SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 27 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5) (SUSE-SU-2025:4031-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 274706

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-2025:4031-1 advisory.

This update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel 5.14.21-150400.24.141 fixes various security issues

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2022-50252: igb: Do not free q_vector unless new one was allocated (bsc#1249847).
- CVE-2024-53164: net: sched: fix ordering of qlen adjustment (bsc#1246019).
- CVE-2025-38617: net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier() (bsc#1249208).
- CVE-2025-38618: vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY (bsc#1249207).
- CVE-2025-38664: ice: Fix a null pointer dereference in ice_copy_and_init_pkg() (bsc#1248631).

The following non security issue was fixed:

- bsc#1249208: fix livepatching target module name (bsc#1252946)

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_141-default and / or kernel- livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_110-default packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 274706

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4031-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/11/2025

Updated: 11/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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-2024-53164

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-5_14_21-150500_55_110-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_141-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: 11/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-50252, CVE-2024-53164, CVE-2025-38617, CVE-2025-38618, CVE-2025-38664

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4031-1

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