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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 77 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5) (SUSE-SU-2026:1045-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 303961

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1045-1 advisory.

 This update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Kernel 4.12.14-122.293 fixes various security issues

 The following security issues were fixed:

 - CVE-2025-21738: ata: libata-sff: ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer (bsc#1257118).
 - CVE-2025-68285: libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map() (bsc#1255402).

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 kgraft-patch-4_12_14-122_293-default package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255402

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257118

http://www.nessus.org/u?5792ca59

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21738

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68285

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 303961

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1045-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2026

Updated: 3/27/2026

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-2025-21738

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_12_14-122_293-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: 3/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21738, CVE-2025-68285

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1045-1