The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:26570 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: geneve: Fix use-after-free in geneve_find_dev(). (CVE-2025-21858)

    * kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_mr: Fix use-after-free when updating multicast route stats (CVE-2025-68800)

    * kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of service and memory corruption in RDMA umad (CVE-2026-23243)

    * kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: release flowtable after rcu grace period on error (CVE-2026-23392)

    * kernel: netfilter: ctnetlink: ensure safe access to master conntrack (CVE-2026-43116)

    * kernel: xfs: fix freemap adjustments when adding xattrs to leaf blocks (CVE-2026-43158)

    * kernel: Linux kernel: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions (CVE-2026-46243)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2026:26570)

high Nessus Plugin ID 321486

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Version 1.2 Sep 18, 2026, 2:17 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202609181417
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