SB2026072901 - SUSE update for the Linux Kernel RT (Live Patch 2 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7)
Published: July 29, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 vulnerabilities.
1) Double free (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-23240)
CWE-ID: CWE-415 - Double Free
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a double free error within the tls_sw_cancel_work_tx() function in net/tls/tls_sw.c. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-31738)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read in vxlan_na_create when parsing neighbor discovery options. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted packet to cause a denial of service.
3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-43038)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read in ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach() when processing a forged ICMPv4 error containing a CIPSO IP option and an attacker-controlled inner IPv6 packet. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted ICMP error packet to cause a denial of service.
The issue arises because IPv4 control buffer data is reused as IPv6 control buffer data in a cloned skb, which can lead to a forged home address option offset being used during IPv6 TLV parsing.
4) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-46113)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free in KVM shadow paging when handling guest page table changes between VM entries. A local user can modify guest page tables to create a stale reverse-mapping entry and trigger a stale rmap walk to cause a denial of service.
This can be triggered during operations such as dirty logging or MMU notifier invalidations.
5) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53359)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free in the KVM x86 shadow paging logic when changing a PDE mapping from outside the guest and deleting a memslot. A local user can trigger stale rmap entries and subsequent dereference of a freed sptep to cause a denial of service.
The issue occurs when a modified PDE points to a non-leaf page, causing a role mismatch between reused shadow pages for large 2MB mappings and new 4KB mappings.
6) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53366)
CWE-ID: CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds write
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds write in __ip_append_data() when processing IPv4 packet data on the paged allocation path. A local user can trigger the faulty length calculations to cause a denial of service.
The issue occurs because fraggap bytes copied from the previous skb are placed into the new skb linear area while the allocation size does not account for those bytes.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.