The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-28048 advisory.

    - netfilter: nf_tables: reject duplicate device on updates (Pablo Neira Ayuso)  [Orabug: 38744086]     {CVE-2025-38678}
    - PCI: rcar: Demote WARN() to dev_warn_ratelimited() in rcar_pcie_wakeup() (Marek Vasut) [Orabug:
    38641258] {CVE-2024-43876}
    - usb: gadget: f_acm: Refactor bind path to use __free() (Kuen-Han Tsai) [Orabug: 38601854]     {CVE-2025-40094}
    - usb: gadget: f_ncm: Refactor bind path to use __free() (Kuen-Han Tsai) [Orabug: 38601837]     {CVE-2025-40092}
    - NFSD: Define a proc_layoutcommit for the FlexFiles layout type (Chuck Lever) [Orabug: 38601818]     {CVE-2025-40087}
    - vfs: Don't leak disconnected dentries on umount (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 38601923] {CVE-2025-40105}
    - ALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL pointer deference in try_to_register_card (Jiaming Zhang) [Orabug: 38597093]     {CVE-2025-40085}
    - net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth (Dmitry Safonov) [Orabug: 38649259] {CVE-2025-40173}
    - ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination (Deepanshu Kartikey) [Orabug: 38649222]     {CVE-2025-40167}
    - media: pci: ivtv: Add check for DMA map result (Mikhail Kobuk) [Orabug: 38641260] {CVE-2024-43877}
    - pid: Add a judgment for ns null in pid_nr_ns (Gaoxiang17) [Orabug: 38649275] {CVE-2025-40178}
    - dm: fix NULL pointer dereference in __dm_suspend() (Zheng Qixing) [Orabug: 38649056] {CVE-2025-40134}
    - tracing: Fix race condition in kprobe initialization causing NULL pointer dereference (Yuan Chen)     [Orabug: 38592032] {CVE-2025-40042}
    - net: usb: asix: hold PM usage ref to avoid PM/MDIO + RTNL deadlock (Oleksij Rempel) [Orabug: 38649002]     {CVE-2025-40120}
    - media: mc: Clear minor number before put device (Edward Adam Davis) [Orabug: 38649397] {CVE-2025-40197}
    - Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode() (Phillip Lougher) [Orabug: 38649424]     {CVE-2025-40200}
    - KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O (Sean Christopherson) [Orabug:
    38591958] {CVE-2025-40026}
    - ext4: guard against EA inode refcount underflow in xattr update (Ahmet Eray Karadag) [Orabug: 38649329]     {CVE-2025-40190}
    - ext4: verify orphan file size is not too big (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 38649284] {CVE-2025-40179}
    - sctp: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 38649450] {CVE-2025-40204}
    - cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix object lifecycle issue in update_qos_request() (Rafael J. Wysocki) [Orabug:
    38649365] {CVE-2025-40194}
    - btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh() (Anderson Nascimento) [Orabug: 38649461]     {CVE-2025-40205}
    - crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption (Herbert Xu) [Orabug: 38581454]     {CVE-2025-40019}
    - bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6} (Daniel Borkmann) [Orabug: 38649299]     {CVE-2025-40183}
    - tcp: Don't call reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_conn_request(). (Kuniyuki Iwashima) [Orabug: 38649578]     {CVE-2025-40186}
    - net/sctp: fix a null dereference in sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce() (Alexandr Sapozhnikov)     [Orabug: 38649311] {CVE-2025-40187}
    - drm/vmwgfx: Fix Use-after-free in validation (Ian Forbes) [Orabug: 38643545] {CVE-2025-40111}
    - scsi: mvsas: Fix use-after-free bugs in mvs_work_queue (Duoming Zhou) [Orabug: 38557653]     {CVE-2025-40001}
    - pinctrl: check the return value of pinmux_ops::get_function_name() (Bartosz Golaszewski) [Orabug:
    38591980] {CVE-2025-40030}
    - Input: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak (Zhen Ni) [Orabug: 38592000]     {CVE-2025-40035}
    - mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area (Yang Shi) [Orabug: 38649149]     {CVE-2025-40153}
    - fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling (Larshin Sergey) [Orabug: 38592047] {CVE-2025-40044}
    - uio_hv_generic: Let userspace take care of interrupt mask (Naman Jain) [Orabug: 38592066]     {CVE-2025-40048}
    - Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent (Phillip Lougher) [Orabug: 38592076] {CVE-2025-40049}
    - net: dlink: handle copy_thresh allocation failure (Moon Yeounsu) [Orabug: 38592097] {CVE-2025-40053}
    - ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect() (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 38592109] {CVE-2025-40055}
    - net: usb: Remove disruptive netif_wake_queue in rtl8150_set_multicast (I Viswanath) [Orabug: 38649095]     {CVE-2025-40140}
    - scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info() (Ranjan Kumar) [Orabug: 38648980]     {CVE-2025-40115}
    - ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup (Slavin Liu) [Orabug: 38581444] {CVE-2025-40018}
    - ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5651: Fix invalid quirk input mapping (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 38649006]     {CVE-2025-40121}
    - ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Fix invalid quirk input mapping (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 38649156]     {CVE-2025-40154}
    - pps: fix warning in pps_register_cdev when register device fail (Wang Liang) [Orabug: 38592169]     {CVE-2025-40070}
    - scsi: pm80xx: Fix array-index-out-of-of-bounds on rmmod (Niklas Cassel) [Orabug: 38649566]     {CVE-2025-40118}
    - bpf: Explicitly check accesses to bpf_sock_addr (Paul Chaignon) [Orabug: 38592204] {CVE-2025-40078}
    - nvmet-fc: move lsop put work to nvmet_fc_ls_req_op (Daniel Wagner) [Orabug: 38649248] {CVE-2025-40171}
    - blk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx (Li Nan) [Orabug:
    38649025] {CVE-2025-40125}
    - perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() (Leo Yan) [Orabug: 38592220] {CVE-2025-40081}
    - net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled (Nalivayko Sergey) [Orabug: 38591964] {CVE-2025-40027}
    - crypto: rng - Ensure set_ent is always present (Herbert Xu) [Orabug: 38643530] {CVE-2025-40109}
    - media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release (Duoming Zhou) [Orabug: 38548036]     {CVE-2025-39994}
    - udp: Fix memory accounting leak. (Kuniyuki Iwashima) [Orabug: 37844324] {CVE-2025-22058}
    - media: rc: fix races with imon_disconnect() (Larshin Sergey) [Orabug: 38548026] {CVE-2025-39993}
    - media: b2c2: Fix use-after-free causing by irq_check_work in flexcop_pci_remove (Duoming Zhou) [Orabug:
    38548050] {CVE-2025-39996}
    - scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow (Wang Haoran) [Orabug:
    38548058] {CVE-2025-39998}
    - i40e: add validation for ring_len param (Lukasz Czapnik) [Orabug: 38547951,38603025,38607608]     {CVE-2025-39973}
    - i40e: fix idx validation in config queues msg (Lukasz Czapnik) [Orabug: 38547937] {CVE-2025-39971}
    - i40e: fix validation of VF state in get resources (Lukasz Czapnik) [Orabug: 38547928] {CVE-2025-39969}
    - mm/hugetlb: fix folio is still mapped when deleted (Tu Jinjiang) [Orabug: 38560480] {CVE-2025-40006}
    - fbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font (Samasth Norway Ananda) [Orabug: 38547912]     {CVE-2025-39967}
    - tracing: dynevent: Add a missing lockdown check on dynevent (Masami Hiramatsu) [Orabug: 38581470]     {CVE-2025-40021}
    - i40e: add max boundary check for VF filters (Lukasz Czapnik) [Orabug: 38547922] {CVE-2025-39968}
    - i40e: fix input validation logic for action_meta (Lukasz Czapnik) [Orabug: 38547932] {CVE-2025-39970}
    - i40e: fix idx validation in i40e_validate_queue_map (Lukasz Czapnik) [Orabug: 38547945] {CVE-2025-39972}
    - crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_alg_ctx (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 38641289]     {CVE-2025-40022}
    - crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg (Herbert Xu) [Orabug:
    38537468,38575792,38575804] {CVE-2025-39964}
    - drm/gma500: Fix null dereference in hdmi teardown (Zabelin Nikita) [Orabug: 38560495] {CVE-2025-40011}
    - nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in a group (Ido Schimmel) [Orabug: 38547971]     {CVE-2025-39980}
    - can: peak_usb: fix shift-out-of-bounds issue (Stephane Grosjean) [Orabug: 38581461] {CVE-2025-40020}
    - cnic: Fix use-after-free bugs in cnic_delete_task (Duoming Zhou) [Orabug: 38503848] {CVE-2025-39945}
    - tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect(). (Kuniyuki Iwashima) [Orabug: 38526387]     {CVE-2025-39955}
    - qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements (Jamie Bainbridge) [Orabug: 38503869]     {CVE-2025-39949}
    - cgroup: split cgroup_destroy_wq into 3 workqueues (Chen Ridong) [Orabug: 38503891] {CVE-2025-39953}
    - mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory (Miaohe Lin) [Orabug:
    38461847] {CVE-2025-39883}
    - dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: Fix DT error handling for num-channels/ees (Stephan Gerhold) [Orabug:
    38494821] {CVE-2025-39923}
    - i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path (Michal Schmidt) [Orabug: 38494786]     {CVE-2025-39911}
    - libceph: fix invalid accesses to ceph_connection_v1_info (Ilya Dryomov) [Orabug: 38461836]     {CVE-2025-39880}
    - ocfs2: fix recursive semaphore deadlock in fiemap call (Mark Tinguely) [Orabug: 38461858]     {CVE-2025-39885}
    - tcp_bpf: Call sk_msg_free() when tcp_bpf_send_verdict() fails to allocate psock->cork. (Kuniyuki     Iwashima) [Orabug: 38494796] {CVE-2025-39913}
    - net: Fix null-ptr-deref by sock_lock_init_class_and_name() and rmmod. (Kuniyuki Iwashima) [Orabug:
    37901603] {CVE-2025-23143}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2025-28048)

high Nessus Plugin ID 278563

Version 1.3

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Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Feb 10, 2026, 11:15 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202602101115
Version 1.2 Dec 13, 2025, 9:05 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202512130905
Version 1.1 Dec 13, 2025, 1:08 AM New Plugin Feed: 202512130108