SB2026072942 - SUSE update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 16 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7)
Published: July 29, 2026
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53359)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: 6.8 [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]
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.
2) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53366)
CWE-ID: CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds write
CVSSv4: 6.8 [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]
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.