In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix io_req_prep_async with provided buffers io_req_prep_async() can import provided buffers, commit the ring state by giving up on that before, it'll be reimported later if needed.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2025-20091-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0 kernel was updated to fix various security issues

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2025-21816: hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after (bsc#1238472).
    - CVE-2025-38653: proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al     (bsc#1248630).
    - CVE-2025-38718: sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv (bsc#1249161).
    - 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-2025-39756: fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX (bsc#1249512).
    - CVE-2025-39779: btrfs: subpage: keep TOWRITE tag until folio is cleaned (bsc#1249495).
    - CVE-2025-39812: sctp: initialize more fields in sctp_v6_from_sk() (bsc#1250202).
    - 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-2025-39881: kernfs: Fix UAF in polling when open file is released (bsc#1250379).
    - CVE-2025-39895: sched: Fix sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() if mask offline (bsc#1250721).
    - CVE-2025-39903: of_numa: fix uninitialized memory nodes causing kernel panic (bsc#1250749).
    - CVE-2025-39911: i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path (bsc#1250704).
    - CVE-2025-39947: net/mlx5e: Harden uplink netdev access against device unbind (bsc#1251232).
    - CVE-2025-39948: ice: fix Rx page leak on multi-buffer frames (bsc#1251233).
    - CVE-2025-39949: qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements (bsc#1251177).
    - CVE-2025-39950: net/tcp: Fix a NULL pointer dereference when using TCP-AO with TCP_REPAIR (bsc#1251176).
    - CVE-2025-39955: tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect() (bsc#1251804).
    - CVE-2025-39956: igc: don't fail igc_probe() on LED setup error (bsc#1251809).
    - CVE-2025-39963: io_uring: fix incorrect io_kiocb reference in io_link_skb (bsc#1251819).
    - CVE-2025-39968: i40e: add max boundary check for VF filters (bsc#1252047).
    - CVE-2025-39969: i40e: fix validation of VF state in get resources (bsc#1252044).
    - CVE-2025-39970: i40e: fix input validation logic for action_meta (bsc#1252051).
    - CVE-2025-39971: i40e: fix idx validation in config queues msg (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-2025-39978: octeontx2-pf: Fix potential use after free in otx2_tc_add_flow() (bsc#1252069).
    - CVE-2025-39979: net/mlx5: fs, add API for sharing HWS action by refcount (bsc#1252067).
    - CVE-2025-39984: net: tun: Update napi->skb after XDP process (bsc#1252081).
    - CVE-2025-39992: mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA (bsc#1252076).
    - CVE-2025-40000: wifi: rtw89: fix use-after-free in rtw89_core_tx_kick_off_and_wait() (bsc#1252062).
    - CVE-2025-40005: spi: cadence-quadspi: Implement refcount to handle unbind during busy (bsc#1252349).
    - CVE-2025-40012: net/smc: fix warning in smc_rx_splice() when calling get_page() (bsc#1252330).
    - CVE-2025-40018: ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup (bsc#1252688).
    - CVE-2025-40040: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise (bsc#1252780).
    - CVE-2025-40051: vhost: vringh: Modify the return value check (bsc#1252858).
    - CVE-2025-40056: vhost: vringh: Fix copy_to_iter return value check (bsc#1252826).
    - CVE-2025-40060: coresight: trbe: Return NULL pointer for allocation failures (bsc#1252848).
    - CVE-2025-40078: bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr (bsc#1252789).
    - CVE-2025-40080: nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP (bsc#1252774).
    - CVE-2025-40100: btrfs: do not assert we found block group item when creating free space tree     (bsc#1252918).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - add bug reference to existing hv_netvsc change (bsc#1252265)
    - amd-pstate-ut: Reset amd-pstate driver mode after running selftests (bsc#1249226).
    - cgroup/cpuset: Remove remote_partition_check() & make update_cpumasks_hier() handle remote partition     (bsc#1241166).
    - cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition (bsc#1241166).
    - cpuset: fix failure to enable isolated partition when containing isolcpus (bsc#1241166).
    - doc/README.SUSE: Correct the character used for TAINT_NO_SUPPORT       The character was previously 'N', but upstream used it for TAINT_TEST,       which prompted the change of TAINT_NO_SUPPORT to 'n'.
    - dpll: zl3073x: Add firmware loading functionality (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Add functions to access hardware registers (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Add low-level flash functions (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Add support to get fractional frequency offset (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Add support to get phase offset on connected input pin (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Add support to get/set esync on pins (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Fix double free in zl3073x_devlink_flash_update() (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Handle missing or corrupted flash configuration (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Implement devlink flash callback (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Increase maximum size of flash utility (bsc#1252253).
    - dpll: zl3073x: Refactor DPLL initialization (bsc#1252253).
    - drm/amd/pm: fix smu table id bound check issue in smu_cmn_update_table() (git-fixes).
    - drm/xe/guc: Prepare GuC register list and update ADS size for error capture (stable-fixes).
    - ixgbe: handle IXGBE_VF_FEATURES_NEGOTIATE mbox cmd (bsc#1247222).
    - ixgbe: handle IXGBE_VF_GET_PF_LINK_STATE mailbox operation (bsc#1247222).
    - ixgbevf: fix getting link speed data for E610 devices (bsc#1247222).
    - ixgbevf: fix mailbox API compatibility by negotiating supported features (bsc#1247222).
    - kbuild/modfinal: Link livepatches with module-common.o (bsc#1218644, bsc#1252270).
    - kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memmove() in vkdb_printf() (bsc#1252939).
    - kernel-subpackage-spec: Do not doubly-sign modules (bsc#1251930).
    - nvme-auth: update sc_c in host response (git-fixes bsc#1249397).
    - perf hwmon_pmu: Fix uninitialized variable warning (perf-sle16-v6.13-userspace-update, git-fixes).
    - phy: cadence: cdns-dphy: Update calibration wait time for startup state machine (git-fixes).
    - powerpc/fadump: skip parameter area allocation when fadump is disabled (jsc#PED-9891 git-fixes).
    - proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files (bsc#1248630)
    - proc: fix type confusion in pde_set_flags() (bsc#1248630)
    - rpm/check-for-config-changes: ignore CONFIG_SCHED_PROXY_EXEC, too (bsc#1250946)
    - scsi: storvsc: Prefer returning channel with the same CPU as on the I/O issuing CPU (bsc#1252267).
    - x86/microcode/AMD: Limit Entrysign signature checking to known generations (bsc#1252725).
    - x86/resctrl: Fix miscount of bandwidth event when reactivating previously unavailable RMID     (bsc#1252734).
    - x86/resctrl: Refactor resctrl_arch_rmid_read() (bsc#1252734).
    - x86/virt/tdx: Mark memory cache state incoherent when making SEAMCALL (jsc#PED-348).

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.

  - io_uring: fix io_req_prep_async with provided buffers io_req_prep_async() can import provided buffers,     commit the ring state by giving up on that before, it'll be reimported later if needed. (CVE-2025-40364)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2021-32399: Fixed a race condition when removing the HCI controller (bsc#1184611).
    - CVE-2022-49110: netfilter: conntrack: revisit gc autotuning (bsc#1237981).
    - CVE-2022-49139: Bluetooth: fix null ptr deref on hci_sync_conn_complete_evt (bsc#1238032).
    - CVE-2022-49320: dmaengine: zynqmp_dma: In struct zynqmp_dma_chan fix desc_size data type (bsc#1238394).
    - CVE-2022-49767: 9p/trans_fd: always use O_NONBLOCK read/write (bsc#1242493).
    - CVE-2022-49769: gfs2: Check sb_bsize_shift after reading superblock (bsc#1242440).
    - CVE-2022-49770: ceph: avoid putting the realm twice when decoding snaps fails (bsc#1242597).
    - CVE-2022-49775: tcp: cdg: allow tcp_cdg_release() to be called multiple times (bsc#1242245).
    - CVE-2022-49789: scsi: zfcp: Fix double free of FSF request when qdio send fails (bsc#1242366).
    - CVE-2023-53039: HID: intel-ish-hid: ipc: Fix potential use-after-free in work function (bsc#1242745).
    - CVE-2024-53168: net: make sock_inuse_add() available (bsc#1234887).
    - CVE-2024-56558: nfsd: make sure exp active before svc_export_show (bsc#1235100).
    - CVE-2024-56705: media: atomisp: add check for rgby_data memory allocation failure (bsc#1235568).
    - CVE-2025-21812: ax25: rcu protect dev->ax25_ptr (bsc#1238471).
    - CVE-2025-21999: proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode() (bsc#1240802).
    - CVE-2025-22028: media: vimc: skip .s_stream() for stopped entities (bsc#1241362).
    - CVE-2025-22121: ext4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() (bsc#1241593).
    - CVE-2025-37789: net: openvswitch: fix nested key length validation in the set() action (bsc#1242762).
    - CVE-2025-37846: arm64: mops: Do not dereference src reg for a set operation (bsc#1242963).
    - CVE-2025-40364: io_uring: fix io_req_prep_async with provided buffers (bsc#1241637).


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.

An update of the linux package has been released.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-876 advisory.

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

    iommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device() (CVE-2024-40945)

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

    block, bfq: fix bfqq uaf in bfq_limit_depth() (CVE-2024-53166)

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

    usb: xhci: Fix NULL pointer dereference on certain command aborts (CVE-2024-57981)

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

    HID: core: Fix assumption that Resolution Multipliers must be in Logical Collections (CVE-2024-57986)

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

    HID: hid-thrustmaster: Fix warning in thrustmaster_probe by adding endpoint check (CVE-2024-57993)

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

    net_sched: sch_sfq: don't allow 1 packet limit (CVE-2024-57996)

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

    safesetid: check size of policy writes (CVE-2024-58016)

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

    printk: Fix signed integer overflow when defining LOG_BUF_LEN_MAX (CVE-2024-58017)

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

    HID: multitouch: Add NULL check in mt_input_configured (CVE-2024-58020)

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

    team: prevent adding a device which is already a team device lower (CVE-2024-58071)

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

    KVM: Explicitly verify target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu() (CVE-2024-58083)

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

    netem: Update sch->q.qlen before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() (CVE-2025-21703)

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

    usb: cdc-acm: Check control transfer buffer size before access (CVE-2025-21704)

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

    mptcp: handle fastopen disconnect correctly (CVE-2025-21705)

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

    mptcp: pm: only set fullmesh for subflow endp (CVE-2025-21706)

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

    mptcp: consolidate suboption status (CVE-2025-21707)

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

    vxlan: Fix uninit-value in vxlan_vnifilter_dump() (CVE-2025-21716)

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

    ipmr: do not call mr_mfc_uses_dev() for unres entries (CVE-2025-21719)

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

    iommufd/iova_bitmap: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in iova_bitmap_offset_to_index() (CVE-2025-21724)

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

    smb: client: fix oops due to unset link speed (CVE-2025-21725)

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

    bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible (CVE-2025-21728)

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

    ata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer (CVE-2025-21738)

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

    blk-cgroup: Fix class @block_class's subsystem refcount leakage (CVE-2025-21745)

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

    ipv6: use RCU protection in ip6_default_advmss() (CVE-2025-21765)

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

    ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() (CVE-2025-21766)

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

    clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context (CVE-2025-21767)

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

    USB: hub: Ignore non-compliant devices with too many configs or interfaces (CVE-2025-21776)

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

    KVM: x86: Reject Hyper-V's SEND_IPI hypercalls if local APIC isn't in-kernel (CVE-2025-21779)

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

    arm64: cacheinfo: Avoid out-of-bounds write to cacheinfo array (CVE-2025-21785)

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

    team: better TEAM_OPTION_TYPE_STRING validation (CVE-2025-21787)

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

    vxlan: check vxlan_vnigroup_init() return value (CVE-2025-21790)

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

    NFSD: fix hang in nfsd4_shutdown_callback (CVE-2025-21795)

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

    net: let net.core.dev_weight always be non-zero (CVE-2025-21806)

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

    ptp: Ensure info->enable callback is always set (CVE-2025-21814)

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

    netfilter: nf_tables: reject mismatching sum of field_len with set key length (CVE-2025-21826)

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

    block: don't revert iter for -EIOCBQUEUED (CVE-2025-21832)

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

    io_uring: fix io_req_prep_async with provided buffers (CVE-2025-40364)

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
277016	openSUSE 16 Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2025-20091-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
276237	TencentOS Server 4: kernel (TSSA-2025:0430)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
246763	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40364	Nessus	Misc.	high
240812	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
232764	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2025-5.0-0486	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
232711	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2025-876)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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