The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - mlx5: fix skb leak while fifo resync and push During ptp resync operation SKBs were poped from the fifo     but were never freed neither by napi_consume nor by dev_kfree_skb_any. Add call to napi_consume_skb to     properly free SKBs. Another leak was happening because mlx5e_skb_fifo_has_room() had an error in the     check. Comparing free running counters works well unless C promotes the types to something wider than the     counter. In this case counters are u16 but the result of the substraction is promouted to int and it     causes wrong result (negative value) of the check when producer have already overlapped but consumer     haven't yet. Explicit cast to u16 fixes the issue. (CVE-2023-54238)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The AlmaLinux 9.2 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1783362244 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: extcon: Modify extcon device to be     created after driver data is set Currently, someone can invoke the sysfs such as state_show()     intermittently before dev_set_drvdata() is done. And it can be a cause of kernel Oops because of edev is     Null at that time. So modified the driver registration to after setting drviver data. - Oops's backtrace.
    Backtrace: [<c067865c>] (state_show) from [<c05222e8>] (dev_attr_show) [<c05222c0>] (dev_attr_show) from     [<c02c66e0>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show) [<c02c6648>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show) from [<c02c496c>] (kernfs_seq_show)     [<c02c4938>] (kernfs_seq_show) from [<c025e2a0>] (seq_read) [<c025e11c>] (seq_read) from [<c02c50a0>]     (kernfs_fop_read) [<c02c5064>] (kernfs_fop_read) from [<c0231cac>] (__vfs_read) [<c0231c5c>] (__vfs_read)     from [<c0231ee0>] (vfs_read) [<c0231e34>] (vfs_read) from [<c0232464>] (ksys_read) [<c02323f0>]     (ksys_read) from [<c02324fc>] (sys_read) [<c02324e4>] (sys_read) from [<c00091d0>] (__sys_trace_return)     (CVE-2022-49308)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tick/nohz: unexport __init-annotated     tick_nohz_full_setup() EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text section is     freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot use symbols annotated __init. The access to a     freed symbol may end up with kernel panic. modpost used to detect it, but it had been broken for a decade.
    Commit 28438794aba4 (modpost: fix section mismatch check for exported init/exit sections) fixed it so     modpost started to warn it again, then this showed up: MODPOST vmlinux.symvers WARNING: modpost:
    vmlinux.o(___ksymtab_gpl+tick_nohz_full_setup+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable
    __ksymtab_tick_nohz_full_setup to the function .init.text:tick_nohz_full_setup() The symbol     tick_nohz_full_setup is exported and annotated __init Fix this by removing the __init annotation of     tick_nohz_full_setup or drop the export. Drop the export because tick_nohz_full_setup() is only called     from the built-in code in kernel/sched/isolation.c. (CVE-2022-49675)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ata: libata-core: fix NULL pointer     deref in ata_host_alloc_pinfo() In an unlikely (and probably wrong?) case that the 'ppi' parameter of     ata_host_alloc_pinfo() points to an array starting with a NULL pointer, there's going to be a kernel oops     as the 'pi' local variable won't get reassigned from the initial value of NULL. Initialize 'pi' instead to     '&ata_dummy_port_info' to fix the possible kernel oops for good... Found by Linux Verification Center     (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool. (CVE-2022-49731)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bridge: switchdev: Fix memory leaks     when changing VLAN protocol The bridge driver can offload VLANs to the underlying hardware either via     switchdev or the 8021q driver. When the former is used, the VLAN is marked in the bridge driver with the     'BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV' private flag. To avoid the memory leaks mentioned in the cited commit, the     bridge driver will try to delete a VLAN via the 8021q driver if the VLAN is not marked with the previously     mentioned flag. When the VLAN protocol of the bridge changes, switchdev drivers are notified via the     'SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_BRIDGE_VLAN_PROTOCOL' attribute, but the 8021q driver is also called to add the     existing VLANs with the new protocol and delete them with the old protocol. In case the VLANs were     offloaded via switchdev, the above behavior is both redundant and buggy. Redundant because the VLANs are     already programmed in hardware and drivers that support VLAN protocol change (currently only mlx5) change     the protocol upon the switchdev attribute notification. Buggy because the 8021q driver is called despite     these VLANs being marked with 'BR_VLFLAG_ADDED_BY_SWITCHDEV'. This leads to memory leaks [1] when the     VLANs are deleted. Fix by not calling the 8021q driver for VLANs that were already programmed via     switchdev. [1] unreferenced object 0xffff8881f6771200 (size 256): comm ip, pid 446855, jiffies     4298238841 (age 55.240s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 7f 0e 83 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00     ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace:
    [<00000000012819ac>] vlan_vid_add+0x437/0x750 [<00000000f2281fad>] __br_vlan_set_proto+0x289/0x920     [<000000000632b56f>] br_changelink+0x3d6/0x13f0 [<0000000089d25f04>] __rtnl_newlink+0x8ae/0x14c0     [<00000000f6276baf>] rtnl_newlink+0x5f/0x90 [<00000000746dc902>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x336/0xa00     [<000000001c2241c0>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x11d/0x340 [<0000000010588814>] netlink_unicast+0x438/0x710     [<00000000e1a4cd5c>] netlink_sendmsg+0x788/0xc40 [<00000000e8992d4e>] sock_sendmsg+0xb0/0xe0     [<00000000621b8f91>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x4ff/0x6d0 [<000000000ea26996>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x12e/0x1b0     [<00000000684f7e25>] __sys_sendmsg+0xab/0x130 [<000000004538b104>] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90     [<0000000091ed9678>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 (CVE-2022-49812)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: capabilities: fix potential memleak on     error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc() In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to     complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed     to call handler->get(...), there will be a memleak in below logic: |-- ret =     (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...) | /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */ |-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value,     error + 1, flags) | /* ^^^ alloc memory */ |-- error = handler->get(handler, ...) | /* error! */ |--
    *xattr_value = value | /* xattr_value is &tmpbuf (memory leak!) */ So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after     vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it. [PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks] (CVE-2022-49890)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to fix various security issues

    The following security issues were fixed:

    - CVE-2022-50630: mm: hugetlb: fix UAF in hugetlb_handle_userfault (bsc#1254785).
    - CVE-2022-50700: wifi: ath10k: Delay the unmapping of the buffer (bsc#1255576).
    - CVE-2023-53254: cacheinfo: Fix shared_cpu_map to handle shared caches at different levels (bsc#1249871).
    - CVE-2023-53781: smc: Fix use-after-free in tcp_write_timer_handler() (bsc#1254751).
    - CVE-2024-56590: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix not checking skb length on hci_acldata_packet (bsc#1235038).
    - CVE-2025-39977: futex: Prevent use-after-free during requeue-PI (bsc#1252046).
    - CVE-2025-40019: crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption (bsc#1252678).
    - CVE-2025-40139: smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in in smc_clc_prfx_set() (bsc#1253409).
    - CVE-2025-40215: kABI: xfrm: delete x->tunnel as we delete x (bsc#1254959).
    - CVE-2025-40220: fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers (bsc#1254520).
    - CVE-2025-40233: ocfs2: clear extent cache after moving/defragmenting extents (bsc#1254813).
    - CVE-2025-40258: mptcp: fix race condition in mptcp_schedule_work() (bsc#1254843).
    - CVE-2025-40277: drm/vmwgfx: Validate command header size against (bsc#1254894).
    - CVE-2025-40280: tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_mon_reinit_self() (bsc#1254847).
    - CVE-2025-40331: sctp: Prevent TOCTOU out-of-bounds write (bsc#1254615).
    - CVE-2025-68732: gpu: host1x: Fix race in syncpt alloc/free (bsc#1255688).

    The following non security issues were fixed:

    - ACPI/IORT: Fix memory leak in iort_rmr_alloc_sids() (git-fixes).
    - ACPI: PRM: Remove unnecessary strict handler address checks (git-fixes).
    - ACPI: property: Do not pass NULL handles to acpi_attach_data() (git-fixes).
    - ACPI: property: Fix buffer properties extraction for subnodes (git-fixes).
    - KVM: SVM: Fix TSC_AUX virtualization setup (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/cm: Rate limit destroy CM ID timeout error message (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/counter: Check CAP_NET_RAW check in user namespace for RDMA counters (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/hns: Fix the modification of max_send_sge (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/mlx5: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for anchor create (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/mlx5: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for devx create (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/mlx5: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for flow create (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/mlx5: Fix compilation warning when USER_ACCESS isn't set (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/nldev: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for QP modify (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/uverbs: Add empty rdma_uattrs_has_raw_cap() declaration (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/uverbs: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for QP create (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/uverbs: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for RAW QP create (git-fixes).
    - RDMA/uverbs: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for flow create (git-fixes).
    - arch/idle: Change arch_cpu_idle() behavior: always exit with IRQs disabled (git-fixes).
    - cpuidle/poll: Ensure IRQs stay disabled after cpuidle_state::enter() calls (git-fixes).
    - cpuidle: Move IRQ state validation (git-fixes).
    - cpuidle: haltpoll: Do not enable interrupts when entering idle (git-fixes).
    - dm: free table mempools if not used in __bind (git-fixes).
    - padata: Honor the caller's alignment in case of chunk_size 0 (bsc#1237563).
    - platform/x86/intel-uncore-freq: Fail module load when plat_info is NULL (git-fixes).
    - x86/bugs: Fix RSB clearing in indirect_branch_prediction_barrier() (git-fixes).
    - x86/bugs: Use SBPB in write_ibpb() if applicable (git-fixes).
    - x86/paravirt: Move halt paravirt calls under CONFIG_PARAVIRT (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Drop flags from __tdx_hypercall() (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Dynamically disable SEPT violations from causing #VEs (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Emit warning if IRQs are enabled during HLT #VE handling (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Extend TDX_MODULE_CALL to support more TDCALL/SEAMCALL leafs (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Fix __noreturn build warning around __tdx_hypercall_failed() (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Fix arch_safe_halt() execution for TDX VMs (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Introduce wrappers to read and write TD metadata (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Make TDX_HYPERCALL asm similar to TDX_MODULE_CALL (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Make macros of TDCALLs consistent with the spec (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Pass TDCALL/SEAMCALL input/output registers via a structure (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Reimplement __tdx_hypercall() using TDX_MODULE_CALL asm (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Remove 'struct tdx_hypercall_args' (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Remove TDX_HCALL_ISSUE_STI (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Rename __tdx_module_call() to __tdcall() (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Rename tdx_parse_tdinfo() to tdx_setup() (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Retry partially-completed page conversion hypercalls (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Skip saving output regs when SEAMCALL fails with VMFailInvalid (git-fixes).
    - x86/tdx: Zero out the missing RSI in TDX_HYPERCALL macro (git-fixes).
    - x86/virt/tdx: Make TDX_MODULE_CALL handle SEAMCALL #UD and #GP (git-fixes).
    - x86/virt/tdx: Wire up basic SEAMCALL functions (git-fixes).
    - xfs: fix sparse inode limits on runt AG (bsc#1254392).

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
281472	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-54238	Nessus	Misc.	12/31/2025	7/25/2026	medium
360687	AlmaLinux 9.2 [TuxCare] Security Update: bpftool / kernel / kernel-64k / kernel-64k-core / kernel-64k-debug / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1783362244)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	10/1/2026	10/19/2026	high
297191	SUSE SLES15 : Security update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/30/2026	9/29/2026	high

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