In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: fix memory leaks in gfs2_fill_super error path Fix two memory leaks in the gfs2_fill_super() error handling path when transitioning a filesystem to read-write mode fails. First leak: kthread objects (thread_struct, task_struct, etc.) When gfs2_freeze_lock_shared() fails after init_threads() succeeds, the created kernel threads (logd and quotad) are never destroyed. This occurs because the fail_per_node label doesn't call gfs2_destroy_threads(). Second leak: quota bitmap buffer (8192 bytes) When gfs2_make_fs_rw() fails after gfs2_quota_init() succeeds but before other operations complete, the allocated quota bitmap is never freed. The fix moves thread cleanup to the fail_per_node label to handle all error paths uniformly. gfs2_destroy_threads() is safe to call unconditionally as it checks for NULL pointers. Quota cleanup is added in gfs2_make_fs_rw() to properly handle the withdrawal case where quota initialization succeeds but the filesystem is then withdrawn. Thread leak backtrace (gfs2_freeze_lock_shared failure): unreferenced object 0xffff88801d7bca80 (size 4480): copy_process+0x3a1/0x4670 kernel/fork.c:2422 kernel_clone+0xf3/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:2779 kthread_create_on_node+0x100/0x150 kernel/kthread.c:478 init_threads+0xab/0x350 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:611 gfs2_fill_super+0xe5c/0x1240 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1265 Quota leak backtrace (gfs2_make_fs_rw failure): unreferenced object 0xffff88812de7c000 (size 8192): gfs2_quota_init+0xe5/0x820 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1409 gfs2_make_fs_rw+0x7a/0xe0 fs/gfs2/super.c:149 gfs2_fill_super+0xfbb/0x1240 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1275

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2722-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2025-10263: arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on various Arm CPUs (bsc#1266290).
    - CVE-2025-68822: Input: alps - fix use-after-free bugs caused by dev3_register_work (bsc#1256668).
    - CVE-2026-23392: netfilter: nf_tables: release flowtable after rcu grace period on error (bsc#1260531).
    - CVE-2026-31414: netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: use expect->helper (bsc#1262085).
    - CVE-2026-31429: net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head (bsc#1262392).
    - CVE-2026-31452: ext4: convert inline data to extents when truncate exceeds inline size (bsc#1262620).
    - CVE-2026-31469: virtio_net: Fix UAF on dst_ops when IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE is cleared and napi_tx is false
    - CVE-2026-31492: RDMA/irdma: Initialize free_qp completion before using it (bsc#1262748).
    - CVE-2026-31495: netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks (bsc#1262798).
    - CVE-2026-31499: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix deadlock in l2cap_conn_del() (bsc#1262674).
    - CVE-2026-31500: Bluetooth: btintel: serialize btintel_hw_error() with hci_req_sync_lock (bsc#1262993).
    - CVE-2026-31555: futex: Clear stale exiting pointer in futex_lock_pi() retry path (bsc#1263178).
    - CVE-2026-31560: spi: spi-dw-dma: fix print error log when wait finish transaction (bsc#1263057).
    - CVE-2026-31592: KVM: SEV: Protect *all* of sev_mem_enc_register_region() with kvm->lock (bsc#1263123).
    - CVE-2026-31593: KVM: SEV: Reject attempts to sync VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted vCPU     (bsc#1263124).
    - CVE-2026-31664: string.h: Introduce memset_after() for wiping trailing members/padding (bsc#1263578).
    - CVE-2026-31665: kABI: netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy (bsc#1263137).
    - CVE-2026-31674: netfilter: ip6t_rt: reject oversized addrnr in rt_mt6_check() (bsc#1263568).
    - CVE-2026-31680: net: ipv6: flowlabel: defer exclusive option free until RCU teardown (bsc#1263563).
    - CVE-2026-31693: cifs: some missing initializations on replay (bsc#1267744).
    - CVE-2026-31752: bridge: br_nd_send: validate ND option lengths (bsc#1264045).
    - CVE-2026-31759: usb: ulpi: fix double free in ulpi_register_interface() error path (bsc#1264076).
    - CVE-2026-43023: Bluetooth: SCO: fix race conditions in sco_sock_connect() (bsc#1264137).
    - CVE-2026-43024: netfilter: nf_tables: reject immediate NF_QUEUE verdict (bsc#1263930).
    - CVE-2026-43028: netfilter: x_tables: ensure names are nul-terminated (bsc#1263934).
    - 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-2026-43049: HID: logitech-hidpp: Prevent use-after-free on force feedback initialisation failure     (bsc#1264080).
    - CVE-2026-43077: crypto: algif_aead - Fix minimum RX size check for decryption (bsc#1264470).
    - CVE-2026-43083: net: ioam6: fix OOB and missing lock (bsc#1264266).
    - CVE-2026-43101: ipv6: ioam: fix potential NULL dereferences in __ioam6_fill_trace_data() (bsc#1264239).
    - CVE-2026-43112: fs/smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in cifs_sanitize_prepath (bsc#1264437).
    - CVE-2026-43119: Bluetooth: hci_sync: annotate data-races around hdev->req_status (bsc#1264561).
    - CVE-2026-43158: xfs: fix freemap adjustments when adding xattrs to leaf blocks (bsc#1264595).
    - CVE-2026-43171: EFI/CPER: do not dump the entire memory region (bsc#1264549).
    - CVE-2026-43187: xfs: delete attr leaf freemap entries when empty (bsc#1264603).
    - CVE-2026-43198: tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() (bsc#1264610).
    - CVE-2026-43239: smb: client: prevent races in ->query_interfaces() (bsc#1264444).
    - CVE-2026-43339: ipv6: prevent possible UaF in addrconf_permanent_addr() (bsc#1264763).
    - CVE-2026-43345: net: ipa: fix event ring index not programmed for IPA v5.0+ (bsc#1265103).
    - CVE-2026-43405: libceph: Use u32 for non-negative values in ceph_monmap_decode() (bsc#1264741).
    - CVE-2026-43469: xprtrdma: Decrement re_receiving on the early exit paths (bsc#1265143).
    - CVE-2026-43491: net: qrtr: ns: Limit the maximum server registration per node (bsc#1265628).
    - CVE-2026-45840: openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies (bsc#1266397).
    - CVE-2026-45841: netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix divide-by-zero in OSF_WSS_MODULO (bsc#1266390).
    - CVE-2026-45862: iommu/vt-d: Flush cache for PASID table before using it (bsc#1266705).
    - CVE-2026-45870: SUNRPC: auth_gss: fix memory leaks in XDR decoding error paths (bsc#1266704).
    - CVE-2026-45894: iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down PASID entry (bsc#1266895).
    - CVE-2026-45940: net: stmmac: fix oops when split header is enabled (bsc#1266916).
    - CVE-2026-45961: gfs2: fix memory leaks in gfs2_fill_super error path (bsc#1266933).
    - CVE-2026-45964: SUNRPC: fix gss_auth kref leak in gss_alloc_msg error path (bsc#1266698).
    - CVE-2026-45965: apparmor: fix invalid deref of rawdata when export_binary is unset (bsc#1267208).
    - CVE-2026-45974: btrfs: fix invalid leaf access in btrfs_quota_enable() if ref key not found     (bsc#1266922).
    - CVE-2026-46005: xfs: fix a resource leak in xfs_alloc_buftarg() (bsc#1267431).
    - CVE-2026-46037: ipv4: icmp: validate reply type before using icmp_pointers (bsc#1267361).
    - CVE-2026-46101: netfilter: reject zero shift in nft_bitwise (bsc#1266878).
    - CVE-2026-46119: libceph: Fix slab-out-of-bounds access in auth message processing (bsc#1267628).
    - CVE-2026-46123: Bluetooth: virtio_bt: clamp rx length before skb_put (bsc#1267621).
    - CVE-2026-46150: fanotify: fix false positive on permission events (bsc#1267387).
    - CVE-2026-46160: btrfs: fix missing last_unlink_trans update when removing a directory (bsc#1267624).
    - CVE-2026-46162: ice: fix double free in ice_sf_eth_activate() error path (bsc#1266840).
    - CVE-2026-46172: ipv6: xfrm6: release dst on error in xfrm6_rcv_encap() (bsc#1266903).
    - CVE-2026-46244: netfilter: nft_inner: Fix IPv6 inner_thoff desync (bsc#1267654).
    - CVE-2026-46259: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()     (bsc#1267685).
    - CVE-2026-46273: ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS (bsc#1267651).


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.

  - gfs2: fix memory leaks in gfs2_fill_super error path Fix two memory leaks in the gfs2_fill_super() error     handling path when transitioning a filesystem to read-write mode fails. First leak: kthread objects     (thread_struct, task_struct, etc.) When gfs2_freeze_lock_shared() fails after init_threads() succeeds, the     created kernel threads (logd and quotad) are never destroyed. This occurs because the fail_per_node label     doesn't call gfs2_destroy_threads(). Second leak: quota bitmap buffer (8192 bytes) When gfs2_make_fs_rw()     fails after gfs2_quota_init() succeeds but before other operations complete, the allocated quota bitmap is     never freed. The fix moves thread cleanup to the fail_per_node label to handle all error paths uniformly.
    gfs2_destroy_threads() is safe to call unconditionally as it checks for NULL pointers. Quota cleanup is     added in gfs2_make_fs_rw() to properly handle the withdrawal case where quota initialization succeeds but     the filesystem is then withdrawn. Thread leak backtrace (gfs2_freeze_lock_shared failure): unreferenced     object 0xffff88801d7bca80 (size 4480): copy_process+0x3a1/0x4670 kernel/fork.c:2422     kernel_clone+0xf3/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:2779 kthread_create_on_node+0x100/0x150 kernel/kthread.c:478     init_threads+0xab/0x350 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:611 gfs2_fill_super+0xe5c/0x1240 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1265     Quota leak backtrace (gfs2_make_fs_rw failure): unreferenced object 0xffff88812de7c000 (size 8192):
    gfs2_quota_init+0xe5/0x820 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1409 gfs2_make_fs_rw+0x7a/0xe0 fs/gfs2/super.c:149     gfs2_fill_super+0xfbb/0x1240 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1275 (CVE-2026-45961)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
324872	SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:2722-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
317173	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-45961	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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