The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0984-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2025-21738: ata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer (bsc#1238917).
    - CVE-2025-40242: gfs2: Fix unlikely race in gdlm_put_lock (bsc#1255075).
    - CVE-2025-71066: net/sched: ets: Always remove class from active list before deleting in ets_qdisc_change     (bsc#1256645).
    - CVE-2026-23004: dst: fix races in rt6_uncached_list_del() and rt_del_uncached_list() (bsc#1257231).
    - CVE-2026-23060: crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec     (bsc#1257735).
    - CVE-2026-23191: ALSA: aloop: Fix racy access at PCM trigger (bsc#1258395).
    - CVE-2026-23204: net/sched: cls_u32: use skb_header_pointer_careful() (bsc#1258340).
    - CVE-2026-23209: macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink() (bsc#1258518).
    - CVE-2026-23268: apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management (bsc#1258850).
    - CVE-2026-23269: apparmor: validate DFA start states are in bounds in unpack_pdb (bsc#1259857).


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 : Security update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0984-1)

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Version 1.3 Sep 29, 2026, 8:55 PM Plugin metadata (plugin titles now identify these as Linux kernel security updates) Plugin Feed: 202609292055
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