In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse() bond_header_parse() can loop if a stack of two bonding devices is setup, because skb->dev always points to the hierarchy top. Add new "const struct net_device *dev" parameter to (struct header_ops)->parse() method to make sure the recursion is bounded, and that the final leaf parse method is called.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2914-1 advisory.

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

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2023-53995: net: ipv4: fix one memleak in __inet_del_ifa() (bsc#1255616).
    - CVE-2026-23255: net: add proper RCU protection to /proc/net/ptype (bsc#1259891).
    - CVE-2026-23451: bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse() (bsc#1261604).
    - CVE-2026-31462: drm/amdgpu: prevent immediate PASID reuse case (bsc#1262655).
    - CVE-2026-31499: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix deadlock in l2cap_conn_del() (bsc#1262674).
    - CVE-2026-31502: team: fix header_ops type confusion with non-Ethernet ports (bsc#1263072).
    - CVE-2026-31592: KVM: SEV: Protect *all* of sev_mem_enc_register_region() with kvm->lock (bsc#1263123).
    - CVE-2026-31670: net: rfkill: prevent unlimited numbers of rfkill events from being created     (bsc#1263573).
    - CVE-2026-31677: crypto: af_alg - limit RX SG extraction by receive buffer budget (bsc#1263560).
    - CVE-2026-31680: net: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown (bsc#1263563).
    - CVE-2026-31773: Bluetooth: SMP: derive legacy responder STK authentication from MITM state     (bsc#1264039).
    - CVE-2026-31781: drm/ioc32: stop speculation on the drm_compat_ioctl path (bsc#1264033).
    - CVE-2026-43035: net: sched: cls_api: fix tc_chain_fill_node to initialize tcm_info to zero to prevent an     info-leak       (bsc#1263996).
    - CVE-2026-43036: net: use skb_header_pointer() for TCPv4 GSO frag_off check (bsc#1263993).
    - CVE-2026-43043: crypto: af-alg - fix NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk (bsc#1264088).
    - CVE-2026-43047: HID: multitouch: Check to ensure report responses match the request (bsc#1264073).
    - CVE-2026-43051: HID: wacom: fix out-of-bounds read in wacom_intuos_bt_irq (bsc#1264065).
    - CVE-2026-43080: l2tp: Drop large packets with UDP encap (bsc#1264236).
    - CVE-2026-43089: xfrm_user: fix info leak in build_mapping() (bsc#1264261).
    - CVE-2026-43093: xsk: tighten UMEM headroom validation to account for tailroom and min frame     (bsc#1264254).
    - CVE-2026-43112: fs/smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in cifs_sanitize_prepath (bsc#1264437).
    - CVE-2026-43117: btrfs: tracepoints: get correct superblock from dentry in event btrfs_sync_file()     (bsc#1264414).
    - CVE-2026-43139: xfrm6: fix uninitialized saddr in xfrm6_get_saddr() (bsc#1264294).
    - CVE-2026-43233: netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() (bsc#1264337).
    - CVE-2026-43279: ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing (bsc#1264618).
    - CVE-2026-43336: lib/crypto: chacha: Zeroize permuted_state before it leaves scope (bsc#1265113).
    - CVE-2026-43456: bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave() (bsc#1264734).
    - CVE-2026-43472: unshare: fix unshare_fs() handling (bsc#1264748).
    - CVE-2026-43492: lib/crypto: mpi: Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() (bsc#1265629).
    - CVE-2026-45840: openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies (bsc#1266397).
    - CVE-2026-45912: ext4: don't cache extent during splitting extent (bsc#1266899).
    - CVE-2026-45948: ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_ext_shift_extents() (bsc#1266929).
    - CVE-2026-45960: hfsplus: return error when node already exists in hfs_bnode_create (bsc#1266971).
    - CVE-2026-46028: crypto: algif_aead - snapshot IV for async AEAD requests (bsc#1267430).
    - CVE-2026-46065: fbdev: defio: Disconnect deferred I/O from the lifetime of struct (bsc#1267458).
    - CVE-2026-46069: wifi: mwifiex: fix use-after-free in mwifiex_adapter_cleanup() (bsc#1267437).
    - CVE-2026-46082: KVM: SVM: Inject #UD for INVLPGA if EFER.SVME=0 (bsc#1267473).
    - CVE-2026-46124: isofs: validate block number from NFS file handle in isofs_export_iget (bsc#1266847).
    - CVE-2026-46133: RDMA/rxe: Reject unknown opcodes before ICRC processing (bsc#1266928).
    - CVE-2026-46253: pstore/ram: fix buffer overflow in persistent_ram_save_old() (bsc#1267635).
    - CVE-2026-46254: AppArmor: Allow apparmor to handle unaligned dfa tables (bsc#1267637).
    - CVE-2026-46266: inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP (bsc#1267684).
    - CVE-2026-46275: Bluetooth: hci_uart: fix UAFs and race conditions in close and init paths (bsc#1267968).
    - CVE-2026-46299: hfsplus: fix held lock freed on hfsplus_fill_super() (bsc#1267920).
    - CVE-2026-46320: tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp() (bsc#1267993).
    - CVE-2026-46328: apparmor: fix rlimit for posix cpu timers (bsc#1268037).
    - CVE-2026-46331: net/sched: fix pedit partial COW leading to page cache (bsc#1265421).
    - CVE-2026-52918: Bluetooth: serialize accept_q access (bsc#1269100).
    - CVE-2026-52923: ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range (bsc#1269033).
    - CVE-2026-52954: libceph: handle rbtree insertion error in decode_choose_args() (bsc#1269137).
    - CVE-2026-52955: libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in crush_decode() (bsc#1269159).
    - CVE-2026-52957: libceph: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in decode_choose_args() (bsc#1269103).
    - CVE-2026-52962: ceph: fix a buffer leak in __ceph_setxattr() (bsc#1269135).
    - CVE-2026-52972: crypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000 (bsc#1269195).
    - CVE-2026-53040: ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan (bsc#1269397).
    - CVE-2026-53041: ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full (bsc#1269398).
    - CVE-2026-53075: ppp: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in target netns for unattached ioctls (bsc#1269690).
    - CVE-2026-53148: thunderbolt: Clamp XDomain response data copy to allocation size (bsc#1269786).
    - CVE-2026-53150: thunderbolt: Reject zero-length property entries in validator (bsc#1269386).
    - CVE-2026-53194: USB: serial: kl5kusb105: fix bulk-out buffer overflow (bsc#1269904).
    - CVE-2026-53253: Bluetooth: bnep: fix incorrect length parsing in bnep_rx_frame() extension handling     (bsc#1269574).
    - CVE-2026-53287: audit: fix incorrect inheritable capability in CAPSET records (bsc#1269506).
    - CVE-2026-53359: KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected role (bsc#1270059).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - btrfs: tracepoints: fix sleep while in atomic context in btrfs_sync_file() (git-fixes).
    - libceph: add non-asserting rbtree insertion helper (bsc#1269137).

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.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bonding: prevent potential infinite     loop in bond_header_parse() bond_header_parse() can loop if a stack of two bonding devices is setup,     because skb->dev always points to the hierarchy top. Add new const struct net_device *dev parameter to     (struct header_ops)->parse() method to make sure the recursion is bounded, and that the final leaf parse     method is called. (CVE-2026-23451)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
326705	SUSE SLES12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:2914-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
326000	SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:2800-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
305182	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-23451	Nessus	Misc.	high

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