SUSE SLES15 : Recommended update for initial livepatch (SUSE-SU-2026:0474-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 298928

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-2026:0474-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to fix various security issues

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2022-50697: mrp: introduce active flags to prevent UAF when applicant uninit (bsc#1255594).
- CVE-2023-54142: gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy() (bsc#1256095).
- CVE-2023-54243: netfilter: ebtables: fix table blob use-after-free (bsc#1255908).
- CVE-2025-38068: crypto: lzo - Fix compression buffer overrun (bsc#1245210).
- CVE-2025-38129: page_pool: fix inconsistency for page_pool_ring_lock() (bsc#1245723).
- CVE-2025-38159: wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds (bsc#1245751).
- CVE-2025-38375: virtio-net: ensure the received length does not exceed allocated size (bsc#1247177).
- CVE-2025-40257: mptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer() (bsc#1254842).
- CVE-2025-40300: Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation (bsc#1247483).
- CVE-2025-68183: ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr (bsc#1255251).
- 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-2025-68312: usbnet: Prevents free active kevent (bsc#1255171).
- CVE-2025-68771: ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain (bsc#1256582).
- 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-2025-71116: libceph: make decode_pool() more resilient against corrupted osdmaps (bsc#1256744).
- 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).

The following non security issues were fixed:

- 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).
- net: tcp: send zero-window ACK when no memory (bsc#1254767).
- scsi: storvsc: Process unsupported MODE_SENSE_10 (bsc#1257296).
- tcp: correct handling of extreme memory squeeze (bsc#1254767).
- 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 298928

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0474-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/13/2026

Updated: 2/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-38565

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-macros, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_136-default

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49604, CVE-2022-49943, CVE-2022-49980, CVE-2022-50232, CVE-2022-50697, CVE-2023-52433, CVE-2023-52874, CVE-2023-52923, CVE-2023-53178, CVE-2023-53407, CVE-2023-53412, CVE-2023-53417, CVE-2023-53418, CVE-2023-53714, CVE-2023-54142, CVE-2023-54243, CVE-2024-26581, CVE-2024-26661, CVE-2024-26832, CVE-2024-50143, CVE-2024-54031, CVE-2025-21658, CVE-2025-21760, CVE-2025-21764, CVE-2025-21765, CVE-2025-21766, CVE-2025-38068, CVE-2025-38129, CVE-2025-38159, CVE-2025-38375, CVE-2025-38563, CVE-2025-38565, CVE-2025-38684, CVE-2025-40044, CVE-2025-40139, CVE-2025-40257, CVE-2025-40300, CVE-2025-68183, CVE-2025-68284, CVE-2025-68285, CVE-2025-68312, CVE-2025-68771, CVE-2025-68813, CVE-2025-71085, CVE-2025-71089, CVE-2025-71112, CVE-2025-71116, CVE-2025-71120, CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23001

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0474-1

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