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Oracle Linux 8 : NetworkManager (ELSA-2026-58555)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 339358

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-58555 advisory.

 [1.40.16-21.0.1]
 - Add support for DAD_CONFLICT to nm-dispatcher
 - Drop 777 permissions from Networkmanager-dispatcher drop-in directory [Orabug: 37581862]
 - Add a dropin file to make Networkmanager-dispatcher persistent [Orabug: 36989910]
 - disable MPTCP handling by default [Orabug: 35081472]
 - Fix ignore-carrier logic [Orabug: 34956744]
 - Disable regeneration of the documentation [Orabug: 34712048]
 - add connectivity check via Oracle servers [Orabug: 32051972]
 - Disable the build of NetworkManager-config-connectivity-* subpackage for 8.3
 - Revert 'infiniband: avoid normalizing the p-key when reading from ifcfg'

 [1:1.40.16-21]
 - Fix CVE-2026-10805 (RHEL-191622)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2026-58555.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 339358

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-58555.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2026

Updated: 8/25/2026

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: 4.9

Percentile: 58.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-10805

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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:8, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:10:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-adsl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-bluetooth, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-cloud-setup, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-config-connectivity-oracle, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-config-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-dispatcher-routing-rules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-initscripts-updown, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-libnm-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-libnm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-ovs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-ppp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-team, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-tui, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-wifi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager-wwan, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:networkmanager

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: 8/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-10805