Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 44 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4) SUSE Patch security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE-SU-2026:0176-1 Final 1 1 2026-01-19T19:03:59Z current 2026-01-19T19:03:59Z 2026-01-19T19:03:59Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf.pl 2017-02-24T01:00:00Z Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 44 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4) This update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel 5.14.21-150400.24.176 fixes various security issues The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2022-50233: bluetooth: device name can cause reading kernel memory by not supplying terminal \0 (bsc#1249242). - CVE-2022-50327: ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value (bsc#1254451). - CVE-2022-50409: net: If sock is dead don't access sock's sk_wq in sk_stream_wait_memory (bsc#1250665). - CVE-2022-50490: bpf: Propagate error from htab_lock_bucket() to userspace (bsc#1251165). - CVE-2023-53676: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix buffer overflow in lio_target_nacl_info_show() (bsc#1251787). - CVE-2025-38476: rpl: Fix use-after-free in rpl_do_srh_inline() (bsc#1251203). - CVE-2025-38572: ipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment() (bsc#1248400). - CVE-2025-40204: sctp: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (bsc#1253437). 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SUSE-2026-176,SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP4-2026-176 Copyright SUSE LLC under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ Link for SUSE-SU-2026:0176-1 https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-January/023798.html E-Mail link for SUSE-SU-2026:0176-1 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248400 SUSE Bug 1248400 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1249242 SUSE Bug 1249242 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250665 SUSE Bug 1250665 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251165 SUSE Bug 1251165 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251203 SUSE Bug 1251203 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251787 SUSE Bug 1251787 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253437 SUSE Bug 1253437 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254451 SUSE Bug 1254451 https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50233/ SUSE CVE CVE-2022-50233 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50327/ SUSE CVE CVE-2022-50327 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50409/ SUSE CVE CVE-2022-50409 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50490/ SUSE CVE CVE-2022-50490 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53676/ SUSE CVE CVE-2023-53676 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38476/ SUSE CVE CVE-2025-38476 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38572/ SUSE CVE CVE-2025-38572 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40204/ SUSE CVE CVE-2025-40204 page SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name} Both dev_name and short_name are not guaranteed to be NULL terminated so this instead use strnlen and then attempt to determine if the resulting string needs to be truncated or not. CVE-2022-50233 SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 important To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50233.html CVE-2022-50233 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246968 SUSE Bug 1246968 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247374 SUSE Bug 1247374 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1249242 SUSE Bug 1249242 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value The return value of acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() could be NULL, which would cause a NULL pointer dereference to occur in acpi_device_hid(). [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits, added empty line after if () ] CVE-2022-50327 SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 important To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50327.html CVE-2022-50327 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1249859 SUSE Bug 1249859 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254451 SUSE Bug 1254451 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: If sock is dead don't access sock's sk_wq in sk_stream_wait_memory Fixes the below NULL pointer dereference: [...] [ 14.471200] Call Trace: [ 14.471562] <TASK> [ 14.471882] lock_acquire+0x245/0x2e0 [ 14.472416] ? remove_wait_queue+0x12/0x50 [ 14.473014] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x17/0x50 [ 14.473681] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3d/0x50 [ 14.474318] ? remove_wait_queue+0x12/0x50 [ 14.474907] remove_wait_queue+0x12/0x50 [ 14.475480] sk_stream_wait_memory+0x20d/0x340 [ 14.476127] ? do_wait_intr_irq+0x80/0x80 [ 14.476704] do_tcp_sendpages+0x287/0x600 [ 14.477283] tcp_bpf_push+0xab/0x260 [ 14.477817] tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir+0x297/0x500 [ 14.478461] ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x77/0xe0 [ 14.479096] tcp_bpf_send_verdict+0x105/0x470 [ 14.479729] tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x318/0x4f0 [ 14.480311] sock_sendmsg+0x2d/0x40 [ 14.480822] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1b4/0x1c0 [ 14.481390] ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x62/0x80 [ 14.482048] ___sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xb0 [ 14.482580] ? vmf_insert_pfn_prot+0x91/0x150 [ 14.483215] ? __do_fault+0x2a/0x1a0 [ 14.483738] ? do_fault+0x15e/0x5d0 [ 14.484246] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x56b/0x1040 [ 14.484874] ? lock_is_held_type+0xdf/0x130 [ 14.485474] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90 [ 14.486046] ? __sys_sendmsg+0x41/0x70 [ 14.486587] __sys_sendmsg+0x41/0x70 [ 14.487105] ? intel_pmu_drain_pebs_core+0x350/0x350 [ 14.487822] do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80 [ 14.488345] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [...] The test scenario has the following flow: thread1 thread2 ----------- --------------- tcp_bpf_sendmsg tcp_bpf_send_verdict tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir sock_close tcp_bpf_push_locked __sock_release tcp_bpf_push //inet_release do_tcp_sendpages sock->ops->release sk_stream_wait_memory // tcp_close sk_wait_event sk->sk_prot->close release_sock(__sk); *** lock_sock(sk); __tcp_close sock_orphan(sk) sk->sk_wq = NULL release_sock **** lock_sock(__sk); remove_wait_queue(sk_sleep(sk), &wait); sk_sleep(sk) //NULL pointer dereference &rcu_dereference_raw(sk->sk_wq)->wait While waiting for memory in thread1, the socket is released with its wait queue because thread2 has closed it. This caused by tcp_bpf_send_verdict didn't increase the f_count of psock->sk_redir->sk_socket->file in thread1. We should check if SOCK_DEAD flag is set on wakeup in sk_stream_wait_memory before accessing the wait queue. CVE-2022-50409 SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 important To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50409.html CVE-2022-50409 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247374 SUSE Bug 1247374 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250392 SUSE Bug 1250392 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250665 SUSE Bug 1250665 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Propagate error from htab_lock_bucket() to userspace In __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch() if htab_lock_bucket() returns -EBUSY, it will go to next bucket. Going to next bucket may not only skip the elements in current bucket silently, but also incur out-of-bound memory access or expose kernel memory to userspace if current bucket_cnt is greater than bucket_size or zero. Fixing it by stopping batch operation and returning -EBUSY when htab_lock_bucket() fails, and the application can retry or skip the busy batch as needed. CVE-2022-50490 SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 important To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50490.html CVE-2022-50490 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251164 SUSE Bug 1251164 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251165 SUSE Bug 1251165 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix buffer overflow in lio_target_nacl_info_show() The function lio_target_nacl_info_show() uses sprintf() in a loop to print details for every iSCSI connection in a session without checking for the buffer length. With enough iSCSI connections it's possible to overflow the buffer provided by configfs and corrupt the memory. This patch replaces sprintf() with sysfs_emit_at() that checks for buffer boundries. CVE-2023-53676 SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 important To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53676.html CVE-2023-53676 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251786 SUSE Bug 1251786 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251787 SUSE Bug 1251787 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rpl: Fix use-after-free in rpl_do_srh_inline(). Running lwt_dst_cache_ref_loop.sh in selftest with KASAN triggers the splat below [0]. rpl_do_srh_inline() fetches ipv6_hdr(skb) and accesses it after skb_cow_head(), which is illegal as the header could be freed then. Let's fix it by making oldhdr to a local struct instead of a pointer. [0]: [root@fedora net]# ./lwt_dst_cache_ref_loop.sh ... TEST: rpl (input) [ 57.631529] ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rpl_do_srh_inline.isra.0 (net/ipv6/rpl_iptunnel.c:174) Read of size 40 at addr ffff888122bf96d8 by task ping6/1543 CPU: 50 UID: 0 PID: 1543 Comm: ping6 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-01302-gfadd1e6231b1 #23 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122) print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:409 mm/kasan/report.c:521) kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:221 mm/kasan/report.c:636) kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:175 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/generic.c:189 (discriminator 1)) __asan_memmove (mm/kasan/shadow.c:94 (discriminator 2)) rpl_do_srh_inline.isra.0 (net/ipv6/rpl_iptunnel.c:174) rpl_input (net/ipv6/rpl_iptunnel.c:201 net/ipv6/rpl_iptunnel.c:282) lwtunnel_input (net/core/lwtunnel.c:459) ipv6_rcv (./include/net/dst.h:471 (discriminator 1) ./include/net/dst.h:469 (discriminator 1) net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:79 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/netfilter.h:317 (discriminator 1) ./include/linux/netfilter.h:311 (discriminator 1) net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:311 (discriminator 1)) __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:5967) process_backlog (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:869 net/core/dev.c:6440) __napi_poll.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:7452) net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7518 net/core/dev.c:7643) handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:579) do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:480 (discriminator 20)) </IRQ> <TASK> __local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:407) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4740) ip6_finish_output2 (./include/linux/netdevice.h:3358 ./include/net/neighbour.h:526 ./include/net/neighbour.h:540 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:141) ip6_finish_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:215 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:226) ip6_output (./include/linux/netfilter.h:306 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:248) ip6_send_skb (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1983) rawv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/raw.c:588 net/ipv6/raw.c:918) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:714 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:729 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2228 (discriminator 1)) __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2231) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1)) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130) RIP: 0033:0x7f68cffb2a06 Code: 5d e8 41 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 75 19 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 11 e8 26 ff ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 45 10 0f 05 <48> 8b 5d f8 c9 c3 0f 1f 40 00 f3 0f 1e fa 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 08 RSP: 002b:00007ffefb7c53d0 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000564cd69f10a0 RCX: 00007f68cffb2a06 RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000564cd69f10a4 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffefb7c53f0 R08: 0000564cd6a032ac R09: 000000000000001c R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000564cd69f10a4 R13: 0000000000000040 R14: 00007ffefb7c66e0 R15: 0000564cd69f10a0 </TASK> Allocated by task 1543: kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:48) kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:60 (discriminator 1) mm/kasan/common.c:69 (discriminator 1)) __kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:319 mm/kasan/common.c:345) kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof (./include/linux/kasan.h:250 mm/slub.c:4148 mm/slub.c:4197 mm/slub.c:4249) kmalloc_reserve (net/core/skbuff.c:581 (discriminator 88)) __alloc_skb (net/core/skbuff.c:669) __ip6_append_data (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1672 (discriminator 1)) ip6_ ---truncated--- CVE-2025-38476 SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 important To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38476.html CVE-2025-38476 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247317 SUSE Bug 1247317 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251203 SUSE Bug 1251203 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment() syzbot was able to craft a packet with very long IPv6 extension headers leading to an overflow of skb->transport_header. This 16bit field has a limited range. Add skb_reset_transport_header_careful() helper and use it from ipv6_gso_segment() WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5871 Comm: syz-executor211 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-syzkaller-g7abc678e3084 #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025 RIP: 0010:skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline] RIP: 0010:ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151 Call Trace: <TASK> skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53 nsh_gso_segment+0x54a/0xe10 net/nsh/nsh.c:110 skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53 __skb_gso_segment+0x342/0x510 net/core/gso.c:124 skb_gso_segment include/net/gso.h:83 [inline] validate_xmit_skb+0x857/0x11b0 net/core/dev.c:3950 validate_xmit_skb_list+0x84/0x120 net/core/dev.c:4000 sch_direct_xmit+0xd3/0x4b0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:329 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4102 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x17b6/0x3a70 net/core/dev.c:4679 CVE-2025-38572 SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 important To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38572.html CVE-2025-38572 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248399 SUSE Bug 1248399 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248400 SUSE Bug 1248400 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time To prevent timing attacks, MACs need to be compared in constant time. Use the appropriate helper function for this. CVE-2025-40204 SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4:kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_176-default-6-150400.2.1 important To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20260176-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40204.html CVE-2025-40204 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253436 SUSE Bug 1253436 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253437 SUSE Bug 1253437