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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2025-21917)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 276743

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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-2025-21917 advisory.

 - i40e: add max boundary check for VF filters (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-123799] {CVE-2025-39968}
 - i40e: fix validation of VF state in get resources (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-123799] {CVE-2025-39969}
 - i40e: fix input validation logic for action_meta (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-123799] {CVE-2025-39970}
 - i40e: fix idx validation in config queues msg (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-123799] {CVE-2025-39971}
 - i40e: fix idx validation in i40e_validate_queue_map (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-123799] {CVE-2025-39972}
 - i40e: add validation for ring_len param (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-123799] {CVE-2025-39973}
 - NFS: Fix a race when updating an existing write (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-113849] {CVE-2025-39697}
 - nfs: fold nfs_page_group_lock_subrequests into nfs_lock_and_join_requests (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-113849] {CVE-2025-39697}

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-2025-21917.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 276743

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-21917.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/25/2025

Updated: 2/9/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-39971

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 11/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-39697, CVE-2025-39971