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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2025-18281)

high Nessus Plugin ID 270805

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-2025-18281 advisory.

 - scsi: lpfc: Fix buffer free/clear order in deferred receive path (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-119115] {CVE-2025-39841}
 - firmware: arm_scpi: Ensure scpi_info is not assigned if the probe fails (Charles Mirabile) [RHEL-113836] {CVE-2022-50087}
 - sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-110811] {CVE-2025-38571}
 - efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-118256] {CVE-2025-39817}
 - sunrpc: fix handling of server side tls alerts (Steve Dickson) [RHEL-111070] {CVE-2025-38566}
 - wifi: cfg80211: sme: cap SSID length in __cfg80211_connect_result() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-117578] {CVE-2025-39849}
 - nfsd: don't ignore the return code of svc_proc_register() (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-93610] {CVE-2025-22026}

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-2025-18281.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 270805

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-18281.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2025

Updated: 10/20/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-38571

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/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-2025-39849

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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, 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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-50087, CVE-2025-22026, CVE-2025-38566, CVE-2025-38571, CVE-2025-39817, CVE-2025-39841, CVE-2025-39849