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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2026-74133)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 362991

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-2026-74133 advisory.

 - dm-integrity: don't increment hash_offset twice (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-257757] {CVE-2026-72099}
 - net/liquidio: drop cached VF pci_dev LUT (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-244368] {CVE-2026-72329}
 - vmxnet3: fix BUG_ON in vmxnet3_get_hdr_len() for Geneve packets (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-252809] {CVE-2026-68299}
 - RDMA/siw: Reject MPA FPDU length underflow before signed receive math (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-232567] {CVE-2026-64102}
 - net: mana: Fix TOCTOU double-fetch of hwc_msg_id from DMA buffer (Filippo Storniolo) [RHEL-230983] {CVE-2026-64034}
 - arm64: tlb: Flush walk cache when unsharing PMD tables (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-259308] {CVE-2026-63875}
 - perf: Reject exited events as group leaders (Anubhav Shelat) [RHEL-258792] {CVE-2026-74753}
 - perf/core: Detach event groups during remove_on_exec (Anubhav Shelat) [RHEL-250500] {CVE-2026-64556}
 - drm/amdgpu: Fix context pstate override handling (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-236710] {CVE-2026-68273}
 - drm/amdgpu/vcn3: Prevent OOB reads when parsing dec msg (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-225309] {CVE-2026-46230}
 - drm/amdgpu/vcn4: Prevent OOB reads when parsing dec msg (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-225430] {CVE-2026-46199}
 - drm/amdgpu/vcn4: Prevent OOB reads when parsing IB (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-226024] {CVE-2026-46204}
 - fbcon: Set fb_display[i]->mode to NULL when the mode is released (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-230330] {CVE-2025-40323}
 - libceph: bound pg_{temp,upmap,upmap_items} length to CEPH_PG_MAX_SIZE (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-237150] {CVE-2026-68159}
 - libceph: Amend checking to fix make W=1 build breakage (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-237150] {CVE-2026-68159}
 - ext4: fix e4b bitmap inconsistency reports (Lukas Herbolt) [RHEL-225932] {CVE-2026-45942}
 - libceph: Reject monmaps advertising zero monitors (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-237904] {CVE-2026-68155}

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-2026-74133.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 362991

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-74133.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2026

Updated: 10/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.76

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-64102

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-64102, CVE-2026-68299, CVE-2026-72099, CVE-2026-72329