SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3450-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165564

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3450-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2022-39188: Fixed race condition in include/asm-generic/tlb.h where a device driver can free a page while it still has stale TLB entries (bnc#1203107).
- CVE-2022-2663: Fixed an issue that was found in nf_conntrack_irc where the message handling could be confused and incorrectly matches the message (bnc#1202097).
- CVE-2022-3028: Fixed race condition that was found in the IP framework for transforming packets (XFRM subsystem) (bnc#1202898).
- CVE-2020-27784: Fixed a vulnerability that was found in printer_ioctl() printer_ioctl() when accessing a deallocated instance (bnc#1202895).
- CVE-2021-4155: Fixed a data leak flaw that was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem (bnc#1194272).
- CVE-2022-2905: Fixed tnum_range usage on array range checking for poke descriptors (bsc#1202564, bsc#1202860).
- CVE-2022-2977: Fixed reference counting for struct tpm_chip (bsc#1202672).
- CVE-2021-4203: Fixed use-after-free read flaw that was found in sock_getsockopt() in net/core/sock.c due to SO_PEERCRED and SO_PEERGROUPS race with listen() (bnc#1194535).
- CVE-2022-2588: Fixed use-after-free in cls_route (bsc#1202096).
- CVE-2022-1012: Fixed a memory leak problem that was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c (bnc#1199482).
- CVE-2022-36879: Fixed an issue in xfrm_expand_policies in net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c where a refcount could be dropped twice (bnc#1201948).
- CVE-2022-20368: Fixed slab-out-of-bounds access in packet_recvmsg() (bsc#1202346).
- CVE-2022-20369: Fixed out of bounds write in v4l2_m2m_querybuf of v4l2-mem2mem.c (bnc#1202347).
- CVE-2022-26373: Fixed non-transparent sharing of return predictor targets between contexts in some Intel Processors (bnc#1201726).
- CVE-2016-3695: Fixed an issue inside the einj_error_inject function in drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c that allowed users to simulate hardware errors and consequently cause a denial of service (bnc#1023051).
- CVE-2022-2639: Fixed an integer coercion error that was found in the openvswitch kernel module (bnc#1202154).
- CVE-2020-36516: Fixed an issue in the mixed IPID assignment method where an attacker was able to inject data into or terminate a victim's TCP session (bnc#1196616).
- CVE-2022-32250: Fixed a privilege escalation issue in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c that allowed a local user to became root (bnc#1200015)
- CVE-2022-29581: Fixed improper update of reference count vulnerability in net/sched that allowed a local attacker to cause privilege escalation to root (bnc#1199665).
- CVE-2022-20166: Fixed possible out of bounds write due to a heap buffer overflow in various methods of kernel base drivers (bnc#1200598).

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: 165564

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3450-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/29/2022

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: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1012

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, 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-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-macros, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_129-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-preempt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-preempt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-default, 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: 9/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/29/2017

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3695, CVE-2020-27784, CVE-2020-36516, CVE-2021-4155, CVE-2021-4203, CVE-2022-1012, CVE-2022-20166, CVE-2022-20368, CVE-2022-20369, CVE-2022-2588, CVE-2022-26373, CVE-2022-2639, CVE-2022-2663, CVE-2022-2905, CVE-2022-29581, CVE-2022-2977, CVE-2022-3028, CVE-2022-32250, CVE-2022-36879, CVE-2022-39188

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3450-1

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