In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in .remove() In the (unlikely) event that pm_runtime_get() (disguised as pm_runtime_resume_and_get()) fails, the remove callback returned an error early. The problem with this is that the driver core ignores the error value and continues removing the device. This results in a resource leak. Worse the devm allocated resources are freed and so if a callback of the driver is called later the register mapping is already gone which probably results in a crash.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03614-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2022-50233: Bluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name} (bsc#1246968).
    - CVE-2022-50242: drivers: net: qlcnic: Fix potential memory leak in qlcnic_sriov_init() (bsc#1249696).
    - CVE-2022-50244: cxl: fix possible null-ptr-deref in cxl_pci_init_afu|adapter() (bsc#1249647).
    - CVE-2022-50252: igb: Do not free q_vector unless new one was allocated (bsc#1249846).
    - CVE-2022-50258: wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds()     (bsc#1249947).
    - CVE-2022-50265: kcm: annotate data-races around kcm->rx_wait (bsc#1249744).
    - CVE-2022-50278: PNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev() (bsc#1249715).
    - CVE-2022-50285: mm,hugetlb: take hugetlb_lock before decrementing h->resv_huge_pages (bsc#1249803).
    - CVE-2022-50288: qlcnic: prevent ->dcb use-after-free on qlcnic_dcb_enable() failure (bsc#1249802).
    - CVE-2022-50291: kcm: annotate data-races around kcm->rx_psock (bsc#1249798).
    - CVE-2022-50294: wifi: libertas: fix memory leak in lbs_init_adapter() (bsc#1249799).
    - CVE-2022-50297: wifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present (bsc#1250250).
    - CVE-2022-50304: mm: export bdi_unregister (bsc#1249725).
    - CVE-2022-50311: cxl: Fix refcount leak in cxl_calc_capp_routing (bsc#1249720).
    - CVE-2022-50312: drivers: serial: jsm: fix some leaks in probe (bsc#1249716).
    - CVE-2022-50321: wifi: brcmfmac: fix potential memory leak in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() (bsc#1249706).
    - CVE-2022-50330: crypto: cavium - prevent integer overflow loading firmware (bsc#1249700).
    - CVE-2022-50349: misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media() (bsc#1249920).
    - CVE-2022-50352: net: hns: fix possible memory leak in hnae_ae_register() (bsc#1249922).
    - CVE-2022-50359: media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare() (bsc#1250269).
    - CVE-2022-50365: skbuff: Account for tail adjustment during pull operations (bsc#1250084).
    - CVE-2022-50375: tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: disable dma rx/tx use flags in lpuart_dma_shutdown     (bsc#1250132).
    - CVE-2022-50386: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix user-after-free (bsc#1250301).
    - CVE-2022-50396: net: sched: fix memory leak in tcindex_set_parms (bsc#1250104).
    - CVE-2022-50402: drivers/md/md-bitmap: check the return value of md_bitmap_get_counter() (bsc#1250363).
    - CVE-2022-50405: net/tunnel: wait until all sk_user_data reader finish before releasing the sock     (bsc#1250155).
    - CVE-2022-50406: iomap: iomap: fix memory corruption when recording errors during writeback     (bsc#1250165).
    - CVE-2022-50408: wifi: brcmfmac: fix use-after-free bug in brcmf_netdev_start_xmit() (bsc#1250391).
    - CVE-2022-50409: net: If sock is dead do not access sock's sk_wq in sk_stream_wait_memory (bsc#1250392).
    - CVE-2022-50419: Bluetooth: hci_sysfs: Fix attempting to call device_add multiple times (bsc#1250394).
    - CVE-2023-53148: igb: Do not bring the device up after non-fatal error (bsc#1249842).
    - CVE-2023-53153: wifi: cfg80211: Partial revert 'wifi: cfg80211: Fix use after free for wext'     (bsc#1249877).
    - CVE-2023-53176: serial: 8250: Fix oops for port->pm on uart_change_pm() (bsc#1249991).
    - CVE-2023-53178: mm: zswap: fix missing folio cleanup in writeback race path (bsc#1249827 git-fix).
    - CVE-2023-53199: wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: clean up skbs if ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() fails (bsc#1249683).
    - CVE-2023-53201: RDMA/bnxt_re: wraparound mbox producer index (bsc#1249687).
    - CVE-2023-53226: wifi: mwifiex: Fix oob check condition in mwifiex_process_rx_packet (bsc#1249658).
    - CVE-2023-53248: drm/amdgpu: install stub fence into potential unused fence pointers (bsc#1249779).
    - CVE-2023-53254: drivers: base: cacheinfo: Fix shared_cpu_map changes in event of CPU hotplug     (bsc#1249871).
    - CVE-2023-53272: net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff (bsc#1249917).
    - CVE-2023-53277: wifi: iwl3945: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue (bsc#1249936).
    - CVE-2023-53288: drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe (bsc#1250058).
    - CVE-2023-53298: nfc: fix memory leak of se_io context in nfc_genl_se_io (bsc#1249944).
    - CVE-2023-53302: wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue() (bsc#1249958).
    - CVE-2023-53305: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free (bsc#1250049).
    - CVE-2023-53309: drm/radeon: Fix integer overflow in radeon_cs_parser_init (bsc#1250055).
    - CVE-2023-53317: ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent (bsc#1250081).
    - CVE-2023-53321: wifi: mac80211_hwsim: drop short frames (bsc#1250313).
    - CVE-2023-53335: RDMA/cxgb4: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in pass_establish() (bsc#1250072).
    - CVE-2023-53344: can: bcm: bcm_tx_setup(): fix KMSAN uninit-value in vfs_write (bsc#1250023).
    - CVE-2023-53348: btrfs: fix deadlock when aborting transaction during relocation with scrub     (bsc#1250018).
    - CVE-2023-53365: ip6mr: Fix skb_under_panic in ip6mr_cache_report() (bsc#1249988).
    - CVE-2023-53384: wifi: mwifiex: avoid possible NULL skb pointer dereference (bsc#1250127).
    - CVE-2023-53393: RDMA/mlx5: Fix mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats when used for device (bsc#1250114).
    - CVE-2023-53395: ACPICA: Add AML_NO_OPERAND_RESOLVE flag to Timer (bsc#1250358).
    - CVE-2023-53397: modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section() (bsc#1250125).
    - CVE-2023-53400: ALSA: hda: Fix Oops by 9.1 surround channel names (bsc#1250328).
    - CVE-2023-53438: x86/MCE: Always save CS register on AMD Zen IF Poison errors (bsc#1250180).
    - CVE-2023-53441: bpf: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem (bsc#1250150).
    - CVE-2024-53194: PCI: Fix use-after-free of slot->bus on hot remove (bsc#1235459).
    - CVE-2024-58240: tls: separate no-async decryption request handling from async (bsc#1248847).
    - CVE-2025-38488: smb: client: fix use-after-free in crypt_message when using async crypto (bsc#1247239).
    - CVE-2025-38527: smb: client: fix use-after-free in cifs_oplock_break (bsc#1248199).
    - 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-2025-38574: pptp: ensure minimal skb length in pptp_xmit() (bsc#1248365).
    - CVE-2025-38602: wifi: iwlwifi: Fix error code in iwl_op_mode_dvm_start() (bsc#1248341).
    - CVE-2025-38604: wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue (bsc#1248333).
    - CVE-2025-38623: PCI: pnv_php: Fix surprise plug detection and recovery (bsc#1248610).
    - CVE-2025-38624: PCI: pnv_php: Clean up allocated IRQs on unplug (bsc#1248617).
    - CVE-2025-38632: pinmux: fix race causing mux_owner NULL with active mux_usecount (bsc#1248669).
    - CVE-2025-38639: netfilter: xt_nfacct: do not assume acct name is null-terminated (bsc#1248674).
    - CVE-2025-38665: can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode     (bsc#1248648).
    - CVE-2025-38685: fbdev: Fix vmalloc out-of-bounds write in fast_imageblit (bsc#1249220).
    - CVE-2025-38701: ext4: do not BUG when INLINE_DATA_FL lacks system.data xattr (bsc#1249258).
    - CVE-2025-38702: fbdev: fix potential buffer overflow in do_register_framebuffer() (bsc#1249254).
    - CVE-2025-38705: drm/amd/pm: fix null pointer access (bsc#1249334).
    - CVE-2025-38712: hfsplus: do not use BUG_ON() in hfsplus_create_attributes_file() (bsc#1249194).
    - CVE-2025-38713: hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc() (bsc#1249200).
    - CVE-2025-38729: ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 power domain descriptors, too (bsc#1249164).
    - CVE-2025-38735: gve: prevent ethtool ops after shutdown (bsc#1249288).
    - CVE-2025-39677: net/sched: Fix backlog accounting in qdisc_dequeue_internal (bsc#1249300).
    - CVE-2025-39691: fs/buffer: fix use-after-free when call bh_read() helper (bsc#1249374).
    - CVE-2025-39705: drm/amd/display: fix a Null pointer dereference vulnerability (bsc#1249295).
    - CVE-2025-39706: drm/amdkfd: Destroy KFD debugfs after destroy KFD wq (bsc#1249413).
    - CVE-2025-39726: s390/ism: fix concurrency management in ism_cmd() (bsc#1249266).
    - CVE-2025-39751: ALSA: hda/ca0132: Fix buffer overflow in add_tuning_control (bsc#1249538).
    - CVE-2025-39754: mm/smaps: fix race between smaps_hugetlb_range and migration (bsc#1249524).
    - CVE-2025-39757: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix size validation in convert_chmap_v3() (bsc#1249515).
    - CVE-2025-39760: usb: core: config: Prevent OOB read in SS endpoint companion parsing (bsc#1249598).
    - CVE-2025-39763: ACPICA: Fix error code path in acpi_ds_call_control_method() (bsc#1249615).
    - CVE-2025-39764: netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers (bsc#1249513).
    - CVE-2025-39773: net: bridge: fix soft lockup in br_multicast_query_expired() (bsc#1249504).
    - CVE-2025-39782: jbd2: prevent softlockup in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() (bsc#1249526).
    - CVE-2025-39787: soc: qcom: mdt_loader: Deal with zero e_shentsize (bsc#1249545).
    - CVE-2025-39800: btrfs: abort transaction on unexpected eb generation at btrfs_copy_root() (bsc#1250177).
    - CVE-2025-39808: HID: hid-ntrig: fix unable to handle page fault in ntrig_report_version() (bsc#1250088).
    - CVE-2025-39824: HID: asus: fix UAF via HID_CLAIMED_INPUT validation (bsc#1250007).
    - CVE-2025-39833: mISDN: hfcpci: Fix warning when deleting uninitialized timer (bsc#1250028).
    - CVE-2025-39838: cifs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in UTF16 conversion (bsc#1250365).
    - CVE-2025-39847: ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb (bsc#1250292).
    - CVE-2025-39853: i40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty (bsc#1250275).
    - CVE-2025-39860: Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() (bsc#1250247).
    - CVE-2025-39863: wifi: brcmfmac: fix use-after-free when rescheduling brcmf_btcoex_info work     (bsc#1250281).
    - CVE-2025-39865: tee: fix NULL pointer dereference in tee_shm_put (bsc#1250294).
    - CVE-2025-39869: dmaengine: ti: edma: Fix memory allocation size for queue_priority_map (bsc#1250406).
    - CVE-2025-39885: ocfs2: fix recursive semaphore deadlock in fiemap call (bsc#1250407).
    - CVE-2025-40300: x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT (bsc#1247483).


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.

  - net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in .remove() In the (unlikely) event that     pm_runtime_get() (disguised as pm_runtime_resume_and_get()) fails, the remove callback returned an error     early. The problem with this is that the driver core ignores the error value and continues removing the     device. This results in a resource leak. Worse the devm allocated resources are freed and so if a callback     of the driver is called later the register mapping is already gone which probably results in a crash.
    (CVE-2023-53308)

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

An update of the linux package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
270831	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:03614-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
265639	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53308	Nessus	Misc.	medium
153035	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2021-4.0-0095	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high

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