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Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2025-20609)

high Nessus Plugin ID 265745

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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-2025-20609 advisory.

 - HID: core: do not bypass hid_hw_raw_request (Benjamin Tissoires) [Orabug: 38454666] {CVE-2025-38494}
 - vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY (Budimir Markovic) [Orabug: 38454665] {CVE-2025-38618}
 - clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns (Al Viro) [Orabug:
 38454664] {CVE-2025-38499}
 - HID: core: ensure the allocated report buffer can contain the reserved report ID (Benjamin Tissoires) [Orabug: 38454662] {CVE-2025-38495}
 - nvme-tcp: sanitize request list handling (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 38454661] {CVE-2025-38264}

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-2025-20609.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 265745

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-20609.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2025

Updated: 9/23/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

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-2025-38495

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-38264

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 9/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-38264, CVE-2025-38494, CVE-2025-38495, CVE-2025-38499, CVE-2025-38618