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openSUSE Leap 15.6: Critical Kernel Update Addressing Four Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical update for openSUSE addressing four important vulnerabilities affecting the kernel code.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 6.4.0-150600_23_33 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

* CVE-2025-38664: ice: Fix a null pointer dereference in

ice_copy_and_init_pkg() (bsc#1248631).

* CVE-2025-38617: net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and

packet_notifier() (bsc#1249208).

* CVE-2025-38618: vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY

(bsc#1249207).

* CVE-2024-53164: net: sched: fix ordering of qlen adjustment (bsc#1246019).

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important race condition kernel OpenSUSE

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3935=1 SUSE-2025-3933=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP6-2025-3935=1 SUSE-SLE-

Module-Live-Patching-15-SP6-2025-3933=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_30-default-debuginfo-15-150600.4.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_33-default-15-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_30-default-15-150600.4.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_33-default-debuginfo-15-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_7-debugsource-15-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_6-debugsource-15-150600.4.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_30-default-debuginfo-15-150600.4.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_33-default-15-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_30-default-15-150600.4.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_33-default-debuginfo-15-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_7-debugsource-15-150600.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_6-debugsource-15-150600.4.1

References

* bsc#1246019

* bsc#1248631

* bsc#1249207

* bsc#1249208

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53164.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38617.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38618.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38664.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246019

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248631

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249207

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249208

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3935-1
Release Date: 2025-11-04T11:34:01Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important race condition kernel OpenSUSE

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