SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:02848-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 252249

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02848-1 advisory.

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

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2022-50211: md-raid10: fix KASAN warning (bsc#1245140).
- CVE-2023-2176: Fixed an out-of-boundary read in compare_netdev_and_ip in drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c in RDMA (bsc#1210629).
- 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-2024-53057: 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-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-2025-38212: 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-2025-38494: 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: High

ID: 252249

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02848-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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-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: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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-50211, CVE-2023-2176, CVE-2023-52923, CVE-2023-52927, CVE-2024-53057, CVE-2024-53164, CVE-2024-57947, CVE-2025-37797, CVE-2025-37798, CVE-2025-38079, CVE-2025-38120, CVE-2025-38177, CVE-2025-38181, CVE-2025-38200, CVE-2025-38212, CVE-2025-38257, CVE-2025-38494, CVE-2025-38495, CVE-2025-38497

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02848-1

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