SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 49 for SLE 15 SP3) (SUSE-SU-2025:03124-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 264434

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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-2025:03124-1 advisory.

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-150300_59_179 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2025-21999: proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode() (bsc#1242579).
- CVE-2022-49053: scsi: target: tcmu: Fix possible page UAF (bsc#1237930).
- CVE-2025-38001: net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice (bsc#1244235).
- CVE-2024-49867: btrfs: wait for fixup workers before stopping cleaner kthread during umount (bsc#1232271).
- CVE-2025-38000: sch_hfsc: Fix qlen accounting bug when using peek in hfsc_enqueue() (bsc#1245775).
- CVE-2025-37890: net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class with netem as child qdisc (bsc#1245791).
- CVE-2024-47674: mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case (bsc#1231676).
- CVE-2024-47706: block, bfq: fix possible UAF for bfqq->bic with merge chain (bsc#1231943).
- CVE-2025-38212: ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU (bsc#1246030).

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_3_18-150300_59_179-default package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 264434

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03124-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/10/2025

Updated: 9/10/2025

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: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-49867

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_179-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: 9/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49053, CVE-2024-47674, CVE-2024-47706, CVE-2024-49867, CVE-2025-21999, CVE-2025-37890, CVE-2025-38000, CVE-2025-38001, CVE-2025-38212

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03124-1

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