SUSE SLES12: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-base / kernel-azure-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:0618-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172175

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0618-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2023-23454: Fixed denial or service in cbq_classify in net/sched/sch_cbq.c (bnc#1207036).
- CVE-2023-0590: Fixed race condition in qdisc_graft() (bsc#1207795).
- CVE-2023-0394: Fixed a null pointer dereference flaw in the network subcomponent in the Linux kernel which could lead to system crash (bsc#1207168).
- CVE-2023-0266: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability inside the ALSA PCM package.
SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_{READ|WRITE}32 was missing locks that could have been used in a use-after-free that could have resulted in a priviledge escalation to gain ring0 access from the system user (bsc#1207134).
- CVE-2023-0045: Fixed flush IBP in ib_prctl_set() (bsc#1207773).
- CVE-2022-47929: Fixed NULL pointer dereference bug in the traffic control subsystem (bnc#1207237).
- CVE-2022-4662: Fixed incorrect access control in the USB core subsystem that could lead a local user to crash the system (bnc#1206664).
- CVE-2022-36280: Fixed an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability that was found in vmwgfx driver in drivers/gpu/vmxgfx/vmxgfx_kms.c (bnc#1203332).
- CVE-2022-3564: Fixed use-after-free in l2cap_core.c of the Bluetooth component (bnc#1206073).
- CVE-2022-3108: Fixed missing check of return value of kmemdup() (bnc#1206389).
- CVE-2022-3107: Fixed missing check of return value of kvmalloc_array() (bnc#1206395).

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: 172175

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0618-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/7/2023

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: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0045

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-base, 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: 7/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2022

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3107, CVE-2022-3108, CVE-2022-3564, CVE-2022-36280, CVE-2022-4662, CVE-2022-47929, CVE-2023-0045, CVE-2023-0266, CVE-2023-0394, CVE-2023-0590, CVE-2023-23454

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0618-1

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SUSE SLES12: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-base / kernel-azure-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:0618-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172175

Synopsis

Description

Solution

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Plugin Details

Risk Information

VPR

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

Vulnerability Information

Reference Information