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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2025-19931)

high Nessus Plugin ID 274812

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-19931 advisory.

 - fs: fix UAF/GPF bug in nilfs_mdt_destroy (Abhi Das) [RHEL-116658] {CVE-2022-50367}
 - x86/vmscape: Add old Intel CPUs to affected list (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
 - x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
 - x86/bugs: Move cpu_bugs_smt_update() down (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
 - x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
 - x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
 - x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
 - Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation (Waiman Long) [RHEL-114285] {CVE-2025-40300}
 - mm: zswap: fix missing folio cleanup in writeback race path (Aristeu Rozanski) [RHEL-116239] {CVE-2023-53178}

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-2025-19931.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 274812

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-19931.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2025

Updated: 11/11/2025

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: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-53178

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:10:baseos_patch

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: 11/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-50367, CVE-2023-53178, CVE-2025-40300