In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: fix wrong ct->timeout value (struct nf_conn)->timeout is an interval before the conntrack confirmed. After confirmed, it becomes a timestamp. It is observed that timeout of an unconfirmed conntrack: - Set by calling ctnetlink_change_timeout(). As a result, `nfct_time_stamp` was wrongly added to `ct->timeout` twice. - Get by calling ctnetlink_dump_timeout(). As a result, `nfct_time_stamp` was wrongly subtracted. Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl ctnetlink_dump_timeout __ctnetlink_glue_build ctnetlink_glue_build __nfqnl_enqueue_packet nf_queue nf_hook_slow ip_mc_output ? __pfx_ip_finish_output ip_send_skb ? __pfx_dst_output udp_send_skb udp_sendmsg ? __pfx_ip_generic_getfrag sock_sendmsg Separate the 2 cases in: - Setting `ct->timeout` in __nf_ct_set_timeout(). - Getting `ct->timeout` in ctnetlink_dump_timeout(). Pablo appends: Update ctnetlink to set up the timeout _after_ the IPS_CONFIRMED flag is set on, otherwise conntrack creation via ctnetlink breaks. Note that the problem described in this patch occurs since the introduction of the nfnetlink_queue conntrack support, select a sufficiently old Fixes: tag for -stable kernel to pick up this fix.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4189-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to fix various security issues

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2021-4460: drm/amdkfd: Fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning (bsc#1250764).
    - CVE-2022-48631: ext4: fix bug in extents parsing when eh_entries == 0 and eh_depth > 0 (bsc#1223475).
    - CVE-2022-50236: iommu/mediatek: Fix crash on isr after kexec() (bsc#1249702).
    - CVE-2022-50249: memory: of: Fix refcount leak bug in of_get_ddr_timings() (bsc#1249747).
    - CVE-2022-50280: pnode: terminate at peers of source (bsc#1249806).
    - CVE-2022-50293: btrfs: do not BUG_ON() on ENOMEM when dropping extent items for a range (bsc#1249752).
    - CVE-2022-50327: ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value (bsc#1249859).
    - CVE-2022-50350: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix a race condition between login_work and the login thread     (bsc#1250261).
    - CVE-2022-50356: net: sched: sfb: fix null pointer access issue when sfb_init() fails (bsc#1250040).
    - CVE-2022-50367: fs: fix UAF/GPF bug in nilfs_mdt_destroy (bsc#1250277).
    - CVE-2022-50394: i2c: ismt: Fix an out-of-bounds bug in ismt_access() (bsc#1250107).
    - CVE-2022-50395: integrity: Fix memory leakage in keyring allocation error path (bsc#1250211).
    - CVE-2022-50423: ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage() (bsc#1250784).
    - CVE-2022-50443: drm/rockchip: lvds: fix PM usage counter unbalance in poweron (bsc#1250768).
    - CVE-2022-50459: scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix null-ptr-deref while calling getpeername() (bsc#1250850).
    - CVE-2022-50481: cxl: fix possible null-ptr-deref in cxl_guest_init_afu|adapter() (bsc#1251051).
    - CVE-2022-50485: ext4: add EXT4_IGET_BAD flag to prevent unexpected bad inode (bsc#1251197).
    - CVE-2022-50505: iommu/amd: Fix pci device refcount leak in ppr_notifier() (bsc#1251086).
    - CVE-2022-50516: fs: dlm: fix invalid derefence of sb_lvbptr (bsc#1251741).
    - CVE-2022-50542: media: si470x: Fix use-after-free in si470x_int_in_callback() (bsc#1251330).
    - CVE-2022-50571: btrfs: call __btrfs_remove_free_space_cache_locked on cache load failure (bsc#1252487).
    - CVE-2023-53183: btrfs: exit gracefully if reloc roots don't match (bsc#1249863).
    - CVE-2023-53185: wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes (bsc#1249820).
    - CVE-2023-53188: net: openvswitch: fix race on port output (bsc#1249854).
    - CVE-2023-53191: irqchip/alpine-msi: Fix refcount leak in alpine_msix_init_domains (bsc#1249721).
    - CVE-2023-53204: af_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight (bsc#1249682).
    - CVE-2023-53271: ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume() (bsc#1249916).
    - CVE-2023-53282: scsi: lpfc: Fix use-after-free KFENCE violation during sysfs firmware write     (bsc#1250311).
    - CVE-2023-53289: media: bdisp: Add missing check for create_workqueue (bsc#1249941).
    - CVE-2023-53292: blk-mq: protect q->elevator by ->sysfs_lock in blk_mq_elv_switch_none (bsc#1250163).
    - CVE-2023-53338: lwt: Fix return values of BPF xmit ops (bsc#1250074).
    - CVE-2023-53339: btrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance (bsc#1250329).
    - CVE-2023-53373: crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly (bsc#1250137).
    - CVE-2023-53433: net: add vlan_get_protocol_and_depth() helper (bsc#1250164).
    - CVE-2023-53476: iw_cxgb4: Fix potential NULL dereference in c4iw_fill_res_cm_id_entry() (bsc#1250839).
    - CVE-2023-53477: ipv6: Add lwtunnel encap size of all siblings in nexthop calculation (bsc#1250840).
    - CVE-2023-53484: lib: cpu_rmap: Avoid use after free on rmap->obj array entries (bsc#1250895).
    - CVE-2023-53517: tipc: do not update mtu if msg_max is too small in mtu negotiation (bsc#1250919).
    - CVE-2023-53519: media: v4l2-mem2mem: add lock to protect parameter num_rdy (bsc#1250964).
    - CVE-2023-53540: wifi: cfg80211: reject auth/assoc to AP with our address (bsc#1251053).
    - CVE-2023-53548: net: usbnet: Fix WARNING in usbnet_start_xmit/usb_submit_urb (bsc#1251066).
    - CVE-2023-53556: iavf: Fix use-after-free in free_netdev (bsc#1251059).
    - CVE-2023-53559: ip_vti: fix potential slab-use-after-free in decode_session6 (bsc#1251052).
    - CVE-2023-53582: wifi: brcmfmac: ensure CLM version is null-terminated to prevent stack-out-of-bounds     (bsc#1251061).
    - CVE-2023-53589: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels (bsc#1251129).
    - CVE-2023-53593: cifs: Release folio lock on fscache read hit (bsc#1251132).
    - CVE-2023-53594: driver core: fix resource leak in device_add() (bsc#1251166).
    - CVE-2023-53596: drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device (bsc#1251161).
    - CVE-2023-53619: netfilter: conntrack: Avoid nf_ct_helper_hash uses after free (bsc#1251743).
    - CVE-2023-53620: md: fix soft lockup in status_resync.
    - CVE-2023-53624: net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of 'credit' (bsc#1251333).
    - CVE-2023-53635: netfilter: conntrack: fix wrong ct->timeout value (bsc#1251524).
    - CVE-2023-53648: ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer (bsc#1251750).
    - CVE-2023-53687: tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() when iterating     clk (bsc#1251772).
    - CVE-2023-53695: udf: Detect system inodes linked into directory hierarchy (bsc#1252539).
    - CVE-2023-53705: ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv() (bsc#1252554).
    - CVE-2023-53707: drm/amdgpu: Fix integer overflow in amdgpu_cs_pass1 (bsc#1252632).
    - CVE-2023-53715: wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Pass the PMK in binary instead of hex (bsc#1252545).
    - CVE-2023-53717: wifi: ath9k: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds write in ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback()     (bsc#1252560).
    - CVE-2023-53733: net: sched: cls_u32: Undo tcf_bind_filter if u32_replace_hw_knode (bsc#1252685).
    - CVE-2025-38539: trace/fgraph: Fix the warning caused by missing unregister notifier (bsc#1248211).
    - CVE-2025-38680: media: uvcvideo: Fix 1-byte out-of-bounds read in uvc_parse_format() (bsc#1249203).
    - CVE-2025-38691: pNFS: Fix uninited ptr deref in block/scsi layout (bsc#1249215).
    - CVE-2025-38695: scsi: lpfc: Check for hdwq null ptr when cleaning up lpfc_vport structure (bsc#1249285).
    - CVE-2025-38699: scsi: bfa: Double-free fix (bsc#1249224).
    - CVE-2025-38700: scsi: libiscsi: Initialize iscsi_conn->dd_data only if memory is allocated     (bsc#1249182).
    - CVE-2025-38714: hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds in hfsplus_bnode_read() (bsc#1249260).
    - CVE-2025-38718: sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv (bsc#1249161).
    - CVE-2025-38724: nfsd: handle get_client_locked() failure in nfsd4_setclientid_confirm() (bsc#1249169).
    - CVE-2025-39676: scsi: qla4xxx: Prevent a potential error pointer dereference (bsc#1249302).
    - CVE-2025-39702: ipv6: sr: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (bsc#1249317).
    - CVE-2025-39724: serial: 8250: fix panic due to PSLVERR (bsc#1249265).
    - CVE-2025-39756: fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX (bsc#1249512).
    - CVE-2025-39772: drm/hisilicon/hibmc: fix the hibmc loaded failed bug (bsc#1249506).
    - CVE-2025-39812: sctp: initialize more fields in sctp_v6_from_sk() (bsc#1250202).
    - CVE-2025-39813: ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump (bsc#1250032).
    - CVE-2025-39841: scsi: lpfc: Fix buffer free/clear order in deferred receive path (bsc#1250274).
    - CVE-2025-39866: fs: writeback: fix use-after-free in __mark_inode_dirty() (bsc#1250455).
    - CVE-2025-39876: net: fec: Fix possible NPD in fec_enet_phy_reset_after_clk_enable() (bsc#1250400).
    - CVE-2025-39911: i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path (bsc#1250704).
    - CVE-2025-39923: dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: Fix DT error handling for num-channels/ees (bsc#1250741).
    - CVE-2025-39929: smb: client: fix smbdirect_recv_io leak in smbd_negotiate() error path (bsc#1251036).
    - CVE-2025-39931: crypto: af_alg - Set merge to zero early in af_alg_sendmsg (bsc#1251100).
    - CVE-2025-39945: cnic: Fix use-after-free bugs in cnic_delete_task (bsc#1251230).
    - CVE-2025-39949: qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements (bsc#1251177).
    - CVE-2025-39955: tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect() (bsc#1251804).
    - CVE-2025-39968: i40e: add max boundary check for VF filters (bsc#1252047).
    - CVE-2025-39970: i40e: Fix filter input checks to prevent config with invalid values (bsc#1252051).
    - CVE-2025-39971: i40e: Add bounds check for ch[] array (bsc#1252052).
    - CVE-2025-39972: i40e: fix idx validation in i40e_validate_queue_map (bsc#1252039).
    - CVE-2025-39973: i40e: add validation for ring_len param (bsc#1252035).
    - CVE-2025-39997: ALSA: usb-audio: fix race condition to UAF in snd_usbmidi_free (bsc#1252056).
    - CVE-2025-40018: ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup (bsc#1252688).
    - CVE-2025-40044: fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling (bsc#1252785).
    - CVE-2025-40049: Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent (bsc#1252822).
    - CVE-2025-40078: bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr (bsc#1252789).
    - CVE-2025-40082: hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc() (bsc#1252775).
    - CVE-2025-40088: hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_strcasecmp() (bsc#1252904).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - NFSv4.1: fix backchannel max_resp_sz verification check (bsc#1247518).
    - net: hv_netvsc: fix loss of early receive events from host during channel open (bsc#1252265).
    - openvswitch: fix lockup on tx to unregistering netdev with carrier (bsc#1249854)

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.

  - netfilter: conntrack: fix wrong ct->timeout value (struct nf_conn)->timeout is an interval before the     conntrack confirmed. After confirmed, it becomes a timestamp. It is observed that timeout of an     unconfirmed conntrack: - Set by calling ctnetlink_change_timeout(). As a result, `nfct_time_stamp` was     wrongly added to `ct->timeout` twice. - Get by calling ctnetlink_dump_timeout(). As a result,     `nfct_time_stamp` was wrongly subtracted. Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl ctnetlink_dump_timeout
    __ctnetlink_glue_build ctnetlink_glue_build __nfqnl_enqueue_packet nf_queue nf_hook_slow ip_mc_output ?
    __pfx_ip_finish_output ip_send_skb ? __pfx_dst_output udp_send_skb udp_sendmsg ? __pfx_ip_generic_getfrag     sock_sendmsg Separate the 2 cases in: - Setting `ct->timeout` in __nf_ct_set_timeout(). - Getting     `ct->timeout` in ctnetlink_dump_timeout(). Pablo appends: Update ctnetlink to set up the timeout _after_     the IPS_CONFIRMED flag is set on, otherwise conntrack creation via ctnetlink breaks. Note that the problem     described in this patch occurs since the introduction of the nfnetlink_queue conntrack support, select a     sufficiently old Fixes: tag for -stable kernel to pick up this fix. (CVE-2023-53635)

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

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-184 advisory.

    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 denial of service problem was found, due to a possible recursive locking scenario, resulting in a     deadlock in table_clear in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Linux Kernel Device Mapper-Multipathing sub-     component. (CVE-2023-2269)

    In the Linux kernel through 6.3.1, a use-after-free in Netfilter nf_tables when processing batch requests     can be abused to perform arbitrary read and write operations on kernel memory. Unprivileged local users     can obtain root privileges. This occurs because anonymous sets are mishandled. (CVE-2023-32233)

    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)

    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:

    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:

    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:

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

    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:

    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:

    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:

    netfilter: conntrack: fix wrong ct->timeout value (CVE-2023-53635)

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

    x86: fix clear_user_rep_good() exception handling annotation (CVE-2023-53642)

    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:

    tcp: fix skb_copy_ubufs() vs BIG TCP (CVE-2023-53669)

    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)

    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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
276910	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:4189-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
270201	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53635	Nessus	Misc.	medium
176925	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-184)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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