Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2025-20365)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 238026

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-20365 advisory.

- selftest/x86/bugs: Add selftests for ITS (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- x86/its: Align RETs in BHB clear sequence to avoid thunking (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- x86/its: Add 'vmexit' option to skip mitigation on some CPUs (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- x86/its: Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe return thunk (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe indirect thunk (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- x86/its: Enumerate Indirect Target Selection (ITS) bug (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- Documentation: x86/bugs/its: Add ITS documentation (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- x86/alternatives: Remove faulty optimization (Josh Poimboeuf) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- x86/alternative: Optimize returns patching (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 37945842] {CVE-2024-28956}
- Bluetooth: hci_event: Align BR/EDR JUST_WORKS paring with LE (Luiz Augusto von Dentz) {CVE-2024-8805}

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 238026

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-20365.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 6/9/2025

Updated: 6/9/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8805

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28956

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-container, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::developer_uekr7, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:6:baseos_patch, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::uekr7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-container-debug, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::uekr7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-core, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9::baseos_latest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-core, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::developer_uekr7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28956, CVE-2024-8805

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