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Oracle Linux 9 : ELSA-2026-63129-0: / kernel (ELSA-2026-631290)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 344280

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-2026-631290 advisory.

 - locking/rt: Fix the incorrect RCU protection in rt_spin_unlock() (Waiman Long) [RHEL-242684] {CVE-2026-72069}
 - iomap: fix out-of-bounds bitmap_set() with zero-length range (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-240191] {CVE-2026-68145}
 - iomap: hold state_lock over call to ifs_set_range_uptodate() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-240191] {CVE-2026-68145}
 - exfat: fix potential use-after-free in exfat_find_dir_entry() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-231461] {CVE-2026-63808}
 - ipv4: free net->ipv4.sysctl_local_reserved_ports after unregister_net_sysctl_table() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-227266] {CVE-2026-64002}
 - Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: Clear HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT on error (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-223126] {CVE-2026-53073}
 - scsi: target: iscsi: Bound iscsi_encode_text_output() appends to rsp_buf (Maurizio Lombardi) [RHEL-213202] {CVE-2026-63887}
 - nvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-244913] {CVE-2026-72130}
 - smc: Fix use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev(). (Ramesh Chhetri) [RHEL-152651] {CVE-2025-40064}
 - userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-240761] {CVE-2026-68166}
 - NFSv4: include MAY_WRITE in open permission mask for O_TRUNC (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-234043] {CVE-2026-64298}
 - nfsd: release layout stid on setlease failure (Scott Mayhew) [RHEL-227785] {CVE-2026-53399}
 - NFSv4/flexfiles: reject zero filehandle version count (Scott Mayhew) [RHEL-229407] {CVE-2026-53392}
 - NFSv4/pNFS: reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-228038] {CVE-2026-53391}
 - pNFS: Fix use-after-free in pnfs_update_layout() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-226457] {CVE-2026-63800}
 - nfsd: fix posix_acl leak on SETACL decode failure (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-225521] {CVE-2026-53397}
 - crypto: qat - fix VF2PF work teardown race in adf_disable_sriov() (Vladislav Dronov) [RHEL-234488] {CVE-2026-64438}
 - KEYS: fix overflow in keyctl_pkey_params_get_2() (Bruno Meneguele) [RHEL-229627] {CVE-2026-63824}
 - KEYS: fix length validation in keyctl_pkey_params_get_2() (Bruno Meneguele) [RHEL-229627] {CVE-2026-63824}
 - x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection (Waiman Long) [RHEL-230496] {CVE-2026-68480}
 - crypto: qat - validate RSA CRT component lengths (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-234535] {CVE-2026-64304}
 - scsi: target: Fix hexadecimal CHAP_I handling (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-231664] {CVE-2026-63886}
 - scsi: target: iscsi: Validate CHAP_R length before base64 decode (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-231664] {CVE-2026-63886}
 - ALSA: virtio: Validate control metadata from the device (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-230139] {CVE-2026-64490}
 - net: mana: validate rx_req_idx to prevent out-of-bounds array access (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-229228] {CVE-2026-64018}
 - smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in symlink_data() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-229064] {CVE-2026-46185}
 - bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-225285] {CVE-2026-45970}
 - RDMA/siw: bound Read Response placement to the RREAD length (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-219525] {CVE-2026-64268}
 - smb: client: fix query directory replay double-free (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-219152] {CVE-2026-64387}

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-2026-63129-0.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 344280

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-631290.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2026

Updated: 9/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.01

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-2026-53073

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40064, CVE-2025-71147, CVE-2026-45970, CVE-2026-46185, CVE-2026-53073, CVE-2026-53391, CVE-2026-53392, CVE-2026-53397, CVE-2026-53399, CVE-2026-63800, CVE-2026-63808, CVE-2026-63824, CVE-2026-63886, CVE-2026-63887, CVE-2026-64002, CVE-2026-64018, CVE-2026-64268, CVE-2026-64298, CVE-2026-64304, CVE-2026-64387, CVE-2026-64438, CVE-2026-64490, CVE-2026-68145, CVE-2026-68166, CVE-2026-68480, CVE-2026-72069, CVE-2026-72130