In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg We tested and found an alarm caused by nbd_ioctl arg without verification. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/buffer.c:1709:35 signed integer overflow: -9223372036854775808 - 1 cannot be represented in type 'long long int' CPU: 3 PID: 2523 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.90 #1 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3f0 arch/arm64/kernel/time.c:78 show_stack+0x28/0x38 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:158 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x170/0x1dc lib/dump_stack.c:118 ubsan_epilogue+0x18/0xb4 lib/ubsan.c:161 handle_overflow+0x188/0x1dc lib/ubsan.c:192 __ubsan_handle_sub_overflow+0x34/0x44 lib/ubsan.c:206 __block_write_full_page+0x94c/0xa20 fs/buffer.c:1709 block_write_full_page+0x1f0/0x280 fs/buffer.c:2934 blkdev_writepage+0x34/0x40 fs/block_dev.c:607 __writepage+0x68/0xe8 mm/page-writeback.c:2305 write_cache_pages+0x44c/0xc70 mm/page-writeback.c:2240 generic_writepages+0xdc/0x148 mm/page-writeback.c:2329 blkdev_writepages+0x2c/0x38 fs/block_dev.c:2114 do_writepages+0xd4/0x250 mm/page-writeback.c:2344 The reason for triggering this warning is __block_write_full_page() -> i_size_read(inode) - 1 overflow. inode->i_size is assigned in __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_set_size() -> bytesize. We think it is necessary to limit the size of arg to prevent errors. Moreover, __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_add_socket(), arg will be cast to int. Assuming the value of arg is 0x80000000000000001) (on a 64-bit machine), it will become 1 after the coercion, which will return unexpected results. Fix it by adding checks to prevent passing in too large numbers.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03628-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 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-2022-49980: USB: gadget: fix use-after-free read in usb_udc_uevent() (bsc#1245110).
    - 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-2023-53321: 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-2025-23155: net: stmmac: Fix accessing freed irq affinity_hint (bsc#1242573).
    - CVE-2025-37738: ext4: ignore xattrs past end (bsc#1242846).
    - CVE-2025-37885: KVM: x86: Reset IRTE to host control if *new* route isn't postable (bsc#1242960).
    - 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-2025-38084: mm/hugetlb: unshare page tables during VMA split, not before (bsc#1245498).
    - CVE-2025-38085: mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race (bsc#1245499).
    - CVE-2025-38111: net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds read/write access (bsc#1245666).
    - CVE-2025-38184: tipc: fix null-ptr-deref when acquiring remote ip of ethernet bearer (bsc#1245956).
    - CVE-2025-38380: i2c/designware: Fix an initialization issue (bsc#1247028).
    - CVE-2025-38470: net: vlan: fix VLAN 0 refcount imbalance of toggling filtering during runtime     (bsc#1247288).
    - CVE-2025-38476: rpl: Fix use-after-free in rpl_do_srh_inline() (bsc#1247317).
    - 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-2025-39797: xfrm: xfrm_alloc_spi shouldn't use 0 as SPI (bsc#1249608).
    - 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.

  - nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg We tested and found an alarm caused by nbd_ioctl arg without     verification. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/buffer.c:1709:35     signed integer overflow: -9223372036854775808 - 1 cannot be represented in type 'long long int' CPU: 3     PID: 2523 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.90 #1 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace:
    dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3f0 arch/arm64/kernel/time.c:78 show_stack+0x28/0x38 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:158
    __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x170/0x1dc lib/dump_stack.c:118     ubsan_epilogue+0x18/0xb4 lib/ubsan.c:161 handle_overflow+0x188/0x1dc lib/ubsan.c:192
    __ubsan_handle_sub_overflow+0x34/0x44 lib/ubsan.c:206 __block_write_full_page+0x94c/0xa20 fs/buffer.c:1709     block_write_full_page+0x1f0/0x280 fs/buffer.c:2934 blkdev_writepage+0x34/0x40 fs/block_dev.c:607
    __writepage+0x68/0xe8 mm/page-writeback.c:2305 write_cache_pages+0x44c/0xc70 mm/page-writeback.c:2240     generic_writepages+0xdc/0x148 mm/page-writeback.c:2329 blkdev_writepages+0x2c/0x38 fs/block_dev.c:2114     do_writepages+0xd4/0x250 mm/page-writeback.c:2344 The reason for triggering this warning is
    __block_write_full_page() -> i_size_read(inode) - 1 overflow. inode->i_size is assigned in __nbd_ioctl()
    -> nbd_set_size() -> bytesize. We think it is necessary to limit the size of arg to prevent errors.
    Moreover, __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_add_socket(), arg will be cast to int. Assuming the value of arg is     0x80000000000000001) (on a 64-bit machine), it will become 1 after the coercion, which will return     unexpected results. Fix it by adding checks to prevent passing in too large numbers. (CVE-2023-53513)

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

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.117-72.142. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-021 advisory.

    In the Linux kernel through 6.2.7, fs/ntfs3/inode.c has an invalid kfree because it does not validate MFT     flags before replaying logs. (CVE-2022-48425)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    binder: fix UAF of alloc->vma in race with munmap() (CVE-2022-50240)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    binder: fix UAF of alloc->vma in race with munmap() (CVE-2022-50338)

    There is a potential deadlock in the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel.

    The default sysctl configuration kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled on Amazon Linux does not allow     unprivileged users to use eBPF. (CVE-2023-0160)

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem within the RPL protocol's handling. This issue     results from the improper handling of user-supplied data, which can lead to an assertion failure. This     flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create a denial of service condition on the system.
    (CVE-2023-2156)

    A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ipvlan network driver can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation.

    The out-of-bounds write is caused by missing skb->cb  initialization in the ipvlan network driver. The     vulnerability is reachable if CONFIG_IPVLAN is enabled.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 90cbed5247439a966b645b34eb0a2e037836ea8e. (CVE-2023-3090)

    A flaw in the Linux Kernel found in the GFS2 file system. On corrupted gfs2 file systems the evict code     can try to reference the journal descriptor structure, jdesc, after it has been freed and set to NULL. It     can lead to null pointer dereference when gfs2_trans_begin being called and then fail     ingfs2_evict_inode(). (CVE-2023-3212)

    An out of bounds (OOB) memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel in relay_file_read_start_pos in     kernel/relay.c in the relayfs. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system or leak kernel     internal information. (CVE-2023-3268)

    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.3. There is an out-of-bounds read in crc16 in     lib/crc16.c when called from fs/ext4/super.c because ext4_group_desc_csum does not properly check an     offset. (CVE-2023-34256)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in vcs_read in drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c in vc_screen in the Linux     Kernel. In this flaw an attacker with local user access may lead to a system crash or a leak of internal     kernel information. (CVE-2023-3567)

    An issue was discovered in fl_set_geneve_opt in net/sched/cls_flower.c in the Linux kernel before 6.3.7.
    It allows an out-of-bounds write in the flower classifier code via TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ENC_OPTS_GENEVE packets.
    This may result in denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2023-35788)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    serial: 8250: Reinit port->pm on port specific driver unbind (CVE-2023-53176)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ACPICA: Avoid undefined behavior: applying zero offset to null pointer (CVE-2023-53182)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    fs/ntfs3: Add length check in indx_get_root (CVE-2023-53194)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: fix i_disksize exceeding i_size problem in paritally written case (CVE-2023-53270)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: add bounds checking in get_max_inline_xattr_value_size() (CVE-2023-53285)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    fs/ntfs3: Fix null-ptr-deref on inode->i_op in ntfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53294)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    md/raid10: fix leak of 'r10bio->remaining' for recovery (CVE-2023-53299)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent (CVE-2023-53317)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    rcu: Protect rcu_print_task_exp_stall() ->exp_tasks access (CVE-2023-53419)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() helper (CVE-2023-53433)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: remove a BUG_ON in ext4_mb_release_group_pa() (CVE-2023-53450)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: improve error handling from ext4_dirhash() (CVE-2023-53473)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    x86/MCE/AMD: Use an u64 for bank_map (CVE-2023-53474)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    lib: cpu_rmap: Avoid use after free on rmap->obj array entries (CVE-2023-53484)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    fs/ntfs3: Enhance the attribute size check (CVE-2023-53486)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp. (CVE-2023-53489)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    virtio_net: Fix error unwinding of XDP initialization (CVE-2023-53499)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: allow ext4_get_group_info() to fail (CVE-2023-53503)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg (CVE-2023-53513)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    blk-crypto: make blk_crypto_evict_key() more robust (CVE-2023-53536)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion (CVE-2023-53566)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    drm/i915: Make intel_get_crtc_new_encoder() less oopsy (CVE-2023-53571)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    null_blk: Always check queue mode setting from configfs (CVE-2023-53576)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    scsi: target: Fix multiple LUN_RESET handling (CVE-2023-53586)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction (CVE-2023-53587)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net/mlx5e: Fix deadlock in tc route query code (CVE-2023-53591)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    dm integrity: call kmem_cache_destroy() in dm_integrity_init() error path (CVE-2023-53604)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of credit (CVE-2023-53624)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed (CVE-2023-53655)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: fix use-after-free read in ext4_find_extent for bigalloc + inline (CVE-2023-53692)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv() (CVE-2023-53705)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    fs/ntfs3: Fix NULL dereference in ni_write_inode (CVE-2023-53732)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in the __ext4_remount in fs/ext4/super.c in ext4 in the Linux kernel. This     flaw allows a local user to cause an information leak problem while freeing the old quota file names     before a potential failure, leading to a use-after-free. (CVE-2024-0775)

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

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

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-228 advisory.

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    binder: fix UAF of alloc->vma in race with munmap() (CVE-2022-50240)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    binder: fix UAF of alloc->vma in race with munmap() (CVE-2022-50338)

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem within the RPL protocol's handling. This issue     results from the improper handling of user-supplied data, which can lead to an assertion failure. This     flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create a denial of service condition on the system.
    (CVE-2023-2156)

    A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ipvlan network driver can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation.

    The out-of-bounds write is caused by missing skb->cb  initialization in the ipvlan network driver. The     vulnerability is reachable if CONFIG_IPVLAN is enabled.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 90cbed5247439a966b645b34eb0a2e037836ea8e. (CVE-2023-3090)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in vcs_read in drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c in vc_screen in the Linux     Kernel. In this flaw an attacker with local user access may lead to a system crash or a leak of internal     kernel information. (CVE-2023-3567)

    An issue was discovered in fl_set_geneve_opt in net/sched/cls_flower.c in the Linux kernel before 6.3.7.
    It allows an out-of-bounds write in the flower classifier code via TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ENC_OPTS_GENEVE packets.
    This may result in denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2023-35788)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    serial: 8250: Reinit port->pm on port specific driver unbind (CVE-2023-53176)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    mm: fix zswap writeback race condition (CVE-2023-53178)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ACPICA: Avoid undefined behavior: applying zero offset to null pointer (CVE-2023-53182)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    irqchip/gicv3: Workaround for NVIDIA erratum T241-FABRIC-4 (CVE-2023-53383)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    rcu: Protect rcu_print_task_exp_stall() ->exp_tasks access (CVE-2023-53419)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() helper (CVE-2023-53433)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: skb_partial_csum_set() fix against transport header magic value (CVE-2023-53439)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ACPI: processor: Check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in fch_misc_setup() (CVE-2023-53483)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    lib: cpu_rmap: Avoid use after free on rmap->obj array entries (CVE-2023-53484)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    virtio_net: Fix error unwinding of XDP initialization (CVE-2023-53499)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: allow ext4_get_group_info() to fail (CVE-2023-53503)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg (CVE-2023-53513)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion (CVE-2023-53566)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    null_blk: Always check queue mode setting from configfs (CVE-2023-53576)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    md: fix soft lockup in status_resync (CVE-2023-53620)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    tun: Fix memory leak for detached NAPI queue. (CVE-2023-53685)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv() (CVE-2023-53705)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: fix skb leak in __skb_tstamp_tx() (CVE-2023-53716)

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
270857	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:03628-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
269581	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53513	Nessus	Misc.	high
177781	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-021 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-021)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
177674	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-228)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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