In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: mhi: fix potential memory leak in ath11k_mhi_register() mhi_alloc_controller() allocates a memory space for mhi_ctrl. When gets some error, mhi_ctrl should be freed with mhi_free_controller(). But when ath11k_mhi_read_addr_from_dt() fails, the function returns without calling mhi_free_controller(), which will lead to a memory leak. We can fix it by calling mhi_free_controller() when ath11k_mhi_read_addr_from_dt() fails.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03615-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2022-49138: Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix checking conn for le_conn_complete_evt (bsc#1238160).
    - CVE-2022-50233: Bluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name} (bsc#1246968).
    - CVE-2022-50252: igb: Do not free q_vector unless new one was allocated (bsc#1249846).
    - CVE-2022-50409: net: If sock is dead do not access sock's sk_wq in sk_stream_wait_memory (bsc#1250392).
    - CVE-2023-53178: mm: fix zswap writeback race condition (bsc#1249827).
    - CVE-2023-53257: wifi: mac80211: check S1G action frame size (bsc#1249869).
    - CVE-2023-53321: wifi: mac80211_hwsim: drop short frames (bsc#1250313).
    - CVE-2023-53438: x86/MCE: Always save CS register on AMD Zen IF Poison errors (bsc#1250180).
    - CVE-2025-37738: ext4: ignore xattrs past end (bsc#1242846).
    - CVE-2025-37958: mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry (bsc#1243539).
    - CVE-2025-38014: dmaengine: idxd: Refactor remove call with idxd_cleanup() helper (bsc#1244732).
    - CVE-2025-38111: net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds read/write access (bsc#1245666).
    - CVE-2025-38380: i2c/designware: Fix an initialization issue (bsc#1247028).
    - CVE-2025-38488: smb: client: fix use-after-free in crypt_message when using async crypto (bsc#1247239).
    - CVE-2025-38553: net/sched: Restrict conditions for adding duplicating netems to qdisc tree     (bsc#1248255).
    - CVE-2025-38572: ipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment() (bsc#1248399).
    - CVE-2025-38659: gfs2: No more self recovery (bsc#1248639).
    - CVE-2025-38664: ice: Fix a null pointer dereference in ice_copy_and_init_pkg() (bsc#1248628).
    - CVE-2025-38678: netfilter: nf_tables: reject duplicate device on updates (bsc#1249126).
    - CVE-2025-38685: fbdev: Fix vmalloc out-of-bounds write in fast_imageblit (bsc#1249220).
    - CVE-2025-38706: ASoC: core: Check for rtd == NULL in snd_soc_remove_pcm_runtime() (bsc#1249195).
    - CVE-2025-38713: hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc() (bsc#1249200).
    - CVE-2025-38734: net/smc: fix UAF on smcsk after smc_listen_out() (bsc#1249324).
    - CVE-2025-39691: fs/buffer: fix use-after-free when call bh_read() helper (bsc#1249374).
    - CVE-2025-39703: net, hsr: reject HSR frame if skb can't hold tag (bsc#1249315).
    - CVE-2025-39726: s390/ism: fix concurrency management in ism_cmd() (bsc#1249266).
    - CVE-2025-39746: wifi: ath10k: shutdown driver when hardware is unreliable (bsc#1249516).
    - CVE-2025-39751: ALSA: hda/ca0132: Fix buffer overflow in add_tuning_control (bsc#1249538).
    - CVE-2025-39790: bus: mhi: host: Detect events pointing to unexpected TREs (bsc#1249548).
    - CVE-2025-39823: KVM: x86: use array_index_nospec with indices that come from guest (bsc#1250002).
    - CVE-2025-39824: HID: asus: fix UAF via HID_CLAIMED_INPUT validation (bsc#1250007).
    - CVE-2025-39860: Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() (bsc#1250247).
    - CVE-2025-39869: dmaengine: ti: edma: Fix memory allocation size for queue_priority_map (bsc#1250406).


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

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - wifi: ath11k: mhi: fix potential memory leak in ath11k_mhi_register() mhi_alloc_controller() allocates a     memory space for mhi_ctrl. When gets some error, mhi_ctrl should be freed with mhi_free_controller(). But     when ath11k_mhi_read_addr_from_dt() fails, the function returns without calling mhi_free_controller(),     which will lead to a memory leak. We can fix it by calling mhi_free_controller() when     ath11k_mhi_read_addr_from_dt() fails. (CVE-2022-50418)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
270837	SUSE SLES15 : Security update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:03615-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
265511	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50418	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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