In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erspan: Initialize options_len before referencing options. The struct ip_tunnel_info has a flexible array member named options that is protected by a counted_by(options_len) attribute. The compiler will use this information to enforce runtime bounds checking deployed by FORTIFY_SOURCE string helpers. As laid out in the GCC documentation, the counter must be initialized before the first reference to the flexible array member. After scanning through the files that use struct ip_tunnel_info and also refer to options or options_len, it appears the normal case is to use the ip_tunnel_info_opts_set() helper. Said helper would initialize options_len properly before copying data into options, however in the GRE ERSPAN code a partial update is done, preventing the use of the helper function. Before this change the handling of ERSPAN traffic in GRE tunnels would cause a kernel panic when the kernel is compiled with GCC 15+ and having FORTIFY_SOURCE configured: memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 4 byte write of buffer size 0 Call Trace: <IRQ> __fortify_panic+0xd/0xf erspan_rcv.cold+0x68/0x83 ? ip_route_input_slow+0x816/0x9d0 gre_rcv+0x1b2/0x1c0 gre_rcv+0x8e/0x100 ? raw_v4_input+0x2a0/0x2b0 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x1ea/0x210 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x86/0x110 ip_local_deliver+0x65/0x110 ? ip_rcv_finish_core+0xd6/0x360 ip_rcv+0x186/0x1a0 Reported-at: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2129580

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8094-1 advisory.

    Qualys discovered that several vulnerabilities existed in the AppArmor Linux kernel Security Module (LSM).
    An unprivileged local attacker could use these issues to load, replace, and remove arbitrary AppArmor     profiles causing denial of service, exposure of sensitive information (kernel memory), local privilege     escalation, or possibly escape a container. (LP: #2143853)

    It was discovered that some AMD Zen 5 processors supporting RDSEED instruction did not properly handle     entropy, potentially resulting in the consumption of insufficiently random values. A local attacker could     possibly use this issue to influence the values returned by the RDSEED instruction causing loss of     confidentiality and integrity. (CVE-2025-62626)

    Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to     compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

    - ARM64 architecture;

    - S390 architecture;

    - x86 architecture;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - Compute Acceleration Framework;

    - ATM drivers;

    - Network block device driver;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Data acquisition framework and drivers;

    - Hardware crypto device drivers;

    - Device frequency scaling framework;

    - Intel Stratix 10 firmware drivers;

    - GPIO subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - Microsoft Hyper-V drivers;

    - CoreSight HW tracing drivers;

    - IIO subsystem;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - Input Device core drivers;

    - Input Device (Tablet) drivers;

    - IOMMU subsystem;

    - IRQ chip drivers;

    - Macintosh device drivers;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) drivers;

    - MTD block device drivers;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - Texas Instruments network drivers;

    - Ethernet team driver;

    - MediaTek network drivers;

    - NVME drivers;

    - Pin controllers subsystem;

    - x86 platform drivers;

    - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;

    - Real Time Clock drivers;

    - S/390 drivers;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - Texas Instruments SoC drivers;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) driver;

    - Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - UFS subsystem;

    - DesignWare USB3 driver;

    - USB Gadget drivers;

    - Renesas USBHS Controller drivers;

    - USB Mass Storage drivers;

    - USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;

    - Backlight driver;

    - Framebuffer layer;

    - AFS file system;

    - BFS file system;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - EROFS file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - FAT file system;

    - GFS2 file system;

    - Journaling layer for block devices (JBD2);

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - Network file system (NFS) client;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - OCFS2 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - XFS file system;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - MediaTek SoC drivers;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - Locking primitives;

    - Scheduler infrastructure;

    - Timer subsystem;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - Kexec HandOver (KHO);

    - Memory management;

    - Ceph Core library;

    - Networking core;

    - Devlink API;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - Multipath TCP;

    - Open vSwitch;

    - Network traffic control;

    - VMware vSockets driver;

    - eXpress Data Path;

    - Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;

    - Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel framework;

    - FireWire sound drivers;

    - HD-audio driver;

    - Turtle Beach Wavefront ALSA driver;

    - SoundWire (SDCA) ASoC drivers; (CVE-2025-40246, CVE-2025-40247, CVE-2025-40248, CVE-2025-40249,     CVE-2025-40250, CVE-2025-40251, CVE-2025-40252, CVE-2025-40253, CVE-2025-40254, CVE-2025-40255,     CVE-2025-40257, CVE-2025-40258, CVE-2025-40259, CVE-2025-40260, CVE-2025-40261, CVE-2025-40262,     CVE-2025-40263, CVE-2025-40264, CVE-2025-40265, CVE-2025-40266, CVE-2025-40290, CVE-2025-40345,     CVE-2025-68212, CVE-2025-68213, CVE-2025-68214, CVE-2025-68215, CVE-2025-68217, CVE-2025-68218,     CVE-2025-68219, CVE-2025-68220, CVE-2025-68221, CVE-2025-68222, CVE-2025-68223, CVE-2025-68225,     CVE-2025-68227, CVE-2025-68228, CVE-2025-68229, CVE-2025-68230, CVE-2025-68231, CVE-2025-68232,     CVE-2025-68233, CVE-2025-68234, CVE-2025-68235, CVE-2025-68236, CVE-2025-68237, CVE-2025-68238,     CVE-2025-68254, CVE-2025-68255, CVE-2025-68256, CVE-2025-68257, CVE-2025-68258, CVE-2025-68259,     CVE-2025-68261, CVE-2025-68262, CVE-2025-68263, CVE-2025-68264, CVE-2025-68265, CVE-2025-68266,     CVE-2025-68281, CVE-2025-68282, CVE-2025-68283, CVE-2025-68284, CVE-2025-68285, CVE-2025-68286,     CVE-2025-68287, CVE-2025-68288, CVE-2025-68289, CVE-2025-68290, CVE-2025-68292, CVE-2025-68293,     CVE-2025-68294, CVE-2025-68295, CVE-2025-68296, CVE-2025-68297, CVE-2025-68298, CVE-2025-68299,     CVE-2025-68300, CVE-2025-68301, CVE-2025-68302, CVE-2025-68303, CVE-2025-68304, CVE-2025-68305,     CVE-2025-68306, CVE-2025-68307, CVE-2025-68308, CVE-2025-68323, CVE-2025-68324, CVE-2025-68325,     CVE-2025-68326, CVE-2025-68327, CVE-2025-68328, CVE-2025-68329, CVE-2025-68330, CVE-2025-68331,     CVE-2025-68332, CVE-2025-68333, CVE-2025-68334, CVE-2025-68335, CVE-2025-68336, CVE-2025-68337,     CVE-2025-68338, CVE-2025-68339, CVE-2025-68340, CVE-2025-68341, CVE-2025-68342, CVE-2025-68343,     CVE-2025-68344, CVE-2025-68345, CVE-2025-68346, CVE-2025-68347, CVE-2025-68348, CVE-2025-68349,     CVE-2025-68352, CVE-2025-68354, CVE-2025-68356, CVE-2025-68358, CVE-2025-68359, CVE-2025-68360,     CVE-2025-68361, CVE-2025-68362, CVE-2025-68363, CVE-2025-68364, CVE-2025-68366, CVE-2025-68367,     CVE-2025-68369, CVE-2025-68370, CVE-2025-68371, CVE-2025-68372, CVE-2025-68373, CVE-2025-68374,     CVE-2025-68375, CVE-2025-68376, CVE-2025-68378, CVE-2025-68379, CVE-2025-68380, CVE-2025-68724,     CVE-2025-68726, CVE-2025-68727, CVE-2025-68728, CVE-2025-68729, CVE-2025-68730, CVE-2025-68732,     CVE-2025-68733, CVE-2025-68735, CVE-2025-68738, CVE-2025-68739, CVE-2025-68740, CVE-2025-68741,     CVE-2025-68742, CVE-2025-68743, CVE-2025-68744, CVE-2025-68746, CVE-2025-68747, CVE-2025-68748,     CVE-2025-68749, CVE-2025-68751, CVE-2025-68752, CVE-2025-68753, CVE-2025-68754, CVE-2025-68755,     CVE-2025-68756, CVE-2025-68757, CVE-2025-68758, CVE-2025-68759, CVE-2025-68760, CVE-2025-68762,     CVE-2025-68763, CVE-2025-68764, CVE-2025-68765, CVE-2025-68766, CVE-2025-71128)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erspan: Initialize options_len before     referencing options. The struct ip_tunnel_info has a flexible array member named options that is protected     by a counted_by(options_len) attribute. The compiler will use this information to enforce runtime bounds     checking deployed by FORTIFY_SOURCE string helpers. As laid out in the GCC documentation, the counter must     be initialized before the first reference to the flexible array member. After scanning through the files     that use struct ip_tunnel_info and also refer to options or options_len, it appears the normal case is to     use the ip_tunnel_info_opts_set() helper. Said helper would initialize options_len properly before copying     data into options, however in the GRE ERSPAN code a partial update is done, preventing the use of the     helper function. Before this change the handling of ERSPAN traffic in GRE tunnels would cause a kernel     panic when the kernel is compiled with GCC 15+ and having FORTIFY_SOURCE configured: memcpy: detected     buffer overflow: 4 byte write of buffer size 0 Call Trace: <IRQ> __fortify_panic+0xd/0xf     erspan_rcv.cold+0x68/0x83 ? ip_route_input_slow+0x816/0x9d0 gre_rcv+0x1b2/0x1c0 gre_rcv+0x8e/0x100 ?     raw_v4_input+0x2a0/0x2b0 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x1ea/0x210 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x86/0x110     ip_local_deliver+0x65/0x110 ? ip_rcv_finish_core+0xd6/0x360 ip_rcv+0x186/0x1a0 Reported-at:
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/2129580 (CVE-2025-71128)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
379497	SUSE SLES16 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:24651-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
379474	SUSE SLES16: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:24662-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
302766	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8094-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
284701	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-71128	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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