SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 0 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2022:4113-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167947

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4113-1 advisory.

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150400_22 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2021-33655: Fixed out of bounds write with ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO (bnc#1201635).
- CVE-2022-1882: Fixed a use-after-free flaw in free_pipe_info() that could allow a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system (bsc#1199904).
- CVE-2022-2588: Fixed use-after-free in cls_route (bsc#1202096).
- CVE-2022-2959: Fixed a race condition that was found inside the watch queue due to a missing lock in pipe_resize_ring() (bnc#1202681).
- CVE-2022-42703: Fixed use-after-free in mm/rmap.c related to leaf anon_vma double reuse (bnc#1204168).
- CVE-2022-42722: Fixed crash in beacon protection for P2P-device. (bsc#1204125)

- Fixed incorrect handling of empty arguments array in execve() (bsc#1200571).

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 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_22-default package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167947

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4113-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/19/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

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-2022-1882

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2588

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_22-default

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: 11/18/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2022

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Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33655, CVE-2022-1882, CVE-2022-2588, CVE-2022-2959, CVE-2022-42703, CVE-2022-42722

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4113-1

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