In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy(). syzkaller reported use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy(). [0] It shows the same process freed sk and touched it illegally. Commit e198987e7dd7 ("gtp: fix suspicious RCU usage") added lock_sock() and release_sock() in __gtp_encap_destroy() to protect sk->sk_user_data, but release_sock() is called after sock_put() releases the last refcnt. [0]: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178 Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800dbef398 by task syz-executor.2/2401 CPU: 1 PID: 2401 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline] print_report+0xcc/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:462 kasan_report+0xb2/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:572 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:181 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x39/0x1c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:187 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline] queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline] do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline] __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178 spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:355 [inline] release_sock+0x1f/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:3526 gtp_encap_disable_sock drivers/net/gtp.c:651 [inline] gtp_encap_disable+0xb9/0x220 drivers/net/gtp.c:664 gtp_dev_uninit+0x19/0x50 drivers/net/gtp.c:728 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x97e/0x1520 net/core/dev.c:10841 rtnl_delete_link net/core/rtnetlink.c:3216 [inline] rtnl_dellink+0x3c0/0xb30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3268 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x450/0xb10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6423 netlink_rcv_skb+0x15d/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2548 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x700/0x930 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365 netlink_sendmsg+0x91c/0xe30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1913 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x200 net/socket.c:747 ____sys_sendmsg+0x75a/0x990 net/socket.c:2493 ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2547 __sys_sendmsg+0xfe/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2576 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc RIP: 0033:0x7f1168b1fe5d Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 73 9f 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f1167edccc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004bbf80 RCX: 00007f1168b1fe5d RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000200002c0 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00000000004bbf80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f1168b80530 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> Allocated by task 1483: kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x ---truncated---

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0474-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to fix various security issues

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2022-50697: mrp: introduce active flags to prevent UAF when applicant uninit (bsc#1255594).
    - CVE-2023-54142: gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy() (bsc#1256095).
    - CVE-2023-54243: netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free (bsc#1255908).
    - CVE-2025-38068: crypto: lzo - Fix compression buffer overrun (bsc#1245210).
    - CVE-2025-38129: page_pool: fix inconsistency for page_pool_ring_lock() (bsc#1245723).
    - CVE-2025-38159: wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds (bsc#1245751).
    - CVE-2025-38375: virtio-net: ensure the received length does not exceed allocated size (bsc#1247177).
    - CVE-2025-40257: mptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer() (bsc#1254842).
    - CVE-2025-40300: Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation (bsc#1247483).
    - CVE-2025-68183: ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr (bsc#1255251).
    - CVE-2025-68284: libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds writes in handle_auth_session_key()     (bsc#1255377).
    - CVE-2025-68285: libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map() (bsc#1255401).
    - CVE-2025-68312: usbnet: Prevents free active kevent (bsc#1255171).
    - CVE-2025-68771: ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain (bsc#1256582).
    - CVE-2025-68813: ipvs: fix ipv4 null-ptr-deref in route error path (bsc#1256641).
    - CVE-2025-71085: ipv6: BUG() in pskb_expand_head() as part of calipso_skbuff_setattr() (bsc#1256623).
    - CVE-2025-71089: iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set (bsc#1256612).
    - CVE-2025-71112: net: hns3: add VLAN id validation before using (bsc#1256726).
    - CVE-2025-71116: libceph: make decode_pool() more resilient against corrupted osdmaps (bsc#1256744).
    - CVE-2025-71120: SUNRPC: svcauth_gss: avoid NULL deref on zero length gss_token in gss_read_proxy_verf     (bsc#1256779).
    - CVE-2026-22999: net/sched: sch_qfq: do not free existing class in qfq_change_class() (bsc#1257236).
    - CVE-2026-23001: macvlan: fix possible UAF in macvlan_forward_source() (bsc#1257232).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - mm, page_alloc, thp: prevent reclaim for __GFP_THISNODE THP allocations (bsc#1253087).
    - net: hv_netvsc: reject RSS hash key programming without RX indirection table (bsc#1257473).
    - net: tcp: allow zero-window ACK update the window (bsc#1254767).
    - net: tcp: send zero-window ACK when no memory (bsc#1254767).
    - scsi: storvsc: Process unsupported MODE_SENSE_10 (bsc#1257296).
    - tcp: correct handling of extreme memory squeeze (bsc#1254767).
    - x86: make page fault handling disable interrupts properly (git-fixes).

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.

  - gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy(). syzkaller reported use-after-free in
    __gtp_encap_destroy(). [0] It shows the same process freed sk and touched it illegally. Commit     e198987e7dd7 (gtp: fix suspicious RCU usage) added lock_sock() and release_sock() in
    __gtp_encap_destroy() to protect sk->sk_user_data, but release_sock() is called after sock_put() releases     the last refcnt. [0]: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write     include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire     include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in     queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in     do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in
    __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in
    _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178 Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800dbef398 by task     syz-executor.2/2401 CPU: 1 PID: 2401 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #2     Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org     04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0     lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline] print_report+0xcc/0x620     mm/kasan/report.c:462 kasan_report+0xb2/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:572 check_region_inline     mm/kasan/generic.c:181 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x39/0x1c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:187     instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire     include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline] queued_spin_lock include/asm-     generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline] do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline] __raw_spin_lock_bh     include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178     spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:355 [inline] release_sock+0x1f/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:3526     gtp_encap_disable_sock drivers/net/gtp.c:651 [inline] gtp_encap_disable+0xb9/0x220 drivers/net/gtp.c:664     gtp_dev_uninit+0x19/0x50 drivers/net/gtp.c:728 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x97e/0x1520     net/core/dev.c:10841 rtnl_delete_link net/core/rtnetlink.c:3216 [inline] rtnl_dellink+0x3c0/0xb30     net/core/rtnetlink.c:3268 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x450/0xb10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6423     netlink_rcv_skb+0x15d/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2548 netlink_unicast_kernel     net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x700/0x930 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365     netlink_sendmsg+0x91c/0xe30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1913 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]     sock_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x200 net/socket.c:747 ____sys_sendmsg+0x75a/0x990 net/socket.c:2493
    ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2547 __sys_sendmsg+0xfe/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2576 do_syscall_x64     arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc RIP: 0033:0x7f1168b1fe5d Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00     00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0     ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 73 9f 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f1167edccc8 EFLAGS: 00000246     ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004bbf80 RCX: 00007f1168b1fe5d RDX:
    0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000200002c0 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00000000004bbf80 R08: 0000000000000000     R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13:
    000000000000000b R14: 00007f1168b80530 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> Allocated by task 1483:
    kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52
    __kasan_slab_alloc+0x ---truncated--- (CVE-2023-54142)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
298928	SUSE SLES15 : Recommended update for initial livepatch (SUSE-SU-2026:0474-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
297194	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
296680	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
296676	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
296481	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
280042	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-54142	Nessus	Misc.	high

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