The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2493-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.


    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2021-47145: btrfs: do not BUG_ON in link_to_fixup_dir (bsc#1222005).
    - CVE-2021-47201: iavf: free q_vectors before queues in iavf_disable_vf (bsc#1222792).
    - CVE-2021-47275: bcache: avoid oversized read request in cache missing code path (bsc#1224965).
    - CVE-2021-47438: net/mlx5e: nullify cq->dbg pointer in mlx5_debug_cq_remove() (bsc#1225229)
    - CVE-2021-47498: dm rq: do not queue request to blk-mq during DM suspend (bsc#1225357).
    - CVE-2021-47520: can: pch_can: pch_can_rx_normal: fix use after free (bsc#1225431).
    - CVE-2021-47547: net: tulip: de4x5: fix the problem that the array 'lp->phy' may be out of bound     (bsc#1225505).
    - CVE-2023-4244: Fixed a use-after-free in the nf_tables component, which could be exploited to achieve     local privilege escalation (bsc#1215420).
    - CVE-2023-52507: Fixed possible shift-out-of-bounds in nfc/nci (bsc#1220833).
    - CVE-2023-52683: ACPI: LPIT: Avoid u32 multiplication overflow (bsc#1224627).
    - CVE-2023-52693: ACPI: video: check for error while searching for backlight device parent (bsc#1224686).
    - CVE-2023-52753: drm/amd/display: Avoid NULL dereference of timing generator (bsc#1225478).
    - CVE-2023-52817: drm/amdgpu: Fix a null pointer access when the smc_rreg pointer is NULL (bsc#1225569).
    - CVE-2023-52818: drm/amd: Fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds for SMU7 (bsc#1225530).
    - CVE-2023-52819: drm/amd: Fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds for Polaris and Tonga (bsc#1225532).
    - CVE-2024-26635: llc: Drop support for ETH_P_TR_802_2 (bsc#1221656).
    - CVE-2024-26636: llc: make llc_ui_sendmsg() more robust against bonding changes (bsc#1221659).
    - CVE-2024-26880: dm: call the resume method on internal suspend (bsc#1223188).
    - CVE-2024-35805: dm snapshot: fix lockup in dm_exception_table_exit (bsc#1224743).
    - CVE-2024-35819: soc: fsl: qbman: Use raw spinlock for cgr_lock (bsc#1224683).
    - CVE-2024-35828: wifi: libertas: fix some memleaks in lbs_allocate_cmd_buffer() (bsc#1224622).
    - CVE-2024-35947: dyndbg: fix old BUG_ON in >control parser (bsc#1224647).
    - CVE-2024-36014: drm/arm/malidp: fix a possible null pointer dereference (bsc#1225593).
    - CVE-2024-36941: wifi: nl80211: do not free NULL coalescing rule (bsc#1225835).
    - CVE-2024-38598: md: fix resync softlockup when bitmap size is less than array size (bsc#1226757).
    - CVE-2024-38619: usb-storage: alauda: Check whether the media is initialized (bsc#1226861).
    - CVE-2024-39301: net/9p: fix uninit-value in p9_client_rpc() (bsc#1226994).
    - CVE-2024-39475: fbdev: savage: Handle err return when savagefb_check_var failed (bsc#1227435)


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 SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:2493-1)

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Version 1.2 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408282302
Version 1.1 Jul 17, 2024, 9:32 AM New Plugin Feed: 202407170932