An update of the linux package has been released.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1 advisory.

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


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2023-52888: media: mediatek: vcodec: Only free buffer VA that is not NULL (bsc#1228557).
    - CVE-2024-49568: net/smc: check v2_ext_offset/eid_cnt/ism_gid_cnt when receiving proposal msg     (bsc#1235728).
    - CVE-2024-57982: xfrm: state: fix out-of-bounds read during lookup (bsc#1237913).
    - CVE-2024-58053: rxrpc: Fix handling of received connection abort (bsc#1238982).
    - CVE-2025-21720: xfrm: delete intermediate secpath entry in packet offload mode (bsc#1238859).
    - CVE-2025-21868: kABI workaround for adding an header (bsc#1240180).
    - CVE-2025-21898: ftrace: Avoid potential division by zero in function_stat_show() (bsc#1240610).
    - CVE-2025-21899: tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers list (bsc#1240577).
    - CVE-2025-21920: vlan: enforce underlying device type (bsc#1240686).
    - CVE-2025-21938: mptcp: fix 'scheduling while atomic' in mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr (bsc#1240723).
    - CVE-2025-21959: netfilter: nf_conncount: Fully initialize struct nf_conncount_tuple in insert_tree()     (bsc#1240814).
    - CVE-2025-21997: xsk: fix an integer overflow in xp_create_and_assign_umem() (bsc#1240823).
    - CVE-2025-22035: tracing: Fix use-after-free in print_graph_function_flags during tracer switching     (bsc#1241544).
    - CVE-2025-22111: kABI fix for net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF (bsc#1241572).
    - CVE-2025-22113: ext4: define ext4_journal_destroy wrapper (bsc#1241617).
    - CVE-2025-23155: net: stmmac: Fix accessing freed irq affinity_hint (bsc#1242573).
    - CVE-2025-37738: ext4: ignore xattrs past end (bsc#1242846).
    - CVE-2025-37743: wifi: ath12k: Avoid memory leak while enabling statistics (bsc#1242163).
    - CVE-2025-37752: net_sched: sch_sfq: move the limit validation (bsc#1242504).
    - CVE-2025-37756: net: tls: explicitly disallow disconnect (bsc#1242515).
    - CVE-2025-37757: tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_link_xmit (bsc#1242521).
    - CVE-2025-37786: net: dsa: free routing table on probe failure (bsc#1242725).
    - CVE-2025-37800: driver core: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dev_uevent() (bsc#1242849).
    - CVE-2025-37801: spi: spi-imx: Add check for spi_imx_setupxfer() (bsc#1242850).
    - CVE-2025-37811: usb: chipidea: ci_hdrc_imx: fix usbmisc handling (bsc#1242907).
    - CVE-2025-37844: cifs: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dbg call (bsc#1242946).
    - CVE-2025-37859: page_pool: avoid infinite loop to schedule delayed worker (bsc#1243051).
    - CVE-2025-37862: HID: pidff: Fix null pointer dereference in pidff_find_fields (bsc#1242982).
    - CVE-2025-37865: net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix -ENOENT when deleting VLANs and MST is unsupported     (bsc#1242954).
    - CVE-2025-37874: net: ngbe: fix memory leak in ngbe_probe() error path (bsc#1242940).
    - CVE-2025-37884: bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex (bsc#1243060).
    - CVE-2025-37909: net: lan743x: Fix memleak issue when GSO enabled (bsc#1243467).
    - CVE-2025-37917: net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll (bsc#1243475).
    - CVE-2025-37921: vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry (bsc#1243480).
    - CVE-2025-37923: tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer() (bsc#1243551).
    - CVE-2025-37927: iommu/amd: Fix potential buffer overflow in parse_ivrs_acpihid (bsc#1243620).
    - CVE-2025-37933: octeon_ep: Fix host hang issue during device reboot (bsc#1243628).
    - CVE-2025-37936: perf/x86/intel: KVM: Mask PEBS_ENABLE loaded for guest with vCPU's value (bsc#1243537).
    - CVE-2025-37938: tracing: Verify event formats that have '%*p..' (bsc#1243544).
    - CVE-2025-37945: net: phy: allow MDIO bus PM ops to start/stop state machine for phylink-controlled PHY     (bsc#1243538).
    - CVE-2025-37961: ipvs: fix uninit-value for saddr in do_output_route4 (bsc#1243523).
    - CVE-2025-37967: usb: typec: ucsi: displayport: Fix deadlock (bsc#1243572).
    - CVE-2025-37968: iio: light: opt3001: fix deadlock due to concurrent flag access (bsc#1243571).
    - CVE-2025-37987: pds_core: Prevent possible adminq overflow/stuck condition (bsc#1243542).
    - CVE-2025-37992: net_sched: Flush gso_skb list too during ->change() (bsc#1243698).
    - CVE-2025-37995: module: ensure that kobject_put() is safe for module type kobjects (bsc#1243827).
    - CVE-2025-37997: netfilter: ipset: fix region locking in hash types (bsc#1243832).
    - CVE-2025-37998: openvswitch: Fix unsafe attribute parsing in output_userspace() (bsc#1243836).
    - CVE-2025-38000: sch_hfsc: Fix qlen accounting bug when using peek in hfsc_enqueue() (bsc#1244277).
    - CVE-2025-38001: net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice (bsc#1244234).
    - CVE-2025-38011: drm/amdgpu: csa unmap use uninterruptible lock (bsc#1244729).
    - CVE-2025-38018: net/tls: fix kernel panic when alloc_page failed (bsc#1244999).
    - CVE-2025-38053: idpf: fix null-ptr-deref in idpf_features_check (bsc#1244746).
    - CVE-2025-38057: espintcp: fix skb leaks (bsc#1244862).
    - CVE-2025-38060: bpf: abort verification if env->cur_state->loop_entry != NULL (bsc#1245155).
    - CVE-2025-38072: libnvdimm/labels: Fix divide error in nd_label_data_init() (bsc#1244743).


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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
240519	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2025-4.0-0814	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	6/25/2025	3/6/2026	high
242954	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:02538-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/29/2025	7/29/2025	high

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