In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() has a loop like: wb_get(new_wb); while (1) { list = llist_del_all(&new_wb->switch_wbs_ctxs); /* Nothing to do? */ if (!list) break; ... process the items ... } Now adding of items to the list looks like: wb_queue_isw() if (llist_add(&isw->list, &wb->switch_wbs_ctxs)) queue_work(isw_wq, &wb->switch_work); Because inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() loops when processing isw items, it can happen that wb->switch_work is pending while wb->switch_wbs_ctxs is empty. This is a problem because in that case wb can get freed (no isw items -> no wb reference) while the work is still pending causing use-after-free issues. We cannot just fix this by cancelling work when freeing wb because that could still trigger problematic 0 -> 1 transitions on wb refcount due to wb_get() in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn(). It could be all handled with more careful code but that seems unnecessarily complex so let's avoid that until it is proven that the looping actually brings practical benefit. Just remove the loop from inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() instead. That way when wb_queue_isw() queues work, we are guaranteed we have added the first item to wb->switch_wbs_ctxs and nobody is going to remove it (and drop the wb reference it holds) until the queued work runs.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:22099-1 advisory.

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

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2026-23254: net: gro: fix outer network offset (bsc#1259884).
    - CVE-2026-23303: smb: client: Don't log plaintext credentials in cifs_set_cifscreds (bsc#1260502).
    - CVE-2026-23327: cxl/mbox: validate payload size before accessing       contents in cxl_payload_from_user_allowed() (bsc#1260548).
    - CVE-2026-23438: net: mvpp2: guard flow control update with global_tx_fc in buffer switching     (bsc#1261619).
    - CVE-2026-31396: net: macb: fix use-after-free access to PTP clock (bsc#1261791).
    - CVE-2026-31401: HID: bpf: prevent buffer overflow in hid_hw_request (bsc#1261603).
    - CVE-2026-31446: ext4: fix use-after-free in update_super_work when racing with umount (bsc#1262619).
    - CVE-2026-31448: ext4: avoid infinite loops caused by residual data (bsc#1262622).
    - CVE-2026-31454: xfs: save ailp before dropping the AIL lock in push callbacks (bsc#1262624).
    - CVE-2026-31455: xfs: stop reclaim before pushing AIL during unmount (bsc#1262615).
    - CVE-2026-31518: esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto (bsc#1262606).
    - CVE-2026-31546: net: bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_debug_rlb_hash_show (bsc#1263006).
    - CVE-2026-31556: xfs: scrub: unlock dquot before early return in quota scrub (bsc#1263062).
    - CVE-2026-31562: drm/mediatek: dsi: Store driver data before invoking mipi_dsi_host_register     (bsc#1263058).
    - CVE-2026-31584: media: mediatek: vcodec: fix use-after-free in encoder release path (bsc#1263180).
    - CVE-2026-31645: net: lan966x: fix page pool leak in error paths (bsc#1263794).
    - CVE-2026-31648: mm: filemap: fix nr_pages calculation overflow in filemap_map_pages() (bsc#1263579).
    - CVE-2026-31655: pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: Keep the NOC_HDCP clock enabled (bsc#1263724).
    - CVE-2026-31671: xfrm_user: fix info leak in build_report() (bsc#1263115).
    - CVE-2026-31683: batman-adv: avoid OGM aggregation when skb tailroom is insufficient (bsc#1263594).
    - CVE-2026-31703: writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() (bsc#1263883).
    - CVE-2026-31774: io_uring/net: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in io_bundle_nbufs() (bsc#1264040).
    - CVE-2026-43026: netfilter: ctnetlink: zero expect NAT fields when CTA_EXPECT_NAT absent (bsc#1263932).
    - CVE-2026-43030: bpf: Fix regsafe() for pointers to packet (bsc#1264000).
    - CVE-2026-43040: net: ipv6: ndisc: fix ndisc_ra_useropt to initialize       nduseropt_padX fields to zero to prevent an info-leak (bsc#1264091).
    - CVE-2026-43063: xfs: don't irele after failing to iget in xfs_attri_recover_work (bsc#1264196).
    - CVE-2026-43065: ext4: always drain queued discard work in ext4_mb_release() (bsc#1264243).
    - CVE-2026-43066: ext4: fix iloc.bh leak in ext4_fc_replay_inode() error paths (bsc#1264245).
    - CVE-2026-43068: ext4: avoid allocate block from corrupted group in ext4_mb_find_by_goal() (bsc#1264255).
    - CVE-2026-43109: x86: shadow stacks: proper error handling for mmap lock (bsc#1264484).
    - CVE-2026-43150: perf/arm-cmn: Reject unsupported hardware configurations (bsc#1264415).
    - CVE-2026-43184: rnbd-srv: Zero the rsp buffer before using it (bsc#1264622).
    - CVE-2026-43197: netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated (bsc#1264609).
    - CVE-2026-43332: thermal: core: Fix thermal zone device registration error path (bsc#1265114).
    - CVE-2026-43393: btrfs: fix chunk map leak in btrfs_map_block() after btrfs_chunk_map_num_copies()     (bsc#1264723).
    - CVE-2026-43394: nfsd: Fix cred ref leak in nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() (bsc#1265081).
    - CVE-2026-43411: tipc: fix divide-by-zero in tipc_sk_filter_connect() (bsc#1264672).
    - CVE-2026-43455: net: mctp: Ensure keys maintain only one ref to corresponding dev (bsc#1264765).
    - CVE-2026-45842: slip: reject VJ receive packets on instances with no rstate array (bsc#1266400).
    - CVE-2026-45846: bareudp: fix NULL pointer dereference in bareudp_fill_metadata_dst() (bsc#1266394).
    - CVE-2026-45852: RDMA/rxe: Fix double free in rxe_srq_from_init (bsc#1266711).
    - CVE-2026-45856: RDMA/uverbs: Validate wqe_size before using it in ib_uverbs_post_send (bsc#1266720).
    - CVE-2026-45886: bpf: Fix bpf_xdp_store_bytes proto for read-only arg (bsc#1266810).
    - CVE-2026-45898: RDMA/iwcm: Fix workqueue list corruption by removing work_list (bsc#1266888).
    - CVE-2026-45910: RDMA/rxe: Fix race condition in QP timer handlers (bsc#1266889).
    - CVE-2026-45932: bpf: Fix tcx/netkit detach permissions when prog fd isn't given (bsc#1266827).
    - CVE-2026-45942: ext4: fix e4b bitmap inconsistency reports (bsc#1266914).
    - CVE-2026-45970: bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down (bsc#1267205).
    - CVE-2026-45984: gfs2: Fix use-after-free in iomap inline data write path (bsc#1267214).
    - CVE-2026-46021: thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues (bsc#1267220).
    - CVE-2026-46043: RDMA/rxe: Validate pad and ICRC before payload_size() in rxe_rcv (bsc#1266901).
    - CVE-2026-46083: spi: fix resource leaks on device setup failure (bsc#1266696).
    - CVE-2026-46090: ALSA: aloop: Use guard() for spin locks (bsc#1267531).
    - CVE-2026-46094: ext4: fix bounds check in check_xattrs() to prevent out-of-bounds access (bsc#1266927).
    - CVE-2026-46114: RDMA/rxe: Reject non-8-byte ATOMIC_WRITE payloads (bsc#1266972).
    - CVE-2026-46159: btrfs: fix btrfs_ioctl_space_info() slot_count TOCTOU which can lead to info-leak     (bsc#1267652).
    - CVE-2026-46176: RDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init() (bsc#1266816).
    - CVE-2026-46181: RDMA/mlx4: Fix mis-use of RCU in mlx4_srq_event() (bsc#1266826).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - accel/ivpu: Add bounds checks for firmware log indices (git-fixes).
    - accel/ivpu: Add buffer overflow check in MS get_info_ioctl (git-fixes).
    - ALSA: PCM: Fix wait queue list corruption in snd_pcm_drain() on linked streams (git-fixes).
    - ALSA: seq: dummy: fix UMP event stack overread (git-fixes).
    - arm64: tlb: Allow XZR argument to TLBI ops (git-fixes).
    - arm64: tlb: Optimize ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: bnep: reject short frames before parsing (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: hci_sync: reject oversized Broadcast Announcement prepend (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: ISO: Fix not releasing hdev reference on iso_conn_big_sync (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix backward compatibility with userspace (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: MGMT: validate advertising TLV before type checks (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: RFCOMM: hold listener socket in rfcomm_connect_ind() (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: RFCOMM: validate skb length in MCC handlers (git-fixes).
    - config: remove DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT
    - debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode (bsc#1265186).
    - debugfs: Fix default access mode config check (bsc#1265186).
    - debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode (bsc#1265186).
    - debugfs: Remove redundant access mode checks (bsc#1265186).
    - drm/amd/display: Bound VBIOS record-chain walk loops (git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/display: Clamp HDMI HDCP2 rx_id_list read to buffer size (git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/display: Fix NULL deref and buffer over-read in SDP debugfs (git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/display: Reject gpio_bitshift >= 32 in bios_parser_get_gpio_pin_info() (git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/display: Use krealloc_array() in dal_vector_reserve() (git-fixes).
    - drm/amdkfd: Fix buffer overflow in SDMA queue checkpoint/restore on GFX11 (git-fixes).
    - drm/amdkfd: fix NULL dereference in get_queue_ids() (git-fixes).
    - drm/imx: Fix three kernel-doc warnings in dcss-scaler.c (git-fixes).
    - drm/v3d: Fix vaddr leak when indirect CSD has zeroed workgroups (git-fixes).
    - drm/xe: Clear pending_disable before signaling suspend fence (git-fixes).
    - ima: return error early if file xattr cannot be changed (bsc#1261041).
    - Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for HONOR BCC-N's internal keyboard (git-fixes).
    - KVM: arm64: Reassign nested_mmus array behind mmu_lock (git-fixes).
    - KVM: arm64: Take the SRCU lock for page table walks in fault injection and AT emulation (git-fixes).
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Drop the translation cache reference only for the erased entry (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Check PSC request indices against the actual size of the buffer (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Compute the correct max length of the in-GHCB scratch area (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Don't explicitly pass PSC buffer to snp_begin_psc() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Ignore MMIO requests of length '0' (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Ignore Port I/O requests of length '0' (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Reject MMIO requests larger than 8 bytes with GHCB v2+ (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Require in-GHCB scratch area if GHCB v2+ is in use (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Use READ_ONCE() when reading entries/indices from PSC buffer (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Use the size of the PSC header as the minimum size for PSC requests (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: WARN if KVM attempts to setup scratch area with min_len==0 (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SVM: Convert plain error code numbers to defines (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SVM: Flush the current TLB when transitioning from xAVIC => x2AVIC (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SVM: Provide helpers to set the error code (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Consolidate SEV-ES MMIO emulation into a single public API (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Dedup kvm_sev_es_mmio_{read,write}() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Harden SEV-ES MMIO against on-stack use-after-free (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Move MMIO write tracing into vcpu_mmio_write() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Open code handling of completed MMIO reads in emulator_read_write() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Open code read vs. write userspace MMIO exits in emulator_read_write() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Trace unsatisfied MMIO reads on a per-page basis (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Use local MMIO fragment variable to clean up emulator_read_write() (git-fixes).
    - mmc: core: Fix host controller programming for fixed driver type (git-fixes).
    - mmc: dw_mmc-rockchip: Add missing private data for very old controllers (git-fixes).
    - mmc: litex_mmc: Set mandatory idle clocks before CMD0 (git-fixes).
    - mmc: litex_mmc: Use DIV_ROUND_UP for more accurate clock calculation (git-fixes).
    - mmc: renesas_sdhi: Add OF entry for RZ/G2H SoC (git-fixes).
    - mmc: sdhci: add signal voltage switch in sdhci_resume_host (git-fixes).
    - wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap (git-fixes).
    - wifi: nl80211: reject oversized EMA RNR lists (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 remote SUSE Linux SLES16 / SLES_SAP16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:22127-1 advisory.

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

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2026-23254: net: gro: fix outer network offset (bsc#1259884).
    - CVE-2026-23303: smb: client: Don't log plaintext credentials in cifs_set_cifscreds (bsc#1260502).
    - CVE-2026-23327: cxl/mbox: validate payload size before accessing       contents in cxl_payload_from_user_allowed() (bsc#1260548).
    - CVE-2026-23438: net: mvpp2: guard flow control update with global_tx_fc in buffer switching     (bsc#1261619).
    - CVE-2026-31396: net: macb: fix use-after-free access to PTP clock (bsc#1261791).
    - CVE-2026-31401: HID: bpf: prevent buffer overflow in hid_hw_request (bsc#1261603).
    - CVE-2026-31446: ext4: fix use-after-free in update_super_work when racing with umount (bsc#1262619).
    - CVE-2026-31448: ext4: avoid infinite loops caused by residual data (bsc#1262622).
    - CVE-2026-31454: xfs: save ailp before dropping the AIL lock in push callbacks (bsc#1262624).
    - CVE-2026-31455: xfs: stop reclaim before pushing AIL during unmount (bsc#1262615).
    - CVE-2026-31518: esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto (bsc#1262606).
    - CVE-2026-31546: net: bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_debug_rlb_hash_show (bsc#1263006).
    - CVE-2026-31556: xfs: scrub: unlock dquot before early return in quota scrub (bsc#1263062).
    - CVE-2026-31562: drm/mediatek: dsi: Store driver data before invoking mipi_dsi_host_register     (bsc#1263058).
    - CVE-2026-31584: media: mediatek: vcodec: fix use-after-free in encoder release path (bsc#1263180).
    - CVE-2026-31645: net: lan966x: fix page pool leak in error paths (bsc#1263794).
    - CVE-2026-31648: mm: filemap: fix nr_pages calculation overflow in filemap_map_pages() (bsc#1263579).
    - CVE-2026-31655: pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: Keep the NOC_HDCP clock enabled (bsc#1263724).
    - CVE-2026-31671: xfrm_user: fix info leak in build_report() (bsc#1263115).
    - CVE-2026-31683: batman-adv: avoid OGM aggregation when skb tailroom is insufficient (bsc#1263594).
    - CVE-2026-31703: writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() (bsc#1263883).
    - CVE-2026-31774: io_uring/net: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in io_bundle_nbufs() (bsc#1264040).
    - CVE-2026-43026: netfilter: ctnetlink: zero expect NAT fields when CTA_EXPECT_NAT absent (bsc#1263932).
    - CVE-2026-43030: bpf: Fix regsafe() for pointers to packet (bsc#1264000).
    - CVE-2026-43040: net: ipv6: ndisc: fix ndisc_ra_useropt to initialize       nduseropt_padX fields to zero to prevent an info-leak (bsc#1264091).
    - CVE-2026-43063: xfs: don't irele after failing to iget in xfs_attri_recover_work (bsc#1264196).
    - CVE-2026-43065: ext4: always drain queued discard work in ext4_mb_release() (bsc#1264243).
    - CVE-2026-43066: ext4: fix iloc.bh leak in ext4_fc_replay_inode() error paths (bsc#1264245).
    - CVE-2026-43068: ext4: avoid allocate block from corrupted group in ext4_mb_find_by_goal() (bsc#1264255).
    - CVE-2026-43109: x86: shadow stacks: proper error handling for mmap lock (bsc#1264484).
    - CVE-2026-43150: perf/arm-cmn: Reject unsupported hardware configurations (bsc#1264415).
    - CVE-2026-43184: rnbd-srv: Zero the rsp buffer before using it (bsc#1264622).
    - CVE-2026-43197: netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated (bsc#1264609).
    - CVE-2026-43332: thermal: core: Fix thermal zone device registration error path (bsc#1265114).
    - CVE-2026-43393: btrfs: fix chunk map leak in btrfs_map_block() after btrfs_chunk_map_num_copies()     (bsc#1264723).
    - CVE-2026-43394: nfsd: Fix cred ref leak in nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() (bsc#1265081).
    - CVE-2026-43411: tipc: fix divide-by-zero in tipc_sk_filter_connect() (bsc#1264672).
    - CVE-2026-43455: net: mctp: Ensure keys maintain only one ref to corresponding dev (bsc#1264765).
    - CVE-2026-45842: slip: reject VJ receive packets on instances with no rstate array (bsc#1266400).
    - CVE-2026-45846: bareudp: fix NULL pointer dereference in bareudp_fill_metadata_dst() (bsc#1266394).
    - CVE-2026-45852: RDMA/rxe: Fix double free in rxe_srq_from_init (bsc#1266711).
    - CVE-2026-45856: RDMA/uverbs: Validate wqe_size before using it in ib_uverbs_post_send (bsc#1266720).
    - CVE-2026-45886: bpf: Fix bpf_xdp_store_bytes proto for read-only arg (bsc#1266810).
    - CVE-2026-45898: RDMA/iwcm: Fix workqueue list corruption by removing work_list (bsc#1266888).
    - CVE-2026-45910: RDMA/rxe: Fix race condition in QP timer handlers (bsc#1266889).
    - CVE-2026-45932: bpf: Fix tcx/netkit detach permissions when prog fd isn't given (bsc#1266827).
    - CVE-2026-45942: ext4: fix e4b bitmap inconsistency reports (bsc#1266914).
    - CVE-2026-45970: bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down (bsc#1267205).
    - CVE-2026-45984: gfs2: Fix use-after-free in iomap inline data write path (bsc#1267214).
    - CVE-2026-46021: thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues (bsc#1267220).
    - CVE-2026-46043: RDMA/rxe: Validate pad and ICRC before payload_size() in rxe_rcv (bsc#1266901).
    - CVE-2026-46083: spi: fix resource leaks on device setup failure (bsc#1266696).
    - CVE-2026-46090: ALSA: aloop: Use guard() for spin locks (bsc#1267531).
    - CVE-2026-46094: ext4: fix bounds check in check_xattrs() to prevent out-of-bounds access (bsc#1266927).
    - CVE-2026-46114: RDMA/rxe: Reject non-8-byte ATOMIC_WRITE payloads (bsc#1266972).
    - CVE-2026-46159: btrfs: fix btrfs_ioctl_space_info() slot_count TOCTOU which can lead to info-leak     (bsc#1267652).
    - CVE-2026-46176: RDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init() (bsc#1266816).
    - CVE-2026-46181: RDMA/mlx4: Fix mis-use of RCU in mlx4_srq_event() (bsc#1266826).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - accel/ivpu: Add bounds checks for firmware log indices (git-fixes).
    - accel/ivpu: Add buffer overflow check in MS get_info_ioctl (git-fixes).
    - ALSA: PCM: Fix wait queue list corruption in snd_pcm_drain() on linked streams (git-fixes).
    - ALSA: seq: dummy: fix UMP event stack overread (git-fixes).
    - arm64: tlb: Allow XZR argument to TLBI ops (git-fixes).
    - arm64: tlb: Optimize ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: bnep: reject short frames before parsing (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: hci_sync: reject oversized Broadcast Announcement prepend (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: ISO: Fix not releasing hdev reference on iso_conn_big_sync (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix backward compatibility with userspace (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: MGMT: validate advertising TLV before type checks (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: RFCOMM: hold listener socket in rfcomm_connect_ind() (git-fixes).
    - Bluetooth: RFCOMM: validate skb length in MCC handlers (git-fixes).
    - config: remove DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT
    - debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode (bsc#1265186).
    - debugfs: Fix default access mode config check (bsc#1265186).
    - debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode (bsc#1265186).
    - debugfs: Remove redundant access mode checks (bsc#1265186).
    - drm/amd/display: Bound VBIOS record-chain walk loops (git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/display: Clamp HDMI HDCP2 rx_id_list read to buffer size (git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/display: Fix NULL deref and buffer over-read in SDP debugfs (git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/display: Reject gpio_bitshift >= 32 in bios_parser_get_gpio_pin_info() (git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/display: Use krealloc_array() in dal_vector_reserve() (git-fixes).
    - drm/amdkfd: Fix buffer overflow in SDMA queue checkpoint/restore on GFX11 (git-fixes).
    - drm/amdkfd: fix NULL dereference in get_queue_ids() (git-fixes).
    - drm/imx: Fix three kernel-doc warnings in dcss-scaler.c (git-fixes).
    - drm/v3d: Fix vaddr leak when indirect CSD has zeroed workgroups (git-fixes).
    - drm/xe: Clear pending_disable before signaling suspend fence (git-fixes).
    - ima: return error early if file xattr cannot be changed (bsc#1261041).
    - Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for HONOR BCC-N's internal keyboard (git-fixes).
    - KVM: arm64: Reassign nested_mmus array behind mmu_lock (git-fixes).
    - KVM: arm64: Take the SRCU lock for page table walks in fault injection and AT emulation (git-fixes).
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Drop the translation cache reference only for the erased entry (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Check PSC request indices against the actual size of the buffer (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Compute the correct max length of the in-GHCB scratch area (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Don't explicitly pass PSC buffer to snp_begin_psc() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Ignore MMIO requests of length '0' (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Ignore Port I/O requests of length '0' (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Reject MMIO requests larger than 8 bytes with GHCB v2+ (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Require in-GHCB scratch area if GHCB v2+ is in use (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Use READ_ONCE() when reading entries/indices from PSC buffer (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: Use the size of the PSC header as the minimum size for PSC requests (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SEV: WARN if KVM attempts to setup scratch area with min_len==0 (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SVM: Convert plain error code numbers to defines (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SVM: Flush the current TLB when transitioning from xAVIC => x2AVIC (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SVM: Provide helpers to set the error code (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Consolidate SEV-ES MMIO emulation into a single public API (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Dedup kvm_sev_es_mmio_{read,write}() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Harden SEV-ES MMIO against on-stack use-after-free (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Move MMIO write tracing into vcpu_mmio_write() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Open code handling of completed MMIO reads in emulator_read_write() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Open code read vs. write userspace MMIO exits in emulator_read_write() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Trace unsatisfied MMIO reads on a per-page basis (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Use local MMIO fragment variable to clean up emulator_read_write() (git-fixes).
    - mmc: core: Fix host controller programming for fixed driver type (git-fixes).
    - mmc: dw_mmc-rockchip: Add missing private data for very old controllers (git-fixes).
    - mmc: litex_mmc: Set mandatory idle clocks before CMD0 (git-fixes).
    - mmc: litex_mmc: Use DIV_ROUND_UP for more accurate clock calculation (git-fixes).
    - mmc: renesas_sdhi: Add OF entry for RZ/G2H SoC (git-fixes).
    - mmc: sdhci: add signal voltage switch in sdhci_resume_host (git-fixes).
    - wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap (git-fixes).
    - wifi: nl80211: reject oversized EMA RNR lists (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.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1693 advisory.

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

    af_unix: Give up GC if MSG_PEEK intervened. (CVE-2026-23394)

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

    ipv6: add NULL checks for idev in SRv6 paths (CVE-2026-23442)

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

    netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations (CVE-2026-31407)

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

    netfilter: ipset: drop logically empty buckets in mtype_del (CVE-2026-31418)

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

    net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head (CVE-2026-31429)

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

    X.509: Fix out-of-bounds access when parsing extensions (CVE-2026-31430)

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

    ipv4: nexthop: allocate skb dynamically in rtm_get_nexthop() (CVE-2026-31531)

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

    can: raw: fix ro->uniq use-after-free in raw_rcv() (CVE-2026-31532)

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

    net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption (CVE-2026-31533)

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

    mm/userfaultfd: fix hugetlb fault mutex hash calculation (CVE-2026-31575)

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

    wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit (CVE-2026-31579)

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

    bcache: fix cached_dev.sb_bio use-after-free and crash (CVE-2026-31580)

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

    mm: blk-cgroup: fix use-after-free in cgwb_release_workfn() (CVE-2026-31586)

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

    KVM: x86: Use scratch field in MMIO fragment to hold small write values (CVE-2026-31588)

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

    KVM: SEV: Lock all vCPUs when synchronzing VMSAs for SNP launch finish (CVE-2026-31591)

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

    KVM: SEV: Protect *all* of sev_mem_enc_register_region() with kvm->lock (CVE-2026-31592)

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

    KVM: SEV: Reject attempts to sync VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted vCPU (CVE-2026-31593)

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

    arm64: mm: Handle invalid large leaf mappings correctly (CVE-2026-31600)

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

    usbip: validate number_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit() (CVE-2026-31607)

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

    smb: client: fix OOB reads parsing symlink error response (CVE-2026-31613)

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

    smb: client: fix off-by-8 bounds check in check_wsl_eas() (CVE-2026-31614)

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

    HID: core: clamp report_size in s32ton() to avoid undefined shift (CVE-2026-31624)

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

    HID: alps: fix NULL pointer dereference in alps_raw_event() (CVE-2026-31625)

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

    x86/CPU: Fix FPDSS on Zen1 (CVE-2026-31628)

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

    rxrpc: fix reference count leak in rxrpc_server_keyring() (CVE-2026-31634)

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

    rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets (CVE-2026-31637)

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

    mm: filemap: fix nr_pages calculation overflow in filemap_map_pages() (CVE-2026-31648)

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

    mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc repeat_call_control if damon_call() fails (CVE-2026-31653)

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

    drm/i915/gt: fix refcount underflow in intel_engine_park_heartbeat (CVE-2026-31656)

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

    tipc: fix bc_ackers underflow on duplicate GRP_ACK_MSG (CVE-2026-31662)

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

    xfrm: hold dev ref until after transport_finish NF_HOOK (CVE-2026-31663)

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

    xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire() (CVE-2026-31664)

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

    netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy (CVE-2026-31665)

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

    btrfs: fix incorrect return value after changing leaf in lookup_extent_data_ref() (CVE-2026-31666)

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

    Input: uinput - fix circular locking dependency with ff-core (CVE-2026-31667)

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

    seg6: separate dst_cache for input and output paths in seg6 lwtunnel (CVE-2026-31668)

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

    mptcp: fix slab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established (CVE-2026-31669)

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

    xfrm_user: fix info leak in build_report() (CVE-2026-31671)

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

    af_unix: read UNIX_DIAG_VFS data under unix_state_lock (CVE-2026-31673)

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

    netfilter: xt_multiport: validate range encoding in checkentry (CVE-2026-31681)

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

    net: sched: act_csum: validate nested VLAN headers (CVE-2026-31684)

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

    netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for all packets (CVE-2026-31685)

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

    EDAC/mc: Fix error path ordering in edac_mc_alloc() (CVE-2026-31689)

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

    igb: remove napi_synchronize() in igb_down() (CVE-2026-31691)

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

    rtnetlink: add missing netlink_ns_capable() check for peer netns (CVE-2026-31692)

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

    fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache (CVE-2026-31694)

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

    net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in tpacket_snd() (CVE-2026-31700)

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

    writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() (CVE-2026-31703)

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

    smb: client: fix OOB read in smb2_ioctl_query_info QUERY_INFO path (CVE-2026-31708)

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

    fuse: abort on fatal signal during sync init (CVE-2026-31713)

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

    fs/ntfs3: validate rec->used in journal-replay file record check (CVE-2026-31716)

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

    crypto: krb5enc - fix async decrypt skipping hash verification (CVE-2026-31719)

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

    dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two (CVE-2026-43071)

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

    x86-64: rename misleadingly named '__copy_user_nocache()' function (CVE-2026-43073)

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

    eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period (CVE-2026-43074)

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

    perf/x86/intel/uncore: Skip discovery table for offline dies (CVE-2026-43079)

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

    net: ioam6: fix OOB and missing lock (CVE-2026-43083)

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

    netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: make hash table per queue (CVE-2026-43084)

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

    netfilter: nfnetlink_log: initialize nfgenmsg in NLMSG_DONE terminator (CVE-2026-43085)

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

    ipvs: fix NULL deref in ip_vs_add_service error path (CVE-2026-43086)

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

    xfrm_user: fix info leak in build_mapping() (CVE-2026-43089)

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

    xfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find (CVE-2026-43090)

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

    xfrm: Wait for RCU readers during policy netns exit (CVE-2026-43091)

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

    xsk: validate MTU against usable frame size on bind (CVE-2026-43092)

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

    xsk: tighten UMEM headroom validation to account for tailroom and min frame (CVE-2026-43093)

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

    ixgbevf: add missing negotiate_features op to Hyper-V ops table (CVE-2026-43094)

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

    ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe() (CVE-2026-43099)

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

    bridge: guard local VLAN-0 FDB helpers against NULL vlan group (CVE-2026-43100)

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

    ipv6: ioam: fix potential NULL dereferences in __ioam6_fill_trace_data() (CVE-2026-43101)

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

    xfrm: account XFRMA_IF_ID in aevent size calculation (CVE-2026-43107)

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

    x86: shadow stacks: proper error handling for mmap lock (CVE-2026-43109)

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

    fs/smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in cifs_sanitize_prepath (CVE-2026-43112)

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

    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: don't return non-matching entry on expiry (CVE-2026-43114)

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

    netfilter: ctnetlink: ensure safe access to master conntrack (CVE-2026-43116)

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

    btrfs: tracepoints: get correct superblock from dentry in event btrfs_sync_file() (CVE-2026-43117)

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

    btrfs: fix zero size inode with non-zero size after log replay (CVE-2026-43118)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on     shared skb frags

    Dirty Frag and other issues in Amazon Linux kernels:https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-     bulletins/2026-027-aws/ (CVE-2026-43284)

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

    smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits (CVE-2026-43350)

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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() has a loop like:
    wb_get(new_wb); while (1) { list = llist_del_all(&new_wb->switch_wbs_ctxs); /* Nothing to do? */ if     (!list) break; ... process the items ... } Now adding of items to the list looks like: wb_queue_isw() if     (llist_add(&isw->list, &wb->switch_wbs_ctxs)) queue_work(isw_wq, &wb->switch_work); Because     inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() loops when processing isw items, it can happen that wb->switch_work is pending     while wb->switch_wbs_ctxs is empty. This is a problem because in that case wb can get freed (no isw items
    -> no wb reference) while the work is still pending causing use-after-free issues. We cannot just fix this     by cancelling work when freeing wb because that could still trigger problematic 0 -> 1 transitions on wb     refcount due to wb_get() in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn(). It could be all handled with more careful code but     that seems unnecessarily complex so let's avoid that until it is proven that the looping actually brings     practical benefit. Just remove the loop from inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() instead. That way when     wb_queue_isw() queues work, we are guaranteed we have added the first item to wb->switch_wbs_ctxs and     nobody is going to remove it (and drop the wb reference it holds) until the queued work runs.
    (CVE-2026-31703)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
321697	SUSE SLES16 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:22099-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
321588	SUSE SLES16 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:22127-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
313525	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool6.18, kernel6.18, kernel6.18-devel (ALAS2023-2026-1693)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
311602	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-31703	Nessus	Misc.	high

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