Oracle Linux 10 : kernel (ELSA-2026-68507)

high Nessus Plugin ID 348157

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-2026-68507 advisory.

- wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: don't dereference hif_dev after re-arming firmware request (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-241004] {CVE-2026-68363}
- wifi: iwlwifi: mld: stop TX during firmware restart (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-243307] {CVE-2026-64175}
- wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix driver-set TX rates on old devices (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-243363] {CVE-2026-64176}
- net: wwan: t7xx: fix potential skb->frags overflow in RX path (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-245528] {CVE-2026-23172}
- wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-246405] {CVE-2026-63869}
- octeontx2-af: cn10k: restrict VF LMTLINE sharing to its own PF (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-231041] {CVE-2026-72045}
- octeontx2-af: validate body pcifunc in rvu_mbox_handler_rep_event_notify (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-231041] {CVE-2026-63923}
- dm_early_create: fix freeing used table on dm_resume failure (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-244953] {CVE-2026-72102}
- net: slip: serialize receive against buffer reallocation (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-241018] {CVE-2026-68143}
- net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-240243] {CVE-2026-68294}
- ice: reject out-of-range ptype in ice_parser_profile_init (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-237211] {CVE-2026-68128}
- ALSA: timer: don't re-enter an instance callback that is still running (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-237201] {CVE-2026-68200}
- netfilter: handle unreadable frags (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-234265] {CVE-2026-64414}
- net: ena: PHC: Fix potential use-after-free in get_timestamp (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-230631] {CVE-2026-52971}
- ALSA: timer: Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-228700] {CVE-2026-53192}
- ALSA: seq: Serialize UMP output teardown with event_input (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-227727] {CVE-2026-64029}
- ALSA: timer: Clear SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD once the close completes (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-227086] {CVE-2026-53193}
- ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-227086] {CVE-2026-53193}
- hwrng: virtio: clamp device-reported used.len at copy_data() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-225748] {CVE-2026-64456}
- IB/isert: Reject login PDUs shorter than ISER_HEADERS_LEN (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-191611] {CVE-2026-53176}

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-2026-68507.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 348157

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-68507.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2026

Updated: 9/18/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.85

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-58007

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-58007, CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-52971, CVE-2026-53176, CVE-2026-53192, CVE-2026-53193, CVE-2026-63869, CVE-2026-63923, CVE-2026-64029, CVE-2026-64175, CVE-2026-64176, CVE-2026-64414, CVE-2026-64456, CVE-2026-68128, CVE-2026-68143, CVE-2026-68200, CVE-2026-68294, CVE-2026-68363, CVE-2026-72102