The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2501-1 advisory.

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


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2023-2269: Fixed a denial-of-service problem due to a possible recursive locking scenario, resulting     in a deadlock in table_clear in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c (bsc#1210806).
    - CVE-2022-3566: Fixed race condition in the TCP Handler (bsc#1204405).
    - CVE-2022-45886: Fixed a .disconnect versus dvb_device_open race condition in dvb_net.c that lead to a     use-after-free (bsc#1205760).
    - CVE-2022-45885: Fixed a race condition in dvb_frontend.c that could cause a use-after-free when a device     is disconnected (bsc#1205758).
    - CVE-2022-45887: Fixed a memory leak in ttusb_dec.c caused by the lack of a dvb_frontend_detach call     (bsc#1205762).
    - CVE-2022-45919: Fixed a use-after-free in dvb_ca_en50221.c that could occur if there is a disconnect     after an open, because of the lack of a wait_event (bsc#1205803).
    - CVE-2022-45884: Fixed a use-after-free in dvbdev.c, related to dvb_register_device dynamically     allocating fops (bsc#1205756).
    - CVE-2023-31084: Fixed a blocking issue in drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c (bsc#1210783).
    - CVE-2023-31436: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in qfq_change_class() because lmax can exceed QFQ_MIN_LMAX     (bsc#1210940 bsc#1211260).
    - CVE-2023-2194: Fixed an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the SLIMpro I2C device driver     (bsc#1210715).
    - CVE-2023-32269: Fixed a use-after-free in af_netrom.c, related to the fact that accept() was also     allowed for a successfully connected AF_NETROM socket (bsc#1211186).
    - 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).
    - CVE-2023-1380: Fixed a slab-out-of-bound read problem in brcmf_get_assoc_ies() (bsc#1209287).
    - CVE-2023-2513: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the ext4 filesystem (bsc#1211105).
    - CVE-2023-2483: Fixed a use after free bug in emac_remove due caused by a race condition (bsc#1211037).
    - CVE-2023-2176: Fixed an out-of-boundary read in compare_netdev_and_ip in drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c     in RDMA (bsc#1210629).


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-rt / dlm-kmp-rt / gfs2-kmp-rt / kernel-devel-rt / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2501-1)

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