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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 5 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2022:4542-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168900

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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-2022:4542-1 advisory.

 This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150400_24_33 fixes several issues.

 The following security issues were fixed:

 - CVE-2022-43945: Fixed a buffer overflow in the NFSD implementation (bsc#1205128).
 - CVE-2022-4378: Fixed stack overflow in __do_proc_dointvec (bsc#1206207).
 - CVE-2022-4139: Fixed an issue with the i915 driver that allowed the GPU to access any physical memory (bsc#1205700).
 - CVE-2021-39698: Fixed a use-after-free in aio_poll_complete_work of aio.c (bsc#1196956).

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_24_33-default package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1196959

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205130

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205815

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1206228

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39698

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4139

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4378

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43945

http://www.nessus.org/u?f13b0288

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 168900

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4542-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2022

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: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.37

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-39698

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4378

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_33-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: 12/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-39698, CVE-2022-4139, CVE-2022-4378, CVE-2022-43945

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4542-1