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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 28 for SLE 12 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2022:3372-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 165452

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2022:3372-1 advisory.

 This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-95_102 fixes one issue.

 The following security issue was fixed:

 - CVE-2022-39188: Fixed a race condition between unmap_mapping_range() and munmap() on VM_PFNMAP mappings leads to stale TLB entry (bsc#1203116).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected kgraft-patch-4_12_14-95_102-default package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1203116

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39188

http://www.nessus.org/u?82f41f2a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 165452

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3372-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/26/2022

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-39188

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_12_14-95_102-default

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39188

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3372-1