SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 17 for SLE 15 SP5) (SUSE-SU-2025:0181-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 214432

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-2025:0181-1 advisory.

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150500_55_73 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2024-50264: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans (bsc#1233712).
- CVE-2022-48956: ipv6: avoid use-after-free in ip6_fragment() (bsc#1232637).
- CVE-2021-47517: Fix panic when interrupt coaleceing is set via ethtool (bsc#1225429).
- CVE-2024-43861: Fix memory leak for not ip packets (bsc#1229553).

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-5_14_21-150500_55_73-default package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 214432

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0181-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/21/2025

Updated: 1/21/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50264

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_73-default, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 1/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-47517, CVE-2022-48956, CVE-2024-43861, CVE-2024-50264

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0181-1

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