SUSE SLES15: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-devel / kernel-devel-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2646-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152479

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2646-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2021-3659: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in llsec_key_alloc() in net/mac802154/llsec.c (bsc#1188876).
- CVE-2021-21781: Fixed a information disclosure vulnerability in the ARM SIGPAGE (bsc#1188445).
- CVE-2021-22543: Fixed improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM, which could bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allowed users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and can result in local privilege escalation (bsc#1186482).
- CVE-2021-37576: Fixed an issue on the powerpc platform, where a KVM guest OS user could cause host OS memory corruption via rtas_args.nargs (bsc#1188838).

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152479

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2646-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/11/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37576

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22543

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel-azure, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21781, CVE-2021-22543, CVE-2021-3659, CVE-2021-37576

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2646-1

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SUSE SLES15: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-devel / kernel-devel-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2646-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152479

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Description

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Plugin Details

Risk Information

VPR

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4

Vulnerability Information

Reference Information