A Improper Access Control vulnerability in the kernel of SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 breaks nftables, causing firewall rules applied via nftables to not be effective.This issue affects SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: from 9e6d9d4601768c75fdb0bad3fbbe636e748939c2 before 9c294edb7085fb91650bc12233495a8974c5ff2d.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1078-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2022-50453: gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences (bsc#1250887).
    - CVE-2023-53794: cifs: fix session state check in reconnect to avoid use-after-free issue (bsc#1255163).
    - CVE-2023-53802: wifi: ath9k: htc_hst: free skb in ath9k_htc_rx_msg() if there is no callback function     (bsc#1254725).
    - CVE-2023-53808: wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read() (bsc#1254723).
    - CVE-2023-53816: drm/amdkfd: fix potential kgd_mem UAFs (bsc#1254958).
    - CVE-2023-53817: crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui() (bsc#1254992).
    - CVE-2023-53827: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_disconnect_{req,rsp} (bsc#1255049).
    - CVE-2023-54184: scsi: target: iscsit: Free cmds before session free (bsc#1255991).
    - CVE-2025-21738: ata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer (bsc#1238917).
    - CVE-2025-22083: vhost-scsi: Fix handling of multiple calls to vhost_scsi_set_endpoint (bsc#1241414).
    - CVE-2025-22125: md/raid1,raid10: do not ignore IO flags (bsc#1241596).
    - CVE-2025-39748: bpf: Forget ranges when refining tnum after JSET (bsc#1249587).
    - CVE-2025-39817: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare (bsc#1249998).
    - CVE-2025-39964: crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg (bsc#1251966).
    - CVE-2025-39998: scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow     (bsc#1252073).
    - CVE-2025-40099: cifs: parse_dfs_referrals: prevent oob on malformed input (bsc#1252911).
    - CVE-2025-40103: smb: client: Fix refcount leak for cifs_sb_tlink (bsc#1252924).
    - CVE-2025-40219: PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV (bsc#1254518).
    - CVE-2025-40220: fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers (bsc#1254520).
    - CVE-2025-40242: gfs2: Fix unlikely race in gdlm_put_lock (bsc#1255075).
    - CVE-2025-40342: nvme-fc: use lock accessing port_state and rport state (bsc#1255274).
    - CVE-2025-68223: drm/radeon: delete radeon_fence_process in is_signaled, no deadlock (bsc#1255357).
    - CVE-2025-68234: scsi: imm: Fix use-after-free bug caused by unfinished delayed work (bsc#1255416).
    - CVE-2025-68283: libceph: replace BUG_ON with bounds check for map->max_osd (bsc#1255379).
    - CVE-2025-68285: libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map() (bsc#1255401).
    - CVE-2025-68287: usb: dwc3: Fix race condition between concurrent dwc3_remove_requests() call paths     (bsc#1255152).
    - CVE-2025-68295: smb: client: fix memory leak in cifs_construct_tcon() (bsc#1255129).
    - CVE-2025-68724: crypto: asymmetric_keys - prevent overflow in asymmetric_key_generate_id (bsc#1255550).
    - CVE-2025-68818: scsi: qla2xxx: Perform lockless command completion in abort path (bsc#1256675).
    - CVE-2025-71075: scsi: aic94xx: fix use-after-free in device removal path (bsc#1256629).
    - CVE-2025-71104: KVM: x86: Fix VM hard lockup after prolonged inactivity with periodic HV timer     (bsc#1256708).
    - CVE-2025-71113: crypto: af_alg - zero initialize memory allocated via sock_kmalloc (bsc#1256716).
    - CVE-2025-71116: libceph: make decode_pool() more resilient against corrupted osdmaps (bsc#1256744).
    - CVE-2025-71131: crypto: seqiv - Do not use req->iv after crypto_aead_encrypt (bsc#1256742).
    - CVE-2025-71183: btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs (bsc#1257631).
    - CVE-2025-71184: btrfs: fix NULL dereference on root when tracing inode eviction (bsc#1257635).
    - CVE-2025-71194: btrfs: fix deadlock in wait_current_trans() due to ignored transaction type     (bsc#1257687).
    - CVE-2025-71224: wifi: mac80211: ocb: skip rx_no_sta when interface is not joined (bsc#1258824).
    - CVE-2025-71236: scsi: qla2xxx: Validate sp before freeing associated memory (bsc#1258442).
    - CVE-2026-22991: libceph: make free_choose_arg_map() resilient to partial allocation (bsc#1257220).
    - CVE-2026-22998: nvme-tcp: fix NULL pointer dereferences in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec (bsc#1257209).
    - CVE-2026-23004: dst: fix races in rt6_uncached_list_del() and rt_del_uncached_list() (bsc#1257231).
    - CVE-2026-23054: net: hv_netvsc: reject RSS hash key programming without RX indirection table     (bsc#1257732).
    - CVE-2026-23060: crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec     (bsc#1257735).
    - CVE-2026-23064: net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref (bsc#1257765).
    - CVE-2026-23069: vsock/virtio: fix potential underflow in virtio_transport_get_credit() (bsc#1257755).
    - CVE-2026-23074: net/sched: Enforce that teql can only be used as root qdisc (bsc#1257749).
    - CVE-2026-23083: fou: Don't allow 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO (bsc#1257745).
    - CVE-2026-23084: be2net: Fix NULL pointer dereference in be_cmd_get_mac_from_list (bsc#1257830).
    - CVE-2026-23085: irqchip/gic-v3-its: Avoid truncating memory addresses (bsc#1257758).
    - CVE-2026-23086: vsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size (bsc#1257757).
    - CVE-2026-23089: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix use-after-free in snd_usb_mixer_free() (bsc#1257790).
    - CVE-2026-23095: gue: Fix skb memleak with inner IP protocol 0 (bsc#1257808).
    - CVE-2026-23099: bonding: limit BOND_MODE_8023AD to Ethernet devices (bsc#1257816).
    - CVE-2026-23105: net/sched: qfq: Use cl_is_active to determine whether class is active in qfq_rm_from_ag     (bsc#1257775).
    - CVE-2026-23112: nvmet-tcp: add bounds checks in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec (bsc#1258184).
    - CVE-2026-23125: sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT (bsc#1258293).
    - CVE-2026-23141: btrfs: send: check for inline extents in range_is_hole_in_parent() (bsc#1258377).
    - CVE-2026-23191: ALSA: aloop: Fix racy access at PCM trigger (bsc#1258395).
    - CVE-2026-23198: KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd (bsc#1258321).
    - CVE-2026-23204: net/sched: cls_u32: use skb_header_pointer_careful() (bsc#1258340).
    - CVE-2026-23208: ALSA: usb-audio: Prevent excessive number of frames (bsc#1258468).
    - CVE-2026-23209: macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink() (bsc#1258518).
    - CVE-2026-23268: apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management (bsc#1258850).
    - CVE-2026-23269: apparmor: validate DFA start states are in bounds in unpack_pdb (bsc#1259857).


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  - A Improper Access Control vulnerability in the kernel of SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 breaks     nftables, causing firewall rules applied via nftables to not be effective.This issue affects SUSE Linux     Enterprise Server: from 9e6d9d4601768c75fdb0bad3fbbe636e748939c2 before     9c294edb7085fb91650bc12233495a8974c5ff2d. (CVE-2026-25702)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
303947	SUSE SLES12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:1078-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
301147	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-25702	Nessus	Misc.	critical

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