The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0471-1 advisory.

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

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2025-40257: mptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer() (bsc#1254842).
    - CVE-2025-40259: scsi: sg: Do not sleep in atomic context (bsc#1254845).
    - CVE-2025-68284: libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds writes in handle_auth_session_key()     (bsc#1255377).
    - CVE-2025-68285: libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map() (bsc#1255401).
    - CVE-2025-68775: net/handshake: duplicate handshake cancellations leak socket (bsc#1256665).
    - CVE-2025-68813: ipvs: fix ipv4 null-ptr-deref in route error path (bsc#1256641).
    - CVE-2025-71085: ipv6: BUG() in pskb_expand_head() as part of calipso_skbuff_setattr() (bsc#1256623).
    - CVE-2025-71089: iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set (bsc#1256612).
    - CVE-2025-71112: net: hns3: add VLAN id validation before using (bsc#1256726).
    - CVE-2025-71120: SUNRPC: svcauth_gss: avoid NULL deref on zero length gss_token in gss_read_proxy_verf     (bsc#1256779).
    - CVE-2026-22999: net/sched: sch_qfq: do not free existing class in qfq_change_class() (bsc#1257236).
    - CVE-2026-23001: macvlan: fix possible UAF in macvlan_forward_source() (bsc#1257232).
    - CVE-2026-23010: ipv6: Fix use-after-free in inet6_addr_del() (bsc#1257332).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - bpf/selftests: test_select_reuseport_kern: Remove unused header (bsc#1257603).
    - btrfs: do not strictly require dirty metadata threshold for metadata writepages (stable-fixes).
    - cifs: Fix copy offload to flush destination region (bsc#1252511).
    - cifs: Fix flushing, invalidation and file size with copy_file_range() (bsc#1252511).
    - cifs: add new field to track the last access time of cfid (git-fixes).
    - ext4: use optimized mballoc scanning regardless of inode format (bsc#1254378).
    - ice: use netif_get_num_default_rss_queues() (bsc#1247712).
    - mm, page_alloc, thp: prevent reclaim for __GFP_THISNODE THP allocations (bsc#1253087).
    - net: hv_netvsc: reject RSS hash key programming without RX indirection table (bsc#1257473).
    - net: tcp: allow zero-window ACK update the window (bsc#1254767).
    - sched: Increase sched_tick_remote timeout (bsc#1254510).
    - scsi: storvsc: Process unsupported MODE_SENSE_10 (bsc#1257296).
    - smb: change return type of cached_dir_lease_break() to bool (git-fixes).
    - smb: client: ensure open_cached_dir_by_dentry() only returns valid cfid (git-fixes).
    - smb: client: remove unused fid_lock (git-fixes).
    - smb: client: short-circuit in open_cached_dir_by_dentry() if !dentry (git-fixes).
    - smb: client: split cached_fid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races (bsc#1250748).
    - smb: client: update cfid->last_access_time in open_cached_dir_by_dentry() (git-fixes).
    - smb: improve directory cache reuse for readdir operations (bsc#1252712).
    - x86: make page fault handling disable interrupts properly (git-fixes).

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 : Recommended update for initial livepatch (SUSE-SU-2026:0471-1)

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