Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2025-11861)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243007

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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-2025-11861 advisory.

- net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling (Davide Caratti) [RHEL-95853] {CVE-2025-37797}
- ext4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-93555] {CVE-2025-22121}
- ext4: introduce ITAIL helper (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-93555] {CVE-2025-22121}
- ext4: avoid journaling sb update on error if journal is destroying (Brian Foster) [RHEL-93591] {CVE-2025-22113}
- net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds clause 45 read/write access (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-102093] {CVE-2025-38110}
- net: ch9200: fix uninitialised access during mii_nway_restart (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-101212] {CVE-2025-38086}
- media: uvcvideo: Fix double free in error path (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-98795] {CVE-2024-57980}
- RDMA/mlx5: Fix page_size variable overflow (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-99320] {CVE-2025-22091}
- wifi: iwlwifi: limit printed string from FW file (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-99384] {CVE-2025-21905}
- RDMA/core: Fix use-after-free when rename device name (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-99048] {CVE-2025-22085}
- mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-96368] {CVE-2025-37958}

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: High

ID: 243007

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-11861.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-57980

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:6:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-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

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: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-57980, CVE-2025-21905, CVE-2025-22085, CVE-2025-22091, CVE-2025-22113, CVE-2025-22121, CVE-2025-37797, CVE-2025-37958, CVE-2025-38086, CVE-2025-38110

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