SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:2310-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 321065

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-2026:2310-1 advisory.

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

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2026-31405: media: dvb-net: fix OOB access in ULE extension header tables (bsc#1261700).
- CVE-2026-31473: media: mc, v4l2: serialize REINIT and REQBUFS with req_queue_mutex (bsc#1262663).
- CVE-2026-31613: smb: client: fix OOB reads parsing symlink error response (bsc#1263769).
- CVE-2026-31614: smb: client: fix off-by-8 bounds check in check_wsl_eas() (bsc#1263774).
- CVE-2026-31629: nfc: llcp: add missing return after LLCP_CLOSED checks (bsc#1263790).
- CVE-2026-31758: usb: usbtmc: Flush anchored URBs in usbtmc_release (bsc#1264093).
- CVE-2026-43037: ip6_tunnel: clear skb2->cb in ip4ip6_err() (bsc#1263995).
- CVE-2026-43206: drm/amdkfd: Fix out-of-bounds write in kfd_event_page_set() (bsc#1264551).
- CVE-2026-43362: smb: client: fix in-place encryption corruption in SMB2_write() (bsc#1264989).
- CVE-2026-43499: rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter() (bsc#1266001).
- CVE-2026-43501: ipv6: rpl: reserve mac_len headroom when recompressed SRH grows (bsc#1266009).
- CVE-2026-43503: net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker through frag-transfer helpers (bsc#1265960).
- CVE-2026-45852: RDMA/rxe: Fix double free in rxe_srq_from_init (bsc#1266711).
- CVE-2026-45910: RDMA/rxe: Fix race condition in QP timer handlers (bsc#1266889).
- CVE-2026-45970: bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down (bsc#1267205).
- CVE-2026-46004: ALSA: caiaq: Handle probe errors properly (bsc#1267222).
- CVE-2026-46021: thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues (bsc#1267220).
- CVE-2026-46043: RDMA/rxe: Validate pad and ICRC before payload_size() in rxe_rcv (bsc#1266901).
- CVE-2026-46113: KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected GFN (bsc#1266969).
- CVE-2026-46114: RDMA/rxe: Reject non-8-byte ATOMIC_WRITE payloads (bsc#1266972).
- CVE-2026-46243: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions (bsc#1266238).

The following non security issues were fixed:

- arm64: tlb: Allow XZR argument to TLBI ops (git-fixes).
- arm64: tlb: Optimize ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI (git-fixes).
- drm/hyperv: validate resolution_count and fix WIN8 fallback (git-fixes).
- drm/hyperv: validate VMBus packet size in receive callback (git-fixes).
- net: gro: don't merge zcopy skbs (git-fixes).
- net: mana: Add NULL guards in teardown path to prevent panic on attach failure (git-fixes).
- net: mana: Expose hardware diagnostic info via debugfs (bsc#1266414).
- net: mana: Fix TOCTOU double-fetch of hwc_msg_id from DMA buffer (bsc#1265928).
- net: mana: hardening: Reject zero max_num_queues from GDMA_QUERY_MAX_RESOURCES (git-fixes).
- net: mana: Skip redundant detach on already-detached port (git-fixes).
- net: mana: Use kvmalloc for large RX queue and buffer allocations (bsc#1266765).
- net: mana: Use per-queue allocation for tx_qp to reduce allocation size (bsc#1266765).
- net: mana: validate rx_req_idx to prevent out-of-bounds array access (bsc#1266402).
- RDMA/mana_ib: Report max_msg_sz in mana_ib_query_port (git-fixes).
- s390/barrier: Make array_index_mask_nospec() __always_inline (bsc#1263068).
- s390/entry: Scrub r12 register on kernel entry (bsc#1263068).
- s390/syscalls: Add spectre boundary for syscall dispatch table (bsc#1263068).
- smb: client: correctly handle ErrorContextData as a flexible array (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: 321065

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2310-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/14/2026

Updated: 6/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-31614

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_115-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-macros, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 6/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-31405, CVE-2026-31473, CVE-2026-31613, CVE-2026-31614, CVE-2026-31629, CVE-2026-31758, CVE-2026-43037, CVE-2026-43206, CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43362, CVE-2026-43499, CVE-2026-43501, CVE-2026-43503, CVE-2026-45852, CVE-2026-45910, CVE-2026-45970, CVE-2026-46004, CVE-2026-46021, CVE-2026-46043, CVE-2026-46113, CVE-2026-46114, CVE-2026-46243

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2310-1

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