SUSE SLES12: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-base / kernel-azure-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0113-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189168

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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-2024:0113-1 advisory.

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

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2023-6610: Fixed an out of bounds read in the SMB client when printing debug information (bsc#1217946).
- CVE-2022-2586: Fixed a use-after-free which can be triggered when a nft table is deleted (bsc#1202095).
- CVE-2023-51779: Fixed a use-after-free because of a bt_sock_ioctl race condition in bt_sock_recvmsg (bsc#1218559).
- CVE-2020-26555: Fixed Bluetooth legacy BR/EDR PIN code pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 1.0B that may permit an unauthenticated nearby device to spoof the BD_ADDR of the peer device to complete pairing without knowledge of the PIN (bsc#1179610 bsc#1215237).
- CVE-2023-6931: Fixed a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Performance Events system component that could lead to local privilege escalation. (bsc#1218258).
- CVE-2023-6606: Fixed an out of bounds read in the SMB client when receiving a malformed length from a server (bsc#1217947).
- CVE-2023-6932: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component that could lead to local privilege escalation (bsc#1218253).
- CVE-2023-6121: Fixed an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem that could lead to information leak (bsc#1217250).

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: 189168

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0113-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/18/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

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: 7.7

Percentile: 99.08

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26555

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2586

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: 1/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 7/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26555, CVE-2022-2586, CVE-2023-51779, CVE-2023-6121, CVE-2023-6606, CVE-2023-6610, CVE-2023-6931, CVE-2023-6932

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0113-1

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