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Oracle Linux 10 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2025-20371)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 240654
Synopsis
The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-20371 advisory.[6.12.0-100.28.2.el10uek]
- sched/eevdf: Fix se->slice being set to U64_MAX and resulting crash (Omar Sandoval)
- certs: Add new Oracle Linux Driver Signing (key 1) certificate (Sherry Yang) [Orabug: 37967533]
- Revert 'block: sysfs option to change ioticks granularity' (Gulam Mohamed) [Orabug: 37921776]
- RDS: use pin_user_pages_fast() (Stephen Brennan) [Orabug: 37968545]
[6.12.0-100.28.1.el10uek]
- KVM: SEV: Add KVM_SEV_SNP_ENABLE_REQ_CERTS command (Michael Roth) [Orabug: 37894105]
- KVM: Introduce KVM_EXIT_SNP_REQ_CERTS for SNP certificate-fetching (Michael Roth) [Orabug: 37894105]
- Revert 'KVM: Introduce KVM_EXIT_SNP_REQ_CERTS for SNP certificate-fetching' (Liam Merwick) [Orabug:
37894105]
- uek-rpm: Enable SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT in UEK8 (Harshit Mogalapalli) [Orabug: 37867042]
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.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 240654
File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-20371.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 6/26/2025
Updated: 6/26/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-37821
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 4.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules-extra-netfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules-deprecated, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules-wireless, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules-desktop, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules-deprecated, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules-usb, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-wireless, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-extra-netfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules-usb, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-desktop, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules-extra-netfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:10, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-modules-desktop, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules-wireless, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-usb, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-deprecated
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: 6/26/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-37821