SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 : Recommended update for initial livepatch (SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 303788

Synopsis

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

Description

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-2026:1041-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2023-53817: crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpi_cmp_ui() (bsc#1254992).
- CVE-2024-38542: RDMA/mana_ib: boundary check before installing cq callbacks (bsc#1226591).
- CVE-2025-37861: scsi: mpi3mr: Synchronous access b/w reset and tm thread for reply queue (bsc#1243055).
- CVE-2025-39817: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare (bsc#1249998).
- CVE-2025-39964: crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg (bsc#1251966).
- CVE-2025-40099: cifs: parse_dfs_referrals: prevent oob on malformed input (bsc#1252911).
- CVE-2025-40103: smb: client: Fix refcount leak for cifs_sb_tlink (bsc#1252924).
- CVE-2025-40253: s390/ctcm: Fix double-kfree (bsc#1255084).
- CVE-2025-71066: net/sched: ets: Always remove class from active list before deleting in ets_qdisc_change (bsc#1256645).
- CVE-2025-71113: crypto: af_alg - zero initialize memory allocated via sock_kmalloc (bsc#1256716).
- CVE-2025-71231: crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode (bsc#1258424).
- 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-2026-23074: net/sched: Enforce that teql can only be used as root qdisc (bsc#1257749).
- CVE-2026-23089: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix use-after-free in snd_usb_mixer_free() (bsc#1257790).
- CVE-2026-23111: netfilter: nf_tables: fix inverted genmask check in nft_map_catchall_activate() (bsc#1258181).
- CVE-2026-23141: btrfs: send: check for inline extents in range_is_hole_in_parent() (bsc#1258377).
- 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-2026-23214: btrfs: reject new transactions if the fs is fully read-only (bsc#1258464).
- 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 303788

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1041-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2026

Updated: 3/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-23209

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/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-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-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_92-default, 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:ocfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb

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: 3/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-53817, CVE-2024-38542, CVE-2025-37861, CVE-2025-39817, CVE-2025-39964, CVE-2025-40099, CVE-2025-40103, CVE-2025-40253, CVE-2025-71066, CVE-2025-71113, CVE-2025-71231, CVE-2026-23004, CVE-2026-23054, CVE-2026-23060, CVE-2026-23074, CVE-2026-23089, CVE-2026-23111, CVE-2026-23141, CVE-2026-23157, CVE-2026-23191, CVE-2026-23202, CVE-2026-23204, CVE-2026-23207, CVE-2026-23209, CVE-2026-23214, CVE-2026-23268, CVE-2026-23269

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1

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