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SUSE 15 SP5: Important Kernel Security Update for CVE-2025-40204 DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2025
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Critical security update for SUSE Kernel addressing eight vulnerabilities and recommending immediate installation.
An update that solves eight vulnerabilities and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Summary

## The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: * CVE-2022-50280: pnode: terminate at peers of source (bsc#1249806). * CVE-2023-53676: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix buffer overflow in lio_target_nacl_info_show() (bsc#1251786). * CVE-2024-53093: nvme-multipath: defer partition scanning (bsc#1233640). * CVE-2025-40040: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise (bsc#1252780). * CVE-2025-40048: uio_hv_generic: Let userspace take care of interrupt mask (bsc#1252862). * CVE-2025-40121: ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5651: Fix invalid quirk input mapping (bsc#1253367). * CVE-2025-40154: ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Fix invalid quirk input mapping (bsc#1253431).

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow SuSE code execution important kernel

References

* bsc#1233640

* bsc#1249806

* bsc#1251786

* bsc#1252033

* bsc#1252267

* bsc#1252780

* bsc#1252862

* bsc#1253367

* bsc#1253431

* bsc#1253436

Cross-

* CVE-2022-50280

* CVE-2023-53676

* CVE-2024-53093

* CVE-2025-40040

* CVE-2025-40048

* CVE-2025-40121

* CVE-2025-40154

* CVE-2025-40204

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2022-50280 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2022-50280 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2023-53676 ( SUSE ): 8.5

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2023-53676 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-53093 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2024-53093 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4506-1
Release Date: 2025-12-22T16:39:04Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow SuSE code execution important kernel

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