SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-azure / dlm-kmp-azure / gfs2-kmp-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:2741-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164061

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2741-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2022-36946: Fixed an incorrect packet trucation operation which could lead to denial of service (bnc#1201940).
- CVE-2022-29581: Fixed improper update of reference count in net/sched that could cause root privilege escalation (bnc#1199665).
- CVE-2022-20166: Fixed several possible memory safety issues due to unsafe operations (bsc#1200598).
- CVE-2020-36558: Fixed a race condition involving VT_RESIZEX which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference and general protection fault (bnc#1200910).
- CVE-2020-36557: Fixed a race condition between the VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl and closing/opening of TTYs that could lead to a use-after-free (bnc#1201429).
- CVE-2021-33655: Fixed an out of bounds write by ioctl cmd FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO (bnc#1201635).
- CVE-2021-33656: Fixed an out of bounds write related to ioctl cmd PIO_FONT (bnc#1201636).
- CVE-2022-21505: Fixed a kernel lockdown bypass via IMA policy (bsc#1201458).
- CVE-2022-1462: Fixed an out-of-bounds read flaw in the TTY subsystem (bnc#1198829).
- CVE-2022-1116: Fixed an integer overflow vulnerability in io_uring which allowed a local attacker to escalate privileges to root (bnc#1199647).- CVE-2022-2318: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the timer handler in Rose subsystem that allowed unprivileged attackers to crash the system (bsc#1201251).
- CVE-2022-26365, CVE-2022-33740, CVE-2022-33741, CVE-2022-33742: Fixed multiple potential data leaks with Block and Network devices when using untrusted backends (bsc#1200762).

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: 164061

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2741-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/11/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

Percentile: 99.86

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32250

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 8/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36557, CVE-2020-36558, CVE-2021-33655, CVE-2021-33656, CVE-2022-1116, CVE-2022-1462, CVE-2022-20166, CVE-2022-21505, CVE-2022-2318, CVE-2022-26365, CVE-2022-29581, CVE-2022-32250, CVE-2022-33740, CVE-2022-33741, CVE-2022-33742, CVE-2022-36946

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2741-1

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