SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:0203-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 214451

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0203-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2024-41087: Fix double free on error (bsc#1228466).
- CVE-2024-53095: smb: client: Fix use-after-free of network namespace (bsc#1233642).
- CVE-2024-53146: NFSD: Prevent a potential integer overflow (bsc#1234853).
- CVE-2024-53156: wifi: ath9k: add range check for conn_rsp_epid in htc_connect_service() (bsc#1234846).
- CVE-2024-53173: NFSv4.0: Fix a use-after-free problem in the asynchronous open() (bsc#1234891).
- CVE-2024-53179: smb: client: fix use-after-free of signing key (bsc#1234921).
- CVE-2024-53214: vfio/pci: Properly hide first-in-list PCIe extended capability (bsc#1235004).
- CVE-2024-53239: ALSA: 6fire: Release resources at card release (bsc#1235054).
- CVE-2024-53240: xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device (bsc#1234281).
- CVE-2024-53241: x86/xen: use new hypercall functions instead of hypercall page (XSA-466 bsc#1234282).
- CVE-2024-56539: wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_config_scan() (bsc#1234963).
- CVE-2024-56548: hfsplus: do not query the device logical block size multiple times (bsc#1235073).
- CVE-2024-56570: ovl: Filter invalid inodes with missing lookup function (bsc#1235035).
- CVE-2024-56598: jfs: array-index-out-of-bounds fix in dtReadFirst (bsc#1235220).
- CVE-2024-56604: Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid leaving dangling sk pointer in rfcomm_sock_alloc() (bsc#1235056).
- CVE-2024-56605: Bluetooth: L2CAP: do not leave dangling sk pointer on error in l2cap_sock_create() (bsc#1235061).
- CVE-2024-56619: nilfs2: fix potential out-of-bounds memory access in nilfs_find_entry() (bsc#1235224).
- CVE-2024-8805: Bluetooth: hci_event: Align BR/EDR JUST_WORKS paring with LE (bsc#1230697).

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 214451

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0203-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/22/2025

Updated: 1/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8805

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/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-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-macros, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_147-default, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-livepatch-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default

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: 1/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-47202, CVE-2022-49035, CVE-2024-41087, CVE-2024-50154, CVE-2024-53095, CVE-2024-53142, CVE-2024-53146, CVE-2024-53156, CVE-2024-53173, CVE-2024-53179, CVE-2024-53206, CVE-2024-53214, CVE-2024-53239, CVE-2024-53240, CVE-2024-53241, CVE-2024-56539, CVE-2024-56548, CVE-2024-56570, CVE-2024-56598, CVE-2024-56604, CVE-2024-56605, CVE-2024-56619, CVE-2024-8805

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0203-1

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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:0203-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 214451

Synopsis

Description

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Plugin Details

Risk Information

VPR

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

Vulnerability Information

Reference Information