SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 30 for SLE 15 SP5) (SUSE-SU-2025:4003-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 274703

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-2025:4003-1 advisory.

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150400_24_176 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2025-38664: ice: Fix a null pointer dereference in ice_copy_and_init_pkg() (bsc#1248631).
- CVE-2022-50252: igb: Do not free q_vector unless new one was allocated (bsc#1249847).

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_14_21-150400_24_176-default and / or kernel- livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_121-default packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 274703

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4003-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/11/2025

Updated: 11/11/2025

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: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-38664

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_121-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-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: 11/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-50252, CVE-2025-38664

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4003-1

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