SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2025:0784-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 232209

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0784-1 advisory.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 Confidential Computing kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2024-26708: mptcp: fastopen and PM-trigger subflow shutdown can race (bsc#1222672).
- CVE-2024-44974: mptcp: pm: avoid possible UaF when selecting endp (bsc#1230235).
- CVE-2024-45009: mptcp: pm: only decrement add_addr_accepted for MPJ req (bsc#1230438).
- CVE-2024-45010: mptcp: pm: only mark 'subflow' endp as available (bsc#1230439).
- CVE-2024-50085: mptcp: pm: fix UaF read in mptcp_pm_nl_rm_addr_or_subflow (bsc#1232508).
- CVE-2024-50185: mptcp: handle consistently DSS corruption (bsc#1233109).
- CVE-2024-53147: exfat: fix out-of-bounds access of directory entries (bsc#1234857).
- CVE-2024-56568: iommu/arm-smmu: Defer probe of clients after smmu device bound (bsc#1235032).
- CVE-2024-56647: net: Fix icmp host relookup triggering ip_rt_bug (bsc#1235435).
- CVE-2024-56720: bpf, sockmap: Several fixes to bpf_msg_pop_data (bsc#1235592).
- CVE-2025-21636: sctp: sysctl: plpmtud_probe_interval: avoid using current->nsproxy (bsc#1236113).
- CVE-2025-21637: sctp: sysctl: udp_port: avoid using current->nsproxy (bsc#1236114).
- CVE-2025-21638: sctp: sysctl: auth_enable: avoid using current->nsproxy (bsc#1236115).
- CVE-2025-21639: sctp: sysctl: rto_min/max: avoid using current->nsproxy (bsc#1236122).
- CVE-2025-21640: sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: avoid using current->nsproxy (bsc#1236123).
- CVE-2025-21647: sched: sch_cake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts (bsc#1236133).
- CVE-2025-21680: pktgen: Avoid out-of-bounds access in get_imix_entries (bsc#1236700).
- CVE-2025-21687: vfio/platform: check the bounds of read/write syscalls (bsc#1237045).
- CVE-2025-21692: net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing (bsc#1237028).
- CVE-2025-21700: net: sched: Disallow replacing of child qdisc from one parent to another (bsc#1237159).

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: 232209

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0784-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 3/6/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2025-21692

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-coco_debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms-coco, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-coco, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source-coco, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-coco_debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel-coco, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-coco, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-coco-devel, 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: 3/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52924, CVE-2023-52925, CVE-2024-26708, CVE-2024-26810, CVE-2024-41055, CVE-2024-44974, CVE-2024-45009, CVE-2024-45010, CVE-2024-47701, CVE-2024-49884, CVE-2024-49950, CVE-2024-50073, CVE-2024-50085, CVE-2024-50115, CVE-2024-50185, CVE-2024-53147, CVE-2024-53173, CVE-2024-53226, CVE-2024-53239, CVE-2024-56539, CVE-2024-56548, CVE-2024-56568, CVE-2024-56579, CVE-2024-56605, CVE-2024-56647, CVE-2024-56720, CVE-2024-57889, CVE-2024-57948, CVE-2025-21636, CVE-2025-21637, CVE-2025-21638, CVE-2025-21639, CVE-2025-21640, CVE-2025-21647, CVE-2025-21680, CVE-2025-21684, CVE-2025-21687, CVE-2025-21688, CVE-2025-21689, CVE-2025-21690, CVE-2025-21692, CVE-2025-21697, CVE-2025-21699, CVE-2025-21700

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0784-1

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