SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240812

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-2025:01982-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2021-32399: Fixed a race condition when removing the HCI controller (bsc#1184611).
- 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-2022-49320: dmaengine: zynqmp_dma: In struct zynqmp_dma_chan fix desc_size data type (bsc#1238394).
- CVE-2022-49767: 9p/trans_fd: always use O_NONBLOCK read/write (bsc#1242493).
- CVE-2022-49769: gfs2: Check sb_bsize_shift after reading superblock (bsc#1242440).
- CVE-2022-49770: ceph: avoid putting the realm twice when decoding snaps fails (bsc#1242597).
- CVE-2022-49775: tcp: cdg: allow tcp_cdg_release() to be called multiple times (bsc#1242245).
- CVE-2022-49789: scsi: zfcp: Fix double free of FSF request when qdio send fails (bsc#1242366).
- CVE-2023-53039: HID: intel-ish-hid: ipc: Fix potential use-after-free in work function (bsc#1242745).
- CVE-2024-53168: net: make sock_inuse_add() available (bsc#1234887).
- CVE-2024-56558: nfsd: make sure exp active before svc_export_show (bsc#1235100).
- CVE-2024-56705: media: atomisp: add check for rgby_data memory allocation failure (bsc#1235568).
- CVE-2025-21812: ax25: rcu protect dev->ax25_ptr (bsc#1238471).
- CVE-2025-21999: proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode() (bsc#1240802).
- CVE-2025-22028: media: vimc: skip .s_stream() for stopped entities (bsc#1241362).
- CVE-2025-22121: ext4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() (bsc#1241593).
- CVE-2025-37789: net: openvswitch: fix nested key length validation in the set() action (bsc#1242762).
- CVE-2025-37846: arm64: mops: Do not dereference src reg for a set operation (bsc#1242963).
- CVE-2025-40364: io_uring: fix io_req_prep_async with provided buffers (bsc#1241637).

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: 240812

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01982-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2025

Updated: 6/27/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32399

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53168

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-64kb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-preempt-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-preempt, 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: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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36790, CVE-2020-36791, CVE-2021-32399, CVE-2022-3564, CVE-2022-49110, CVE-2022-49139, CVE-2022-49320, CVE-2022-49767, CVE-2022-49769, CVE-2022-49770, CVE-2022-49771, CVE-2022-49772, CVE-2022-49775, CVE-2022-49777, CVE-2022-49787, CVE-2022-49788, CVE-2022-49789, CVE-2022-49790, CVE-2022-49793, CVE-2022-49794, CVE-2022-49799, CVE-2022-49802, CVE-2022-49809, CVE-2022-49818, CVE-2022-49821, CVE-2022-49823, CVE-2022-49824, CVE-2022-49825, CVE-2022-49826, CVE-2022-49827, CVE-2022-49830, CVE-2022-49832, CVE-2022-49835, CVE-2022-49836, CVE-2022-49839, CVE-2022-49841, CVE-2022-49842, CVE-2022-49846, CVE-2022-49861, CVE-2022-49870, CVE-2022-49879, CVE-2022-49880, CVE-2022-49881, CVE-2022-49887, CVE-2022-49889, CVE-2022-49892, CVE-2022-49906, CVE-2022-49910, CVE-2022-49915, CVE-2022-49922, CVE-2022-49927, CVE-2023-1990, CVE-2023-53039, CVE-2023-53052, CVE-2023-53106, CVE-2024-53168, CVE-2024-56558, CVE-2024-56705, CVE-2025-21812, CVE-2025-21999, CVE-2025-22028, CVE-2025-22121, CVE-2025-37789, CVE-2025-37846, CVE-2025-40364

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1

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