The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3929-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - Unprivileged BPF has been disabled by default to reduce attack surface as too many security issues have     happened in the past (jsc#SLE-22573)

      You can reenable via systemctl setting /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled to 0.
    (kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled = 0)

    - CVE-2017-5753: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may     have allowed unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-     channel analysis (bnc#1068032). Additional spectrev1 fixes were added to the eBPF code.
    - CVE-2018-13405: The inode_init_owner function in fs/inode.c allowed local users to create files with an     unintended group ownership, in a scenario where a directory is SGID to a certain group and is writable by     a user who is not a member of that group. Here, the non-member can trigger creation of a plain file whose     group ownership is that group. The intended behavior was that the non-member can trigger creation of a     directory (but not a plain file) whose group ownership is that group. The non-member can escalate     privileges by making the plain file executable and SGID (bnc#1087082 bnc#1100416 bnc#1129735).
    - CVE-2018-16882: A use-after-free issue was found in the way the KVM hypervisor processed posted     interrupts when nested(=1) virtualization is enabled. In nested_get_vmcs12_pages(), in case of an error     while processing posted interrupt address, it unmaps the 'pi_desc_page' without resetting 'pi_desc'     descriptor address, which is later used in pi_test_and_clear_on(). A guest user/process could use this     flaw to crash the host kernel resulting in DoS or potentially gain privileged access to a system. Kernel     versions and are vulnerable (bnc#1119934).
    - CVE-2020-0429: In l2tp_session_delete and related functions of l2tp_core.c, there is possible memory     corruption due to a use after free. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution     privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation (bnc#1176724).
    - CVE-2020-12655: An issue was discovered in xfs_agf_verify in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c in the Linux     kernel Attackers may trigger a sync of excessive duration via an XFS v5 image with crafted metadata, aka     CID-d0c7feaf8767 (bnc#1171217).
    - CVE-2020-14305: An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in how the Linux kernel's Voice Over     IP H.323 connection tracking functionality handled connections on ipv6 port 1720. This flaw allowed an     unauthenticated remote user to crash the system, causing a denial of service. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability (bnc#1173346).
    - CVE-2020-3702: Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors in a WLAN device     that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure     over the air for a discrete set of traffic (bnc#1191193).
    - CVE-2021-20265: A flaw was found in the way memory resources were freed in the unix_stream_recvmsg     function in the Linux kernel when a signal was pending. This flaw allowed an unprivileged local user to     crash the system by exhausting available memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system     availability (bnc#1183089).
    - CVE-2021-31916: An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory write flaw was found in list_devices in drivers/md/dm-     ioctl.c in the Multi-device driver module in the Linux kernel A bound check failure allowed an attacker     with special user (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) privilege to gain access to out-of-bounds memory leading to a system     crash or a leak of internal kernel information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system     availability (bnc#1192781).
    - CVE-2021-33033: The Linux kernel has a use-after-free in cipso_v4_genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c     because the CIPSO and CALIPSO refcounting for the DOI definitions is mishandled, aka CID-ad5d07f4a9cd.
    This leads to writing an arbitrary value (bnc#1186109 bnc#1186390 bnc#1188876).
    - CVE-2021-34556: In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because the protection     mechanism neglects the possibility of uninitialized memory locations on the BPF stack (bnc#1188983).
    - CVE-2021-34981: Fixed file refcounting in cmtp when cmtp_attach_device fails  (bsc#1191961).
    - CVE-2021-3542: Fixed heap buffer overflow in firedtv driver (bsc#1186063).
    - CVE-2021-35477: In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because a certain     preempting store operation did not necessarily occur before a store operation that has an attacker-     controlled value (bnc#1188985).
    - CVE-2021-3640: Fixed a Use-After-Free vulnerability in function sco_sock_sendmsg() in the bluetooth     stack (bsc#1188172).
    - CVE-2021-3653: A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw     occurs when processing the VMCB (virtual machine control block) provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a     nested guest (L2). Due to improper validation of the 'int_ctl' field, this issue could allow a malicious     L1 to enable AVIC support (Advanced Virtual Interrupt Controller) for the L2 guest. As a result, the L2     guest would be allowed to read/write physical pages of the host, resulting in a crash of the entire     system, leak of sensitive data or potential guest-to-host escape. (bnc#1189399).
    - CVE-2021-3655: A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in versions prior to v5.14-rc1. Missing     size validations on inbound SCTP packets may have allowed the kernel to read uninitialized memory     (bnc#1188563).
    - CVE-2021-3659: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in llsec_key_alloc() in net/mac802154/llsec.c     (bsc#1188876).
    - CVE-2021-3679: A lack of CPU resource in the tracing module functionality was found in the way user uses     trace ring buffer in a specific way. Only privileged local users (with CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability) could use     this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service (bnc#1189057).
    - CVE-2021-37159: hso_free_net_device in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel calls unregister_netdev     without checking for the NETREG_REGISTERED state, leading to a use-after-free and a double free     (bnc#1188601).
    - CVE-2021-3715: Fixed a use-after-free in route4_change() in net/sched/cls_route.c (bsc#1190349).
    - CVE-2021-3732: Mounting overlayfs inside an unprivileged user namespace can reveal files (bsc#1189706).
    - CVE-2021-3752: Fixed a use after free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's bluetooth module.
    (bsc#1190023)
    - CVE-2021-3753: Fixed race out-of-bounds in virtual terminal handling (bsc#1190025).
    - CVE-2021-37576: arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_rtas.c on the powerpc platform allowed KVM guest OS users to     cause host OS memory corruption via rtas_args.nargs, aka CID-f62f3c20647e (bnc#1188838 bnc#1190276).
    - CVE-2021-3760: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability with the ndev->rf_conn_info object (bsc#1190067).
    - CVE-2021-3772: Fixed sctp vtag check in sctp_sf_ootb (bsc#1190351).
    - CVE-2021-38160: Data corruption or loss could be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a     buf->len value exceeding the buffer size in drivers/char/virtio_console.c (bsc#1190117)
    - CVE-2021-38198: arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h incorrectly computed the access permissions of a shadow     page, leading to a missing guest protection page fault (bnc#1189262).
    - CVE-2021-38204: drivers/usb/host/max3421-hcd.c allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (use-after-free and panic) by removing a MAX-3421 USB device in certain situations     (bnc#1189291).
    - CVE-2021-3896: Fixed a array-index-out-bounds in detach_capi_ctr in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c     (bsc#1191958).
    - CVE-2021-40490: A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the     ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel (bnc#1190159)
    - CVE-2021-42008: The decode_data function in drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c in the Linux kernel has a slab     out-of-bounds write. Input from a process that has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability can lead to root access     (bnc#1191315).
    - CVE-2021-42739: The firewire subsystem in the Linux kernel has a buffer overflow related to     drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c and drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c, because avc_ca_pmt     mishandled bounds checking (bnc#1184673).
    - CVE-2021-43389: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel There was an array-index-out-of-bounds flaw     in the detach_capi_ctr function in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c (bnc#1191958).
    - - ipv4: make exception cache less predictible (bsc#1191790,  CVE-2021-20322).


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.

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SUSE SLES12: kernel-default / kernel-default-base / kernel-default-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3929-1)

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