The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1992-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2017-5753: Fixed spectre V1 vulnerability on netlink (bsc#1209547).
    - CVE-2017-5753: Fixed spectre vulnerability in prlimit (bsc#1209256).
    - CVE-2022-4744: Fixed double-free that could lead to DoS or privilege escalation in TUN/TAP device driver     functionality (bsc#1209635).
    - 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-2023-1281: Fixed use after free that could lead to privilege escalation in tcindex (bsc#1209634).
    - CVE-2023-1513: Fixed an uninitialized portions of the kvm_debugregs structure that could be copied to     userspace, causing an information leak (bsc#1209532).
    - CVE-2023-1582: Fixed soft lockup in __page_mapcount (bsc#1209636).
    - CVE-2023-1611: Fixed an use-after-free flaw in btrfs_search_slot (bsc#1209687).
    - CVE-2023-1637: Fixed vulnerability that could lead to unauthorized access to CPU memory after resuming     CPU from suspend-to-RAM (bsc#1209779, bsc#1198400).
    - CVE-2023-1652: Fixed use-after-free that could lead to DoS and information leak in nfsd4_ssc_setup_dul     in fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c (bsc#1209788).
    - CVE-2023-1838: Fixed an use-after-free flaw in virtio network subcomponent. This flaw could allow a     local attacker to crash the system and lead to a kernel information leak problem. (bsc#1210203).
    - CVE-2023-23001: Fixed misinterpretation of regulator_get return value in drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs-mediatek.c     (bsc#1208829).
    - CVE-2023-28327: Fixed DoS in in_skb in unix_diag_get_exact() (bsc#1209290).
    - CVE-2023-28464: Fixed user-after-free that could lead to privilege escalation in hci_conn_cleanup in     net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c (bsc#1209052).
    - CVE-2023-28466: Fixed race condition that could lead to use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference in     do_tls_getsockopt in net/tls/tls_main.c (bsc#1209366).


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.

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SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-rt / dlm-kmp-rt / gfs2-kmp-rt / kernel-devel-rt / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:1992-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174778

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Jun 26, 2026, 4:08 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202606261608
Version 1.3 Jul 13, 2023, 2:11 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202307131411
Version 1.1 Apr 27, 2023, 6:00 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202304271800
Version 1.0 Apr 26, 2023, 12:00 PM New Plugin Feed: 202304261200