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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:4530-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 280143

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4530-1 advisory.

 The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.


 The following security bugs were fixed:

 - CVE-2022-50280: pnode: terminate at peers of source (bsc#1249806).
 - CVE-2023-53659: iavf: Fix out-of-bounds when setting channels on remove (bsc#1251247).
 - CVE-2023-53676: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix buffer overflow in lio_target_nacl_info_show() (bsc#1251786).
 - CVE-2023-53717: wifi: ath9k: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds write in ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback() (bsc#1252560).
 - CVE-2025-40040: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise (bsc#1252780).
 - CVE-2025-40121: ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5651: Fix invalid quirk input mapping (bsc#1253367).
 - CVE-2025-40154: ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Fix invalid quirk input mapping (bsc#1253431).
 - CVE-2025-40204: sctp: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (bsc#1253436).


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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228688

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1249806

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251247

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251786

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252560

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252780

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253367

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253431

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253436

http://www.nessus.org/u?a4e5e818

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50280

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53659

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53676

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53717

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40040

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40121

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40154

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40204

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 280143

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4530-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2025

Updated: 12/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2022-50280

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-macros, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-preempt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-preempt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default

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: 12/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-50280, CVE-2023-53659, CVE-2023-53676, CVE-2023-53717, CVE-2025-40040, CVE-2025-40121, CVE-2025-40154, CVE-2025-40204

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4530-1