The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9007 advisory.

    - xen-blkback: set ring->xenblkd to NULL after kthread_stop() (Pawel Wieczorkiewicz)  [Orabug: 32260252]     {CVE-2020-29569}
    - xenbus/xenbus_backend: Disallow pending watch messages (SeongJae Park)  [Orabug: 32253409]     {CVE-2020-29568}
    - xen/xenbus: Count pending messages for each watch (SeongJae Park)  [Orabug: 32253409]  {CVE-2020-29568}
    - xen/xenbus/xen_bus_type: Support will_handle watch callback (SeongJae Park)  [Orabug: 32253409]     {CVE-2020-29568}
    - xen/xenbus: Add 'will_handle' callback support in xenbus_watch_path() (SeongJae Park)  [Orabug:
    32253409]  {CVE-2020-29568}
    - xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing (SeongJae Park)  [Orabug: 32253409]     {CVE-2020-29568}
    - target: fix XCOPY NAA identifier lookup (David Disseldorp)  [Orabug: 32248035]  {CVE-2020-28374}
    - futex: Fix inode life-time issue (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 32233515]  {CVE-2020-14381}
    - perf/core: Fix race in the perf_mmap_close() function (Jiri Olsa)  [Orabug: 32233352]  {CVE-2020-14351}
    - icmp: randomize the global rate limiter (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 32227958]  {CVE-2020-25705}
    - vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY (Daniel Vetter)  [Orabug: 32187738]  {CVE-2020-28974}
    - Fonts: Support FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros for built-in fonts (Peilin Ye)  [Orabug: 32176254]     {CVE-2020-28915}
    - fbdev, newport_con: Move FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros into linux/font.h (Peilin Ye)  [Orabug: 32176254]     {CVE-2020-28915}
    - xen/events: block rogue events for some time (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]  {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/events: defer eoi in case of excessive number of events (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]     {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/events: use a common cpu hotplug hook for event channels (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]     {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/events: switch user event channels to lateeoi model (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]     {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/pciback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]  {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/pvcallsback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]  {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/scsiback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]  {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/netback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]  {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/blkback: use lateeoi irq binding (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]  {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/events: add a new 'late EOI' evtchn framework (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]  {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/events: fix race in evtchn_fifo_unmask() (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]  {CVE-2020-27673}
    - xen/events: add a proper barrier to 2-level uevent unmasking (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 32177535]     {CVE-2020-27673}
    - perf/core: Fix a memory leak in perf_event_parse_addr_filter() (kiyin())  [Orabug: 32131172]     {CVE-2020-25704}
    - vt: keyboard, extend func_buf_lock to readers (Jiri Slaby)  [Orabug: 32122948]  {CVE-2020-25656}
    - vt: keyboard, simplify vt_kdgkbsent (Jiri Slaby)  [Orabug: 32122948]  {CVE-2020-25656}
    - tty: make FONTX ioctl use the tty pointer they were actually passed (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 32122725]     {CVE-2020-25668}
    - Bluetooth: A2MP: Fix not initializing all members (Luiz Augusto von Dentz)  [Orabug: 32021285]     {CVE-2020-12352}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2021-9007)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144906

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Version 1.8 Oct 23, 2024, 3:11 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410230311
Version 1.7 Jan 30, 2024, 3:19 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202401301519
Version 1.6 Jan 16, 2024, 8:55 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401162055
Version 1.5 Dec 7, 2022, 4:47 PM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212071647
Version 1.5 Jan 16, 2024, 5:39 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401161739