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Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2025-20404)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 241532

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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-2025-20404 advisory.

 - Add Zen34 clients (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 38129825] {CVE-2024-36350} {CVE-2024-36357}
 - x86/process: Move the buffer clearing before MONITOR (Kim Phillips) [Orabug: 38129825] {CVE-2024-36350} {CVE-2024-36357}
 - Add normal counters (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 38129825] {CVE-2024-36350} {CVE-2024-36357}
 - KVM: SVM: Advertize TSA CPUID bits to guests (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 38129825] {CVE-2024-36350} {CVE-2024-36357}
 - x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 38129825] {CVE-2024-36350} {CVE-2024-36357}
 - x86/bugs: Rename MDS machinery to something more generic (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 38129825] {CVE-2024-36350} {CVE-2024-36357}
 - x86/CPU/AMD: Add ZenX generations flags (Borislav Petkov (AMD)) [Orabug: 38129825] {CVE-2024-36350} {CVE-2024-36357}

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

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-20404.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 241532

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-20404.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2025

Updated: 7/8/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-36350

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-36357

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-container, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k, 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-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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-container-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek64k-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-core

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: 7/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-36350, CVE-2024-36357