SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:01620-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237098

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01620-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2022-48933: netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak during stateful obj update (bsc#1229621).
- CVE-2022-49110: netfilter: conntrack: revisit gc autotuning (bsc#1237981).
- CVE-2022-49139: Bluetooth: fix null ptr deref on hci_sync_conn_complete_evt (bsc#1238032).
- CVE-2022-49767: 9p/trans_fd: always use O_NONBLOCK read/write (bsc#1242493).
- CVE-2024-46763: fou: Fix null-ptr-deref in GRO (bsc#1230764).
- CVE-2024-50038: netfilter: xtables: avoid NFPROTO_UNSPEC where needed (bsc#1231910).
- CVE-2025-21726: padata: avoid UAF for reorder_work (bsc#1238865).
- CVE-2025-21785: arm64: cacheinfo: Avoid out-of-bounds write to cacheinfo array (bsc#1238747).
- CVE-2025-21791: vrf: use RCU protection in l3mdev_l3_out() (bsc#1238512).
- CVE-2025-21812: ax25: rcu protect dev->ax25_ptr (bsc#1238471).
- CVE-2025-21839: KVM: x86: Load DR6 with guest value only before entering .vcpu_run() loop (bsc#1239061).
- CVE-2025-22004: net: atm: fix use after free in lec_send() (bsc#1240835).
- CVE-2025-22020: memstick: rtsx_usb_ms: Fix slab-use-after-free in rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove (bsc#1241280).
- CVE-2025-22045: x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (bsc#1241433).
- CVE-2025-22055: net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow (bsc#1241371).
- CVE-2025-22097: drm/vkms: Fix use after free and double free on init error (bsc#1241541).
- CVE-2025-2312: CIFS: New mount option for cifs.upcall namespace resolution (bsc#1239684).
- CVE-2025-23138: watch_queue: fix pipe accounting mismatch (bsc#1241648).
- CVE-2025-39735: jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ea_get() (bsc#1241625).

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: 237098

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01620-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/22/2025

Updated: 5/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22020

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-macros, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_103-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-47671, CVE-2022-48933, CVE-2022-49110, CVE-2022-49139, CVE-2022-49741, CVE-2022-49745, CVE-2022-49767, CVE-2023-52928, CVE-2023-52931, CVE-2023-52936, CVE-2023-52937, CVE-2023-52938, CVE-2023-52981, CVE-2023-52982, CVE-2023-52986, CVE-2023-52994, CVE-2023-53001, CVE-2023-53002, CVE-2023-53009, CVE-2023-53014, CVE-2023-53018, CVE-2023-53031, CVE-2023-53051, CVE-2024-42307, CVE-2024-46763, CVE-2024-46865, CVE-2024-50038, CVE-2025-21726, CVE-2025-21785, CVE-2025-21791, CVE-2025-21812, CVE-2025-21839, CVE-2025-22004, CVE-2025-22020, CVE-2025-22045, CVE-2025-22055, CVE-2025-22097, CVE-2025-2312, CVE-2025-23138, CVE-2025-39735

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01620-1

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