The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3044-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 kernel was updated to fix various security issues

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2026-31771: Bluetooth: hci_event: move wake reason storage into validated event handlers     (bsc#1264145).
    - CVE-2026-43038: ipv6: icmp: clear skb2->cb in ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach() (bsc#1264097).
    - CVE-2026-46090: ALSA: aloop: Fix peer runtime UAF during format-change stop (bsc#1267531).
    - CVE-2026-46173: exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task (bsc#1267722).
    - CVE-2026-46229: drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure (bsc#1267567).
    - CVE-2026-46253: pstore/ram: fix buffer overflow in persistent_ram_save_old() (bsc#1267635).
    - CVE-2026-46266: inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP (bsc#1267684).
    - CVE-2026-46319: net/sched: act_ct: Only release RCU read lock after ct_ft (bsc#1268022).
    - CVE-2026-46320: tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp() (bsc#1267993).
    - CVE-2026-46331: net/sched: fix pedit partial COW leading to page cache (bsc#1265421).
    - CVE-2026-52909: ip6_vti: set netns_immutable on the fallback device (bsc#1268660).
    - CVE-2026-52918: Bluetooth: serialize accept_q access (bsc#1269100).
    - CVE-2026-52923: ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range (bsc#1269033).
    - CVE-2026-52924: sctp: purge outqueue on stale COOKIE-ECHO handling (bsc#1269036).
    - CVE-2026-52943: net: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers (bsc#1269022).
    - CVE-2026-52955: libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in crush_decode() (bsc#1269159).
    - CVE-2026-52969: KVM: Reject wrapped offset in kvm_reset_dirty_gfn() (bsc#1269184).
    - CVE-2026-52972: crypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000 (bsc#1269195).
    - CVE-2026-52993: tipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append() (bsc#1269193).
    - CVE-2026-53016: crypto: ccp - copy IV using skcipher ivsize (bsc#1269090).
    - CVE-2026-53041: ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full (bsc#1269398).
    - CVE-2026-53053: iommu/amd: Fix clone_alias() to use the original device's devid (bsc#1269310).
    - CVE-2026-53071: Bluetooth: l2cap: Add missing chan lock in l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp (bsc#1269678).
    - CVE-2026-53072: Bluetooth: fix locking in hci_conn_request_evt() with HCI_PROTO_DEFER (bsc#1269681).
    - CVE-2026-53133: RDMA/umem: Fix truncation for block sizes >= 4G (bsc#1269821).
    - CVE-2026-53253: Bluetooth: bnep: fix incorrect length parsing in bnep_rx_frame() extension handling     (bsc#1269574).
    - CVE-2026-53359: KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected role (bsc#1270059).

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-2026:3044-1)

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