A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.15.62. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The version of kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2022-40476 advisory.

  - A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.15.62. A     local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2022-40476)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4072-1 advisory.

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's pipes functionality in how a user performs     manipulations with the pipe post_one_notification() after free_pipe_info() that is already called. This     flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-1882)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM when attempting to set a SynIC IRQ. This issue makes it     possible for a misbehaving VMM to write to SYNIC/STIMER MSRs, causing a NULL pointer dereference. This     flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel     oops condition that results in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2153)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet     Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.
    (CVE-2022-2964)

  - A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function     security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to function nilfs_mdt_destroy. A local user could use     this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2978)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service flaw may occur if there is a consecutive request     of the NVME_IOCTL_RESET and the NVME_IOCTL_SUBSYS_RESET through the device file of the driver, resulting     in a PCIe link disconnect. (CVE-2022-3169)

  - drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel before 5.17.6 is vulnerable to a denial of service, because of     a concurrency use-after-free flaw after deallocating raw_cmd in the raw_cmd_ioctl function.
    (CVE-2022-33981)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's SGI GRU driver in the way the first     gru_file_unlocked_ioctl function is called by the user, where a fail pass occurs in the     gru_check_chiplet_assignment function. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate     their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-3424)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel. This affects the function     fib_nh_match of the file net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c of the component IPv4 Handler. The manipulation leads to     out-of-bounds read. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to     fix this issue. The identifier VDB-210357 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3435)

  - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function kcm_tx_work of the file net/kcm/kcmsock.c of the component kcm. The manipulation leads to     race condition. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211018 is the identifier     assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3521)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function ipv6_renew_options of the component IPv6 Handler. The manipulation leads to     memory leak. The attack can be launched remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    The identifier VDB-211021 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3524)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Linux Kernel. This vulnerability affects the     function macvlan_handle_frame of the file drivers/net/macvlan.c of the component skb. The manipulation     leads to memory leak. The attack can be initiated remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211024. (CVE-2022-3526)

  - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability     is the function area_cache_get of the file drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cppcore.c of the     component IPsec. The manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. The identifier VDB-211045 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3545)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected by this issue     is the function del_timer of the file drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The     manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier     of this vulnerability is VDB-211088. (CVE-2022-3565)

  - An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Kid-friendly Wired Controller driver.
    This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. It is in     bigben_probe of drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c. The reason is incorrect assumption - bigben devices all have     inputs. However, malicious devices can break this assumption, leaking to out-of-bound write.
    (CVE-2022-3577)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking code. A use-after-free was found in the way the sch_sfb     enqueue function used the socket buffer (SKB) cb field after the same SKB had been enqueued (and freed)     into a child qdisc. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to crash the system, causing a denial of     service. (CVE-2022-3586)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function intr_callback of the file drivers/net/usb/r8152.c of the component BPF. The     manipulation leads to logging of excessive data. The attack can be launched remotely. It is recommended to     apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211363.
    (CVE-2022-3594)

  - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function l2cap_recv_acldata of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211918 is the     identifier assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3619)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function     nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level of the file fs/nilfs2/inode.c of the component nilfs2. The manipulation leads     to null pointer dereference. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211920. (CVE-2022-3621)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function     devlink_param_set/devlink_param_get of the file net/core/devlink.c of the component IPsec. The     manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier     VDB-211929 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3625)

  - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel Broadcom Full MAC Wi-Fi driver. This issue occurs     when a user connects to a malicious USB device. This can allow a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2022-3628)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function vsock_connect of the file net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The manipulation leads to memory leak. It     is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211930 is the identifier assigned to this     vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3629)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected is the function     j1939_session_destroy of the file net/can/j1939/transport.c. The manipulation leads to memory leak. It is     recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211932.
    (CVE-2022-3633)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel. Affected is the function     l2cap_conn_del of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The manipulation leads     to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this     vulnerability is VDB-211944. (CVE-2022-3640)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel. This issue affects     the function nilfs_attach_log_writer of the file fs/nilfs2/segment.c of the component BPF. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. The attack may be initiated remotely. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211961 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3646)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function     nilfs_new_inode of the file fs/nilfs2/inode.c of the component BPF. The manipulation leads to use after     free. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211992. (CVE-2022-3649)

  - A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.15.62. A     local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2022-40476)

  - drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information     from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.
    (CVE-2022-40768)

  - mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.19.7 has a use-after-free related to leaf anon_vma double reuse.
    (CVE-2022-42703)

  - drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c in usbmon in the Linux kernel before 5.19.15 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows a user-     space client to corrupt the monitor's internal memory. (CVE-2022-43750)

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-2022:3998-1 advisory.

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's pipes functionality in how a user performs     manipulations with the pipe post_one_notification() after free_pipe_info() that is already called. This     flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-1882)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM when attempting to set a SynIC IRQ. This issue makes it     possible for a misbehaving VMM to write to SYNIC/STIMER MSRs, causing a NULL pointer dereference. This     flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel     oops condition that results in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2153)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet     Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.
    (CVE-2022-2964)

  - A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function     security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to function nilfs_mdt_destroy. A local user could use     this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2978)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service flaw may occur if there is a consecutive request     of the NVME_IOCTL_RESET and the NVME_IOCTL_SUBSYS_RESET through the device file of the driver, resulting     in a PCIe link disconnect. (CVE-2022-3169)

  - drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel before 5.17.6 is vulnerable to a denial of service, because of     a concurrency use-after-free flaw after deallocating raw_cmd in the raw_cmd_ioctl function.
    (CVE-2022-33981)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's SGI GRU driver in the way the first     gru_file_unlocked_ioctl function is called by the user, where a fail pass occurs in the     gru_check_chiplet_assignment function. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate     their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-3424)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel. This affects the function     fib_nh_match of the file net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c of the component IPv4 Handler. The manipulation leads to     out-of-bounds read. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to     fix this issue. The identifier VDB-210357 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3435)

  - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function kcm_tx_work of the file net/kcm/kcmsock.c of the component kcm. The manipulation leads to     race condition. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211018 is the identifier     assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3521)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function ipv6_renew_options of the component IPv6 Handler. The manipulation leads to     memory leak. The attack can be launched remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    The identifier VDB-211021 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3524)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Linux Kernel. This vulnerability affects the     function macvlan_handle_frame of the file drivers/net/macvlan.c of the component skb. The manipulation     leads to memory leak. The attack can be initiated remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211024. (CVE-2022-3526)

  - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability     is the function area_cache_get of the file drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cppcore.c of the     component IPsec. The manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. The identifier VDB-211045 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3545)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected by this issue     is the function del_timer of the file drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The     manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier     of this vulnerability is VDB-211088. (CVE-2022-3565)

  - An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Kid-friendly Wired Controller driver.
    This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. It is in     bigben_probe of drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c. The reason is incorrect assumption - bigben devices all have     inputs. However, malicious devices can break this assumption, leaking to out-of-bound write.
    (CVE-2022-3577)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking code. A use-after-free was found in the way the sch_sfb     enqueue function used the socket buffer (SKB) cb field after the same SKB had been enqueued (and freed)     into a child qdisc. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to crash the system, causing a denial of     service. (CVE-2022-3586)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function intr_callback of the file drivers/net/usb/r8152.c of the component BPF. The     manipulation leads to logging of excessive data. The attack can be launched remotely. It is recommended to     apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211363.
    (CVE-2022-3594)

  - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function l2cap_recv_acldata of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211918 is the     identifier assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3619)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function     nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level of the file fs/nilfs2/inode.c of the component nilfs2. The manipulation leads     to null pointer dereference. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211920. (CVE-2022-3621)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function     devlink_param_set/devlink_param_get of the file net/core/devlink.c of the component IPsec. The     manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier     VDB-211929 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3625)

  - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel Broadcom Full MAC Wi-Fi driver. This issue occurs     when a user connects to a malicious USB device. This can allow a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges. (CVE-2022-3628)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function vsock_connect of the file net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The manipulation leads to memory leak. It     is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211930 is the identifier assigned to this     vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3629)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected is the function     j1939_session_destroy of the file net/can/j1939/transport.c. The manipulation leads to memory leak. It is     recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211932.
    (CVE-2022-3633)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel. Affected is the function     l2cap_conn_del of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The manipulation leads     to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this     vulnerability is VDB-211944. (CVE-2022-3640)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel. This issue affects     the function nilfs_attach_log_writer of the file fs/nilfs2/segment.c of the component BPF. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. The attack may be initiated remotely. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211961 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3646)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function     nilfs_new_inode of the file fs/nilfs2/inode.c of the component BPF. The manipulation leads to use after     free. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211992. (CVE-2022-3649)

  - A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.15.62. A     local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2022-40476)

  - drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information     from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.
    (CVE-2022-40768)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.19.16. Attackers able to inject WLAN frames could     cause a buffer overflow in the ieee80211_bss_info_update function in net/mac80211/scan.c. (CVE-2022-41674)

  - mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.19.7 has a use-after-free related to leaf anon_vma double reuse.
    (CVE-2022-42703)

  - A use-after-free in the mac80211 stack when parsing a multi-BSSID element in the Linux kernel 5.2 through     5.19.x before 5.19.16 could be used by attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to crash the kernel and     potentially execute code. (CVE-2022-42719)

  - Various refcounting bugs in the multi-BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through     5.19.x before 5.19.16 could be used by local attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to trigger use-after-     free conditions to potentially execute code. (CVE-2022-42720)

  - A list management bug in BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through 5.19.x before     5.19.16 could be used by local attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to corrupt a linked list and, in     turn, potentially execute code. (CVE-2022-42721)

  - In the Linux kernel 5.8 through 5.19.x before 5.19.16, local attackers able to inject WLAN frames into the     mac80211 stack could cause a NULL pointer dereference denial-of-service attack against the beacon     protection of P2P devices. (CVE-2022-42722)

  - drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c in usbmon in the Linux kernel before 5.19.15 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows a user-     space client to corrupt the monitor's internal memory. (CVE-2022-43750)

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	Severity
204515	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2023-4.0-0420	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
173586	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2022-40476)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium
169292	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4617-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
167939	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4072-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
167728	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3998-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
151965	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2021-4.0-0065	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical

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