SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:02849-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 252245

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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-2025:02849-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 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-2023-53117: fs: prevent out-of-bounds array speculation when closing a file descriptor (bsc#1242780).
- CVE-2024-26643: Fixed mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout (bsc#1221829).
- CVE-2024-42265: protect the fetch of ->fd[fd] in do_dup2() from mispredictions (bsc#1229334).
- CVE-2024-53164: net: sched: fix ordering of qlen adjustment (bsc#1234863).
- CVE-2025-21881: uprobes: Reject the shared zeropage in uprobe_write_opcode() (bsc#1240185).
- CVE-2025-21971: net_sched: Prevent creation of classes with TC_H_ROOT (bsc#1240799).
- 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-2025-38350: net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty (bsc#1246781).
- CVE-2025-38468: net/sched: Return NULL when htb_lookup_leaf encounters an empty rbtree (bsc#1247437).
- CVE-2025-38477: net/sched: sch_qfq: Avoid triggering might_sleep in atomic context in qfq_delete_class (bsc#1247314).
- CVE-2025-38494: HID: core: do not bypass hid_hw_raw_request (bsc#1247349).
- CVE-2025-38495: HID: core: ensure the allocated report buffer can contain the reserved report ID (bsc#1247348).
- CVE-2025-38497: usb: gadget: configfs: Fix OOB read on empty string write (bsc#1247347).

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: Medium

ID: 252245

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02849-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 8/20/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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-2024-26643

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

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: 8/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49138, CVE-2022-49770, CVE-2023-52923, CVE-2023-52927, CVE-2023-53117, CVE-2024-26643, CVE-2024-42265, CVE-2024-53164, CVE-2024-57947, CVE-2025-21881, CVE-2025-21971, CVE-2025-37798, CVE-2025-38079, CVE-2025-38088, CVE-2025-38120, CVE-2025-38177, CVE-2025-38181, CVE-2025-38200, CVE-2025-38206, CVE-2025-38212, CVE-2025-38213, CVE-2025-38257, CVE-2025-38350, CVE-2025-38468, CVE-2025-38477, CVE-2025-38494, CVE-2025-38495, CVE-2025-38497

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02849-1

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