The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-8493 advisory.

  - Python 3.9.x and 3.10.x through 3.10.8 on Linux allows local privilege escalation in a non-default     configuration. The Python multiprocessing library, when used with the forkserver start method on Linux,     allows pickles to be deserialized from any user in the same machine local network namespace, which in many     system configurations means any user on the same machine. Pickles can execute arbitrary code. Thus, this     allows for local user privilege escalation to the user that any forkserver process is running as. Setting     multiprocessing.util.abstract_sockets_supported to False is a workaround. The forkserver start method for     multiprocessing is not the default start method. This issue is Linux specific because only Linux supports     abstract namespace sockets. CPython before 3.9 does not make use of Linux abstract namespace sockets by     default. Support for users manually specifying an abstract namespace socket was added as a bugfix in 3.7.8     and 3.8.4, but users would need to make specific uncommon API calls in order to do that in CPython before     3.9. (CVE-2022-42919)

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

Oracle Linux 9 : python3.9 (ELSA-2022-8493)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168164

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