SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:02588-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243301

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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-2025:02588-1 advisory.

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

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2022-49138: Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix checking conn for le_conn_complete_evt (bsc#1238160).
- CVE-2023-52923: netfilter: nf_tables: split async and sync catchall in two functions (bsc#1236104).
- CVE-2023-52927: netfilter: allow exp not to be removed in nf_ct_find_expectation (bsc#1239644).
- CVE-2024-26643: Fixed mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout (bsc#1221829).
- CVE-2024-53057: net/sched: stop qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog on TC_H_ROOT (bsc#1233551).
- CVE-2024-53164: net: sched: fix ordering of qlen adjustment (bsc#1234863).
- CVE-2024-57947: netfilter: nf_set_pipapo: fix initial map fill (bsc#1236333).
- CVE-2025-37797: net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling (bsc#1242417).
- CVE-2025-38079: crypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept (bsc#1245217).
- CVE-2025-38181: calipso: Fix null-ptr-deref in calipso_req_{set,del}attr() (bsc#1246000).
- CVE-2025-38200: i40e: fix MMIO write access to an invalid page in i40e_clear_hw (bsc#1246045).
- CVE-2025-38206: exfat: fix double free in delayed_free (bsc#1246073).
- CVE-2025-38212: ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU (bsc#1246029).
- CVE-2025-38213: vgacon: Add check for vc_origin address range in vgacon_scroll() (bsc#1246037).
- CVE-2025-38257: s390/pkey: Prevent overflow in size calculation for memdup_user() (bsc#1246186).
- CVE-2025-38289: scsi: lpfc: Avoid potential ndlp use-after-free in dev_loss_tmo_callbk (bsc#1246287).

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: 243301

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02588-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/2/2025

Updated: 8/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2024-53057

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

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: 8/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49138, CVE-2022-49770, CVE-2023-52923, CVE-2023-52927, CVE-2024-26643, CVE-2024-53057, CVE-2024-53164, CVE-2024-57947, CVE-2025-37797, CVE-2025-38079, CVE-2025-38181, CVE-2025-38200, CVE-2025-38206, CVE-2025-38212, CVE-2025-38213, CVE-2025-38257, CVE-2025-38289

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02588-1

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