The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 RT kernel was updated to fix various security issues

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2025-38008: mm/page_alloc: fix race condition in unaccepted memory handling (bsc#1244939).
    - CVE-2025-38539: trace/fgraph: Fix the warning caused by missing unregister notifier (bsc#1248211).
    - CVE-2025-38552: mptcp: plug races between subflow fail and subflow creation (bsc#1248230).
    - CVE-2025-38653: proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al     (bsc#1248630).
    - CVE-2025-38699: scsi: bfa: Double-free fix (bsc#1249224).
    - CVE-2025-38700: scsi: libiscsi: Initialize iscsi_conn->dd_data only if memory is allocated     (bsc#1249182).
    - CVE-2025-38718: sctp: linearize cloned gso packets in sctp_rcv (bsc#1249161).
    - CVE-2025-39673: ppp: fix race conditions in ppp_fill_forward_path (bsc#1249320).
    - CVE-2025-39676: scsi: qla4xxx: Prevent a potential error pointer dereference (bsc#1249302).
    - CVE-2025-39683: tracing: Limit access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed (bsc#1249286).
    - CVE-2025-39697: nfs: remove dead code for the old swap over NFS implementation (bsc#1249319     bsc#1252236).
    - CVE-2025-39702: ipv6: sr: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (bsc#1249317).
    - CVE-2025-39756: fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX (bsc#1249512).
    - CVE-2025-39794: ARM: tegra: Use I/O memcpy to write to IRAM (bsc#1249595).
    - CVE-2025-39812: sctp: initialize more fields in sctp_v6_from_sk() (bsc#1250202).
    - CVE-2025-39813: ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump (bsc#1250032).
    - CVE-2025-39828: atm: atmtcp: Prevent arbitrary write in atmtcp_recv_control() (bsc#1250205).
    - CVE-2025-39851: vxlan: Fix NPD when refreshing an FDB entry with a nexthop object (bsc#1250296).
    - CVE-2025-39866: fs: writeback: fix use-after-free in __mark_inode_dirty() (bsc#1250455).
    - CVE-2025-39876: net: fec: Fix possible NPD in fec_enet_phy_reset_after_clk_enable() (bsc#1250400).
    - CVE-2025-39881: kernfs: Fix UAF in polling when open file is released (bsc#1250379).
    - CVE-2025-39895: sched: Fix sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() if mask offline (bsc#1250721).
    - CVE-2025-39902: mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err() (bsc#1250702).
    - CVE-2025-39911: i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path (bsc#1250704).
    - CVE-2025-39945: cnic: Fix use-after-free bugs in cnic_delete_task (bsc#1251230).
    - CVE-2025-39946: tls: make sure to abort the stream if headers are bogus (bsc#1251114).
    - CVE-2025-39947: net/mlx5e: Harden uplink netdev access against device unbind (bsc#1251232).
    - CVE-2025-39948: ice: fix Rx page leak on multi-buffer frames (bsc#1251233).
    - CVE-2025-39949: qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements (bsc#1251177).
    - CVE-2025-39955: tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect() (bsc#1251804).
    - CVE-2025-39968: i40e: add max boundary check for VF filters (bsc#1252047).
    - CVE-2025-39969: i40e: fix validation of VF state in get resources (bsc#1252044).
    - CVE-2025-39970: i40e: fix input validation logic for action_meta (bsc#1252051).
    - CVE-2025-39971: i40e: fix idx validation in config queues msg (bsc#1252052).
    - CVE-2025-39972: i40e: fix idx validation in i40e_validate_queue_map (bsc#1252039).
    - CVE-2025-39973: i40e: add validation for ring_len param (bsc#1252035).
    - CVE-2025-39978: octeontx2-pf: Fix potential use after free in otx2_tc_add_flow() (bsc#1252069).
    - CVE-2025-40000: wifi: rtw89: fix use-after-free in rtw89_core_tx_kick_off_and_wait() (bsc#1252062).
    - CVE-2025-40005: spi: cadence-quadspi: Implement refcount to handle unbind during busy (bsc#1252349).
    - CVE-2025-40018: ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup (bsc#1252688).
    - CVE-2025-40051: vhost: vringh: Modify the return value check (bsc#1252858).
    - CVE-2025-40056: vhost: vringh: Fix copy_to_iter return value check (bsc#1252826).
    - CVE-2025-40060: coresight: trbe: Return NULL pointer for allocation failures (bsc#1252848).
    - CVE-2025-40078: bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr (bsc#1252789).
    - CVE-2025-40080: nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP (bsc#1252774).
    - CVE-2025-40100: btrfs: do not assert we found block group item when creating free space tree     (bsc#1252918).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - ACPI: battery: Add synchronization between interface updates (git-fixes).
    - KVM: PPC: Fix misleading interrupts comment in kvmppc_prepare_to_enter() (bsc#1215199).
    - KVM: x86: Plumb in the vCPU to kvm_x86_ops.hwapic_isr_update() (git-fixes).
    - KVM: x86: Process 'guest stopped request' once per guest time update (git-fixes).
    - bpf: Allow helper bpf_get_[ns_]current_pid_tgid() for all prog types (bsc#1252364).
    - cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix object lifecycle issue in update_qos_request() (stable-fixes git-fixes).
    - drm/amd/pm: fix smu table id bound check issue in smu_cmn_update_table() (git-fixes).
    - ext4: fix checks for orphan inodes (bsc#1250119).
    - hfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_delete_cat() (git-fixes).
    - kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memmove() in vkdb_printf() (bsc#1252939).
    - module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2) (git-fixes).
    - net: mana: Use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages to improve memory efficiency     (bsc#1248754).
    - netfilter: nft_objref: validate objref and objrefmap expressions (bsc#1250237). No CVE available yet,     please see the bugzilla ticket referenced.
    - perf/x86/intel: Allow to update user space GPRs from PEBS records (git-fixes).
    - perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event() (git-fixes).
    - phy: cadence: cdns-dphy: Update calibration wait time for startup state machine (git-fixes).
    - powerpc/boot: Fix build with gcc 15 (bsc#1215199).
    - powerpc/kvm: Fix ifdef to remove build warning (bsc#1215199).
    - powerpc/powernv/pci: Fix underflow and leak issue (bsc#1215199).
    - powerpc/pseries/msi: Fix potential underflow and leak issue (bsc#1215199).
    - powerpc: export MIN RMA size (bsc#1236743 ltc#211409).
    - powerpc: floppy: Add missing checks after DMA map (bsc#1215199).
    - powerpc: increase MIN RMA size for CAS negotiation (bsc#1236743 ltc#211409 bsc#1252269 ltc#215957).
    - proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files (bsc#1248630)
    - proc: fix type confusion in pde_set_flags() (bsc#1248630)
    - sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call() (bsc#1248517).
    - serial: jsm: fix NPE during jsm_uart_port_init (git fixes, bsc#1246244).
    - skmsg: Return copied bytes in sk_msg_memcopy_from_iter (bsc#1250650).
    - smb: client: fix crypto buffers in non-linear memory (bsc#1250491, bsc#1239206).
    - smb: client: fix potential cfid UAF in smb2_query_info_compound (bsc#1248886).
    - tcp_bpf: Fix copied value in tcp_bpf_sendmsg (bsc#1250650).
    - tracing: Remove unneeded goto out logic (bsc#1249286).
    - x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling (bsc#1248517).

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.

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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1)

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