CVE-2017-5986 (bnc#1027066)

  - CVE-2017-5986: Race condition in the     sctp_wait_for_sndbuf function in net/sctp/socket.c in     the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial     of service (assertion failure and panic) via a     multithreaded application that peels off an association     in a certain buffer-full state (bsc#1025235).

  - CVE-2017-6214: The tcp_splice_read function in     net/ipv4/tcp.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop     and soft lockup) via vectors involving a TCP packet with     the URG flag (bnc#1026722)

  - CVE-2016-2117: The atl2_probe function in     drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c in the Linux     kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O, which     allowed remote attackers to obtain sensitive information     from kernel memory by reading packet data (bnc#968697)

  - CVE-2015-1350: The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel     provided an incomplete set of requirements for setattr     operations that underspecifies removing extended     privilege attributes, which allowed local users to cause     a denial of service (capability stripping) via a failed     invocation of a system call, as demonstrated by using     chown to remove a capability from the ping or Wireshark     dumpcap program (bsc#914939).

  - CVE-2016-7117: Use-after-free vulnerability in the
    __sys_recvmmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux     kernel allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary     code via vectors involving a recvmmsg system call that     is mishandled during error processing (bsc#1003077).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
291079	Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-001598)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	medium
287442	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002862)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	medium
287274	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002567)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	medium
104374	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:2920-1) (KRACK) (Stack Clash)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
100320	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:1360-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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