SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel RT (Live Patch 0 for SLE 15 SP6) (SUSE-SU-2025:0643-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216740

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-2025:0643-1 advisory.

This update for the Linux Kernel 6.4.0-150600_8 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2024-35789: wifi: mac80211: check/clear fast rx for non-4addr sta VLAN changes (bsc#1227320).
- CVE-2024-40956: dmaengine: idxd: Fix possible Use-After-Free in irq_process_work_list (bsc#1228585).
- CVE-2024-53104: media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format (bsc#1236783).

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-6_4_0-150600_8-rt package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216740

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0643-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/25/2025

Updated: 2/25/2025

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-2024-53104

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-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_8-rt, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 2/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2024

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35789, CVE-2024-40956, CVE-2024-53104

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0643-1

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