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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 52 for SLE 12 SP5) (SUSE-SU-2025:0440-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216208

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0440-1 advisory.

 This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-122_189 fixes several issues.

 The following security issues were fixed:

 - CVE-2024-45016: netem: fix return value if duplicate enqueue fails (bsc#1230998).
 - CVE-2024-47684: tcp: check skb is non-NULL in tcp_rto_delta_us() (bsc#1231993).

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 kgraft-patch-4_12_14-122_189-default package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230998

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1231993

http://www.nessus.org/u?1e06cec7

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45016

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-47684

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216208

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0440-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/12/2025

Updated: 2/12/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47684

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_12_14-122_189-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: 2/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45016, CVE-2024-47684

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0440-1