SUSE SLES15: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-devel / kernel-devel-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3337-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 154099

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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-2021:3337-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2020-3702: Fixed a bug which could be triggered with specifically timed and handcrafted traffic and cause internal errors in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure. (bnc#1191193)
- CVE-2021-3752: Fixed a use after free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's bluetooth module.
(bsc#1190023)
- CVE-2021-40490: Fixed a race condition discovered in the ext4 subsystem that could leat to local priviledge escalation. (bnc#1190159)
- CVE-2021-3744: Fixed a bug which could allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (bsc#1189884)
- CVE-2021-3764: Fixed a bug which could allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (bsc#1190534)
- CVE-2021-3669: Fixed a bug that doesn't allow /proc/sysvipc/shm to scale with large shared memory segment counts which could lead to resource exhaustion and DoS. (bsc#1188986)

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: 154099

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3337-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/13/2021

Updated: 6/26/2026

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: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3752

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-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: 10/12/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3702, CVE-2021-3669, CVE-2021-3744, CVE-2021-3752, CVE-2021-3764, CVE-2021-40490

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3337-1

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