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Oracle Linux 10 : kernel (ELSA-2026-45114)

high Nessus Plugin ID 331297

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2026-45114 advisory.

 - futex: Drop CLONE_THREAD requirement for private default hash alloc (Audra Mitchell) [RHEL-193518] {CVE-2026-52973}
 - net: ipv6: fix NOREF dst use in seg6 and rpl lwtunnels (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-179299] {CVE-2026-46099}
 - scsi: core: Wake up the error handler when final completions race against each other (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-189651] {CVE-2026-23110}
 - dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to region_count overflow (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-188547] {CVE-2026-53059}
 - rtnetlink: add missing netlink_ns_capable() check for peer netns (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-172537] {CVE-2026-31692}
 - rtnetlink: Try the outer netns attribute in rtnl_get_peer_net(). (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-172537] {CVE-2026-31692}
 - rtnetlink: fix double call of rtnl_link_get_net_ifla() (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-172537] {CVE-2026-31692}
 - netkit: Set IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_INFO to netkit_link_ops.peer_type. (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-172537] {CVE-2026-31692}
 - vxcan: Set VXCAN_INFO_PEER to vxcan_link_ops.peer_type. (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-172537] {CVE-2026-31692}
 - veth: Set VETH_INFO_PEER to veth_link_ops.peer_type. (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-172537] {CVE-2026-31692}
 - rtnetlink: Add peer_type in struct rtnl_link_ops. (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-172537] {CVE-2026-31692}
 - fs/notify: call exportfs_encode_fid with s_umount (Jay Shin) [RHEL-169188] {CVE-2025-40237}

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-2026-45114.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 331297

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-45114.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/30/2026

Updated: 7/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.44

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-53059

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:10, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:10:2: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-matched, 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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40237, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-31692, CVE-2026-46099, CVE-2026-52973, CVE-2026-53059