SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 20 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7) (SUSE-SU-2026:4889-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 371660

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:4889-1 advisory.

This update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Kernel 6.4.0-150700.53.78 fixes various security issues:

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2026-63887: scsi: target: iscsi: Bound iscsi_encode_text_output() appends to rsp_buf (bsc#1272386).
- CVE-2026-68158: libceph: Fix multiplication overflow in decode_new_up_state_weight() (bsc#1276303).

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 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_78-default package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 371660

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4889-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/24/2026

Updated: 10/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.27

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-68158

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_78-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: 10/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-63887, CVE-2026-68158

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4889-1

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