SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:2078-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 162239

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Synopsis

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

Description

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-2022:2078-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2022-0168: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in smb2_ioctl_query_info. (bsc#1197472)
- CVE-2022-20008: Fixed bug that allows to read kernel heap memory due to uninitialized data in mmc_blk_read_single of block.c. (bnc#1199564)
- CVE-2022-1972: Fixed a buffer overflow in nftable that could lead to privilege escalation. (bsc#1200019)
- CVE-2022-21127: Fixed a stale MMIO data transient which can be exploited to speculatively/transiently disclose information via spectre like attacks. (bsc#1199650)
- CVE-2022-21123: Fixed a stale MMIO data transient which can be exploited to speculatively/transiently disclose information via spectre like attacks. (bsc#1199650)
- CVE-2022-21125: Fixed a stale MMIO data transient which can be exploited to speculatively/transiently disclose information via spectre like attacks. (bsc#1199650)
- CVE-2022-21180: Fixed a stale MMIO data transient which can be exploited to speculatively/transiently disclose information via spectre like attacks. (bsc#1199650)
- CVE-2022-21166: Fixed a stale MMIO data transient which can be exploited to speculatively/transiently disclose information via spectre like attacks. (bsc#1199650)
- CVE-2019-19377: Fixed an user-after-free that could be triggered when an attacker mounts a crafted btrfs filesystem image. (bnc#1158266)
- CVE-2022-1729: Fixed a sys_perf_event_open() race condition against self (bsc#1199507).
- CVE-2022-1184: Fixed an use-after-free and memory errors in ext4 when mounting and operating on a corrupted image. (bsc#1198577)
- CVE-2022-1652: Fixed a statically allocated error counter inside the floppy kernel module (bsc#1199063).
- CVE-2022-30594: Fixed restriction bypass on setting the PT_SUSPEND_SECCOMP flag (bnc#1199505).
- CVE-2021-33061: Fixed insufficient control flow management for the Intel(R) 82599 Ethernet Controllers and Adapters that may have allowed an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access (bnc#1196426).

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: 162239

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2078-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/15/2022

Updated: 9/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2022-1652

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 Score Source: CVE-2022-30594

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_71-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-macros, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-preempt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-preempt-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-preempt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-extra, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb

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: 6/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19377, CVE-2021-33061, CVE-2022-0168, CVE-2022-1184, CVE-2022-1652, CVE-2022-1729, CVE-2022-20008, CVE-2022-21123, CVE-2022-21125, CVE-2022-21127, CVE-2022-21166, CVE-2022-21180, CVE-2022-30594

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2078-1

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