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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2025-7903)
high Nessus Plugin ID 237182
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Synopsis
The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-7903 advisory.- vsock: Orphan socket after transport release (Jay Shin) [RHEL-89113] {CVE-2025-21756}
- vsock: Keep the binding until socket destruction (Jay Shin) [RHEL-89113] {CVE-2025-21756}
- bpf, vsock: Invoke proto::close on close() (Jay Shin) [RHEL-89113] {CVE-2025-21756}
- net: ppp: Add bound checking for skb data on ppp_sync_txmung (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-89646] {CVE-2025-37749}
- dm-flakey: Fix memory corruption in optional corrupt_bio_byte feature (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-86899] {CVE-2025-21966}
- soc: qcom: socinfo: Avoid out of bounds read of serial number (Jared Kangas) [RHEL-88252] {CVE-2024-58007}
- io_uring/sqpoll: zero sqd->thread on tctx errors (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-87264] {CVE-2025-21633}
- nvme-tcp: fix potential memory corruption in nvme_tcp_recv_pdu() (Chris Leech) [RHEL-86915] {CVE-2025-21927}
- iscsi_ibft: Fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning in ibft_attr_show_nic() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-86840] {CVE-2025-21993}
- tpm: Change to kvalloc() in eventlog/acpi.c (Stepan Horacek) [RHEL-82147] {CVE-2024-58005}
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.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 237182
File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-7903.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 5/23/2025
Updated: 5/23/2025
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Critical
Score: 9.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21966
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rtla, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rv, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-uki-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uki-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libperf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uki-virt-addons, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:6:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9::baseos_latest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025