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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel RT (Live Patch 3 for SLE 15 SP6) (SUSE-SU-2025:03636-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270828

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-2025:03636-1 advisory.

 This update for the Linux Kernel 6.4.0-150600_10_11 fixes several issues.

 The following security issues were fixed:

 - CVE-2025-38678: netfilter: nf_tables: reject duplicate device on updates (bsc#1249534).
 - CVE-2025-38499: clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns (bsc#1248673).
 - CVE-2025-38396: fs: export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() and fix secretmem LSM bypass (bsc#1247158).
 - CVE-2025-38566: sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts (bsc#1248376).
 - CVE-2024-49974: NFSD: Force all NFSv4.2 COPY requests to be synchronous (bsc#1232384).
 - CVE-2025-21971: net_sched: Prevent creation of classes with TC_H_ROOT (bsc#1245794).
 - CVE-2025-38110: net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds clause 45 read/write access (bsc#1249458).
 - CVE-2025-38644: wifi: mac80211: reject TDLS operations when station is not associated (bsc#1248749).
 - CVE-2025-38206: exfat: fix double free in delayed_free (bsc#1246075).
 - CVE-2025-38471: tls: always refresh the queue when reading sock (bsc#1247452).

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-6_4_0-150600_10_11-rt package.

See Also

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49974

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21971

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38206

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38110

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38396

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38471

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38499

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38644

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38566

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38678

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232384

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245794

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246075

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247158

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247452

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248376

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248673

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248749

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1249458

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1249534

http://www.nessus.org/u?038519b7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270828

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03636-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2025

Updated: 10/21/2025

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: 5.9

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-2024-49974

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-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_10_11-rt, 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: 10/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-49974, CVE-2025-21971, CVE-2025-38110, CVE-2025-38206, CVE-2025-38396, CVE-2025-38471, CVE-2025-38499, CVE-2025-38566, CVE-2025-38644, CVE-2025-38678

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03636-1