Oracle Linux 8 : ELSA-2026-67468-0: / kernel (ELSA-2026-674680)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 346252

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2026-674680 advisory.

- EDAC/bluefield: Fix potential integer overflow (Joel Savitz) [RHEL-234337] {CVE-2024-53161}
- scsi: libiscsi_tcp: Bound SCSI Response data segment to the connection buffer (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-254583] {CVE-2026-74556}
- blk-cgroup: fix UAF in __blkcg_rstat_flush() (Jeff Moyer) [RHEL-230276] {CVE-2026-63802}
- dm-verity: fix buffer overflow in FEC calculation (Benjamin Marzinski) [RHEL-244942] {CVE-2026-72098}
- net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-239090] {CVE-2026-68294}
- wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: don't dereference hif_dev after re-arming firmware request (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-237990] {CVE-2026-68363}
- wifi: mac80211: capture fast-RX rate before mesh reuses skb->cb (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-231677] {CVE-2026-64117}
- wifi: mac80211: fix missing RX bitrate update for mesh forwarding path (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-231677] {CVE-2026-64117}
- wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-230705] {CVE-2025-71127}
- wifi: nl80211: reject oversized EMA RNR lists (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-230593] {CVE-2026-53182}
- net: qrtr: fix refcount saturation and potential UAF in qrtr_port_remove (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-229715] {CVE-2026-52947}
- scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Widen FPIN pname walker counter to u32 (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-228708] {CVE-2026-63889}

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-2026-67468-0.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 346252

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-674680.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/16/2026

Updated: 9/16/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.61

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-2025-71127

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:8, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:10:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf

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: 9/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53161, CVE-2025-71127, CVE-2026-43133, CVE-2026-52947, CVE-2026-53182, CVE-2026-63802, CVE-2026-63889, CVE-2026-64117, CVE-2026-68363, CVE-2026-72098, CVE-2026-74556