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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2026-59723)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 341070

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-2026-59723 advisory.

 - net: ipv6: clear suppressed fib6 rule result (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-246347] {CVE-2026-74581}
 - i2c: stub: Reject I2C block transfers with invalid length (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-232111] {CVE-2026-64191}
 - Input: synaptics-rmi4 - bound the F3A keymap to the GPIO count (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-231440] {CVE-2026-64277}
 - netfilter: require Ethernet MAC header before using eth_hdr() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-230679] {CVE-2026-53131}
 - Input: synaptics-rmi4 - bound the F30 keymap to the GPIO/LED count (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-230236] {CVE-2026-64276}
 - netfilter: xt_policy: fix strict mode inbound policy matching (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-228843] {CVE-2026-52920}
 - netfilter: ipset: fix race between dump and ip_set_list resize (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-227673] {CVE-2026-64189}
 - netfilter: conntrack_irc: fix possible out-of-bounds read (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-225252] {CVE-2026-53268}
 - ksm: use range-walk function to jump over holes in scan_get_next_rmap_item (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-189901] {CVE-2025-68211}
 - zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-191439] {CVE-2026-53185}
 - ip6_tunnel: use skb_vlan_inet_prepare() in __ip6_tnl_rcv() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-189965] {CVE-2026-23003}
 - netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: don't return non-matching entry on expiry (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-189532] {CVE-2026-43114}

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-2026-59723.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 341070

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-59723.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2026

Updated: 8/27/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.47

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-23003

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68211, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-43114, CVE-2026-52920, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-53131, CVE-2026-53185, CVE-2026-53268, CVE-2026-64189, CVE-2026-64191, CVE-2026-64276, CVE-2026-64277, CVE-2026-74581