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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2026-68570)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 348237

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-2026-68570 advisory.

 - selinux: check connect-related permissions on TCP Fast Open (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-258014] {CVE-2026-72243}
 - wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-246399] {CVE-2026-63869}
 - wifi: cfg80211: advance loop vars in cfg80211_merge_profile() (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-240350] {CVE-2026-64174}
 - wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: fix heap overflow on a short auth frame (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-242723] {CVE-2026-72003}
 - net: qrtr: fix 32-bit integer overflow in qrtr_endpoint_post() (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-244100] {CVE-2026-72298}
 - wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: don't dereference hif_dev after re-arming firmware request (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-241012] {CVE-2026-68363}
 - wifi: iwlwifi: mld: stop TX during firmware restart (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-243302] {CVE-2026-64175}
 - wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix driver-set TX rates on old devices (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-243366] {CVE-2026-64176}
 - net: wwan: t7xx: fix potential skb->frags overflow in RX path (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-245512] {CVE-2026-23172}
 - libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-237156] {CVE-2026-68159}
 - libceph: Amend checking to fix make W=1 build breakage (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-237156] {CVE-2026-68159}
 - xfrm: Fix dev use-after-free in xfrm async resumption (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-232965] {CVE-2026-31663}
 - xfrm: hold dev ref until after transport_finish NF_HOOK (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-232965] {CVE-2026-31663}
 - xfrm: hold device only for the asynchronous decryption (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-232965] {CVE-2026-31663}
 - xfrm: input: hold netns during deferred transport reinjection (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-227508] {CVE-2026-63919}
 - xfrm: fix stale skb->prev after async crypto steals a GSO segment (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-236120] {CVE-2026-68426}
 - xfrm: propagate -EINPROGRESS from validate_xmit_xfrm() (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-236120] {CVE-2026-68426}
 - xfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx() (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-228016] {CVE-2026-53239}
 - ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_changelink(). (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-231753] {CVE-2026-63917}
 - ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_siocdevprivate(). (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-228936] {CVE-2026-63921}
 - dm_early_create: fix freeing used table on dm_resume failure (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-244932] {CVE-2026-72102}
 - ALSA: timer: don't re-enter an instance callback that is still running (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-243028] {CVE-2026-68200}
 - ice: reject out-of-range ptype in ice_parser_profile_init (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-240325] {CVE-2026-68128}
 - RDMA/rxe: Fix a use-after-free problem in rxe_mmap (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-233826] {CVE-2026-64582}
 - RDMA/rxe: Reject unknown opcodes before ICRC processing (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-226877] {CVE-2026-46133}
 - RDMA/rxe: Fix race condition in QP timer handlers (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-226914] {CVE-2026-45910}
 - RDMA/rxe: Validate pad and ICRC before payload_size() in rxe_rcv (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-228182] {CVE-2026-46043}
 - RDMA/rxe: Reject non-8-byte ATOMIC_WRITE payloads (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-226315] {CVE-2026-46114}
 - net: ena: PHC: Fix potential use-after-free in get_timestamp (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-230627] {CVE-2026-52971}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-228693] {CVE-2026-53192}
 - ALSA: seq: Serialize UMP output teardown with event_input (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-227713] {CVE-2026-64029}
 - ALSA: timer: Clear SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD once the close completes (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-227087] {CVE-2026-53193}
 - ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-227087] {CVE-2026-53193}
 - netfilter: conntrack: tcp: do not force CLOSE on invalid-seq RST without direction check (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-226406] {CVE-2026-63913}
 - IB/isert: Reject login PDUs shorter than ISER_HEADERS_LEN (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-191605] {CVE-2026-53176}
 - USB: serial: io_ti: fix heap overflow in build_i2c_fw_hdr() (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-191035] {CVE-2026-53195}

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-2026-68570.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 348237

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-68570.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: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-53196

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: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: 9/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-31663, CVE-2026-45910, CVE-2026-46043, CVE-2026-46114, CVE-2026-46133, CVE-2026-52971, CVE-2026-53176, CVE-2026-53192, CVE-2026-53193, CVE-2026-53196, CVE-2026-53239, CVE-2026-63869, CVE-2026-63913, CVE-2026-63917, CVE-2026-63919, CVE-2026-63921, CVE-2026-64029, CVE-2026-64174, CVE-2026-64175, CVE-2026-64176, CVE-2026-64582, CVE-2026-68128, CVE-2026-68159, CVE-2026-68200, CVE-2026-68363, CVE-2026-68426, CVE-2026-72003, CVE-2026-72102, CVE-2026-72243, CVE-2026-72298