The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2232-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2023-2483: Fixed a use after free bug in emac_remove due caused by a race condition (bsc#1211037).
    - CVE-2023-2124: Fixed an out of bound access in the XFS subsystem that could have lead to denial-of-     service or potentially privilege escalation (bsc#1210498).
    - CVE-2023-1670: Fixed a use after free in the Xircom 16-bit PCMCIA Ethernet driver. A local user could     use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system (bsc#1209871).
    - CVE-2017-5753: Fixed spectre V1 vulnerability on netlink (bsc#1209547).
    - CVE-2017-5753: Fixed spectre vulnerability in prlimit (bsc#1209256).
    - CVE-2020-36691: Fixed a denial of service (unbounded recursion) vulnerability via a nested Netlink     policy with a back reference (bsc#1209613 bsc#1209777).
    - 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-2021-3923: Fixed stack information leak vulnerability that could lead to kernel protection bypass in     infiniband RDMA (bsc#1209778).
    - 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() (bsc#1194535).
    - CVE-2022-20567: Fixed use after free that could lead to a local privilege escalation in pppol2tp_create     of l2tp_ppp.c (bsc#1208850).
    - CVE-2022-43945: Fixed a buffer overflow in the NFSD implementation (bsc#1205128).
    - CVE-2023-0590: Fixed race condition in qdisc_graft() (bsc#1207795).
    - CVE-2023-0597: Fixed lack of randomization of per-cpu entry area in x86/mm (bsc#1207845).
    - CVE-2023-1076: Fixed incorrect UID assigned to tun/tap sockets (bsc#1208599).
    - CVE-2023-1095: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in nf_tables due to zeroed list head (bsc#1208777).
    - CVE-2023-1118: Fixed a use-after-free bugs caused by ene_tx_irqsim() in media/rc (bsc#1208837).
    - CVE-2023-1390: Fixed remote DoS vulnerability in tipc_link_xmit() (bsc#1209289).
    - 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-2023-1611: Fixed an use-after-free flaw in btrfs_search_slot (bsc#1209687).
    - CVE-2023-1855: Fixed an use-after-free flaw in xgene_hwmon_remove (bsc#1210202).
    - CVE-2023-1989: Fixed an use-after-free flaw in btsdio_remove (bsc#1210336).
    - CVE-2023-1990: Fixed an use-after-free flaw in ndlc_remove (bsc#1210337).
    - CVE-2023-1998: Fixed an use-after-free flaw during login when accessing the shost ipaddress     (bsc#1210506).
    - CVE-2023-2162: Fixed an use-after-free flaw in iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create (bsc#1210647).
    - CVE-2023-23454: Fixed a type-confusion in the CBQ network scheduler (bsc#1207036).
    - CVE-2023-23455: Fixed a denial of service inside atm_tc_enqueue in net/sched/sch_atm.c because of type     confusion (non-negative numbers can sometimes indicate a TC_ACT_SHOT condition rather than valid     classification results) (bsc#1207125).
    - CVE-2023-28328: Fixed a denial of service issue in az6027 driver in drivers/media/usb/dev-usb/az6027.c     (bsc#1209291).
    - CVE-2023-28464: Fixed user-after-free that could lead to privilege escalation in hci_conn_cleanup in     net/uetooth/hci_conn.c (bsc#1209052).
    - CVE-2023-28772: Fixed buffer overflow in seq_buf_putmem_hex in lib/seq_buf.c (bsc#1209549).
    - CVE-2023-30772: Fixed race condition and resultant use-after-free in da9150_charger_remove     (bsc#1210329).


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 SLES12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / drbd / drbd-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2232-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176058

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Version 1.7 Jun 26, 2026, 4:08 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202606261608
Version 1.6 Sep 25, 2025, 3:39 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework canvas" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202509251539
Version 1.4 Jul 13, 2023, 2:11 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202307131411
Version 1.2 Jul 6, 2023, 8:09 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2020-36691,CVE-2021-3923,CVE-2021-4203,CVE-2022-20567,CVE-2022-43945,CVE-2023-0394,CVE-2023-0590,CVE-2023-0597,CVE-2023-1076,CVE-2023-1095,CVE-2023-1118,CVE-2023-1390,CVE-2023-1513,CVE-2023-1611,CVE-2023-1670,CVE-2023-1855,CVE-2023-1989,CVE-2023-1990,CVE-2023-1998,CVE-2023-2124,CVE-2023-2162,CVE-2023-2483,CVE-2023-23454,CVE-2023-23455,CVE-2023-28328,CVE-2023-28464,CVE-2023-28772,CVE-2023-30772") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202307060809
Version 1.1 May 19, 2023, 2:02 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework canvas" set to "True". "Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202305191402
Version 1.0 May 18, 2023, 1:02 PM New Plugin Feed: 202305181302