The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-20323 advisory.

    - selftest/x86/bugs: Add selftests for ITS (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 37863726]  {CVE-2024-28956}
    - x86/its: Align RETs in BHB clear sequence to avoid thunking (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 37863726]     {CVE-2024-28956}
    - x86/its: Add 'vmexit' option to skip mitigation on some CPUs (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 37863726]     {CVE-2024-28956}
    - x86/its: Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 37863726]  {CVE-2024-28956}
    - x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe return thunk (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 37863726]  {CVE-2024-28956}
    - x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe indirect thunk (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 37863726]  {CVE-2024-28956}
    - x86/its: Enumerate Indirect Target Selection (ITS) bug (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 37863726]     {CVE-2024-28956}
    - Documentation: x86/bugs/its: Add ITS documentation (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 37863726]  {CVE-2024-28956}
    - x86/alternatives: Remove faulty optimization (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 37863726]  {CVE-2024-28956}

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

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

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Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2025-20323)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235822

Version 1.1