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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2026-43307)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 329246

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-2026-43307 advisory.

 - net: ipv6: fix NOREF dst use in seg6 and rpl lwtunnels (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-179297] {CVE-2026-46099}
 - fanotify: fix false positive on permission events (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-180073] {CVE-2026-46150}
 - drm: Set old handle to NULL before prime swap in change_handle (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-179886] {CVE-2026-46215}
 - crypto: af_alg - zero initialize memory allocated via sock_kmalloc (Herbert Xu) [RHEL-189943] {CVE-2025-71113}
 - scsi: core: Wake up the error handler when final completions race against each other (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-189975] {CVE-2026-23110}
 - Bluetooth: l2cap: Add missing chan lock in l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-188333] {CVE-2026-53071}

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-2026-43307.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 329246

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-43307.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2026

Updated: 7/23/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-71113

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:8:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists, 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-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-uki-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uki-virt-addons, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uki-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libperf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rtla, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rv

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-71113, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-46150, CVE-2026-46215, CVE-2026-53071