The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-8856 advisory.

    - lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Fix rare race in __genradix_ptr_alloc() (Waiman Long) [RHEL-62139]     {CVE-2024-47668}
    - bonding: fix xfrm real_dev null pointer dereference (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-57239] {CVE-2024-44989}
    - bonding: fix null pointer deref in bond_ipsec_offload_ok (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-57233] {CVE-2024-44990}
    - bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf (Viktor Malik) [RHEL-49414] {CVE-2024-41009}
    - xprtrdma: fix pointer derefs in error cases of rpcrdma_ep_create (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-49309]     {CVE-2022-48773}
    - ELF: fix kernel.randomize_va_space double read (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-60669] {CVE-2024-46826}
    - nouveau: lock the client object tree. (Abdiel Janulgue) [RHEL-35118] {CVE-2024-27062}
    - dmaengine: fix NULL pointer in channel unregistration function (Jerry Snitselaar) [RHEL-28867]     {CVE-2023-52492}
    - dma-direct: Leak pages on dma_set_decrypted() failure (Jerry Snitselaar) [RHEL-37335] {CVE-2024-35939}
    - drm/i915/gt: Fix potential UAF by revoke of fence registers (Mika Penttila) [RHEL-53633]     {CVE-2024-41092}
    - kobject_uevent: Fix OOB access within zap_modalias_env() (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-55000] {CVE-2024-42292}
    - gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush (Andrew Price) [RHEL-51553] {CVE-2024-42079}
    - of: module: add buffer overflow check in of_modalias() (Charles Mirabile) [RHEL-44267] {CVE-2024-38541}
    - padata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper() (Steve Best) [RHEL-56162] {CVE-2024-43889}
    - sctp: Fix null-ptr-deref in reuseport_add_sock(). (Xin Long) [RHEL-56234] {CVE-2024-44935}
    - net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-43864] {CVE-2024-38608}
    - net/mlx5e: Add wrapping for auxiliary_driver ops and remove unused args (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-43864]     {CVE-2024-38608}
    - r8169: Fix possible ring buffer corruption on fragmented Tx packets. (cki-backport-bot) [RHEL-44031]     {CVE-2024-38586}
    - netfilter: flowtable: initialise extack before use (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-58542] {CVE-2024-45018}
    - memcg: protect concurrent access to mem_cgroup_idr (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-56252] {CVE-2024-43892}
    - memcontrol: ensure memcg acquired by id is properly set up (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-56252] {CVE-2024-43892}
    - mm: memcontrol: fix cannot alloc the maximum memcg ID (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-56252] {CVE-2024-43892}
    - mm/memcg: minor cleanup for MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-56252] {CVE-2024-43892}
    - netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: do not free live element (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-34221] {CVE-2024-26924}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: missing iterator type in lookup walk (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-35033] {CVE-2024-27017}
    - netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: walk over current view on netlink dump (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-35033]     {CVE-2024-27017}
    - netfilter: nftables: add helper function to flush set elements (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-35033]     {CVE-2024-27017}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: prefer nft_chain_validate (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-51040] {CVE-2024-41042}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: fully validate NFT_DATA_VALUE on store to data registers (Phil Sutter)     [RHEL-51516] {CVE-2024-42070}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_flowtable_type_get() (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-43003]     {CVE-2024-35898}
    - netfilter: ipset: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-47606] {CVE-2024-39503}
    - netfilter: ipset: Fix race between namespace cleanup and gc in the list:set type (Phil Sutter)     [RHEL-47606] {CVE-2024-39503}
    - netfilter: ipset: Add list flush to cancel_gc (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-47606] {CVE-2024-39503}
    - netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: Add protection for bmp length out of range (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-42680]     {CVE-2024-26851}
    - netfilter: bridge: replace physindev with physinif in nf_bridge_info (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-37038     RHEL-37039] {CVE-2024-35839}
    - netfilter: propagate net to nf_bridge_get_physindev (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-37038 RHEL-37039]     {CVE-2024-35839}
    - netfilter: nfnetlink_log: use proper helper for fetching physinif (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-37038     RHEL-37039] {CVE-2024-35839}
    - netfilter: nf_queue: remove excess nf_bridge variable (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-37038 RHEL-37039]     {CVE-2024-35839}
    - dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk (Steve Best) [RHEL-54985] {CVE-2024-42301}
    - KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed (Sean Christopherson) [RHEL-35100]     {CVE-2024-26976}
    - bnxt_re: avoid shift undefined behavior in bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-44279]     {CVE-2024-38540}
    - tipc: Return non-zero value from tipc_udp_addr2str() on error (Xin Long) [RHEL-55069] {CVE-2024-42284}
    - Bluetooth: Fix TOCTOU in HCI debugfs implementation (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-26831] {CVE-2024-24857}
    - drm/i915/dpt: Make DPT object unshrinkable (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-47856] {CVE-2024-40924}
    - tipc: force a dst refcount before doing decryption (Xin Long) [RHEL-48363] {CVE-2024-40983}
    - block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media (Ming Lei) [RHEL-54763]     {CVE-2024-43854}
    - gso: do not skip outer ip header in case of ipip and net_failover (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-55790]     {CVE-2022-48936}
    - drm/amdgpu: avoid using null object of framebuffer (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51405] {CVE-2024-41093}
    - ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init() (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-48170] {CVE-2024-40961}
    - mlxsw: spectrum_acl_erp: Fix object nesting warning (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-55568] {CVE-2024-43880}
    - ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51249] {CVE-2024-41066}
    - ibmvnic: rename local variable index to bufidx (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51249] {CVE-2024-41066}
    - netfilter: bridge: replace physindev with physinif in nf_bridge_info (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-37038     RHEL-37039] {CVE-2024-35839}
    - netfilter: propagate net to nf_bridge_get_physindev (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-37038 RHEL-37039]     {CVE-2024-35839}
    - netfilter: nfnetlink_log: use proper helper for fetching physinif (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-37038     RHEL-37039] {CVE-2024-35839}
    - netfilter: nf_queue: remove excess nf_bridge variable (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-37038 RHEL-37039]     {CVE-2024-35839}
    - USB: serial: mos7840: fix crash on resume (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-53680] {CVE-2024-42244}

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

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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2024-8856)

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