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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 36 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2025:01927-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240838

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01927-1 advisory.

 This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150400_24_150 fixes several issues.

 The following security issues were fixed:

 - CVE-2022-49080: mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace (bsc#1238324).
 - CVE-2024-57996: net_sched: sch_sfq: do not allow 1 packet limit (bsc#1239077).

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 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_150-default package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1238324

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239077

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040265.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49080

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-57996

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240838

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01927-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/27/2025

Updated: 6/27/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-57996

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_150-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: 6/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49080, CVE-2024-57996

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01927-1