SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:0517-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216458

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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-2025:0517-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2024-35863: Fixed potential UAF in is_valid_oplock_break() (bsc#1224763).
- CVE-2024-50199: mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma (bsc#1233112).
- CVE-2024-53104: media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format (bsc#1234025).
- CVE-2024-56600: net: inet6: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet6_create() (bsc#1235217).
- CVE-2024-56601: net: inet: do not leave a dangling sk pointer in inet_create() (bsc#1235230).
- CVE-2024-56623: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix use after free on unload (bsc#1235466).
- CVE-2024-56650: netfilter: x_tables: fix LED ID check in led_tg_check() (bsc#1235430).
- CVE-2024-56658: net: defer final 'struct net' free in netns dismantle (bsc#1235441).
- CVE-2024-56664: bpf, sockmap: Fix race between element replace and close() (bsc#1235249).
- CVE-2024-56759: btrfs: fix use-after-free when COWing tree bock and tracing is enabled (bsc#1235645).
- CVE-2024-57791: net/smc: check return value of sock_recvmsg when draining clc data (bsc#1235759).
- CVE-2024-57798: drm/dp_mst: Ensure mst_primary pointer is valid in drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req() (bsc#1235818).
- CVE-2024-57849: s390/cpum_sf: Handle CPU hotplug remove during sampling (bsc#1235814).
- CVE-2024-57893: ALSA: seq: oss: Fix races at processing SysEx messages (bsc#1235920).

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: 216458

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0517-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/19/2025

Updated: 2/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-57798

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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:kernel-preempt-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-preempt, 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, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default, 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, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150300_59_191-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-64kb

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 2/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4244, CVE-2023-52923, CVE-2024-35863, CVE-2024-50199, CVE-2024-53104, CVE-2024-56600, CVE-2024-56601, CVE-2024-56623, CVE-2024-56650, CVE-2024-56658, CVE-2024-56664, CVE-2024-56759, CVE-2024-57791, CVE-2024-57798, CVE-2024-57849, CVE-2024-57893

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0517-1

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