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Oracle Linux 10 : kernel (ELSA-2026-81406)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 365563

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-2026-81406 advisory.

 - nvmet-auth: Synchronize timeout work during SQ teardown (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-276363] {CVE-2026-89970}
 - thermal: core: Fix thermal zone device registration error path (Dennis Chen) [RHEL-226827] {CVE-2026-43332}
 - bpf: Restrict JIT predictor flush to cBPF (Viktor Malik) [RHEL-273875] {CVE-2026-64508}
 - x86/bugs: Enable IBPB flush on BPF JIT allocation (Viktor Malik) [RHEL-273900] {CVE-2026-64507}
 - bpf: Support for hardening against JIT spraying (Viktor Malik) [RHEL-273875] {CVE-2026-64508}
 - af_unix: Unlink scc_entry in unix_del_edge(). (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-270654] {CVE-2026-80521}
 - openvswitch: fix GSO userspace truncation underflow (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-263802] {CVE-2026-68123}
 - macsec: fix replay protection at XPN lower-PN wrap (Abhishek Rawal) [RHEL-226678] {CVE-2026-63925}
 - cifs: validate DFS referral string offsets (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-261989] {CVE-2026-72318}
 - smb: client: fix double-free in SMB2_ioctl() replay (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-259796] {CVE-2026-64385}
 - KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-252479] {CVE-2026-72289}
 - i2c: stub: Reject I2C block transfers with invalid length (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-232114] {CVE-2026-64191}
 - udp: fix potential use-after-free in tunnel segmentation (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-268127] {CVE-2026-74705}
 - nfsd: defer vfree of compound ops to fix rpc_status UAF (Roberto Bergantinos Corpas) [RHEL-264930] {CVE-2026-89690}
 - svcrdma: Reject inline replies that overflow the pull-up buffer (Roberto Bergantinos Corpas) [RHEL-187745] {CVE-2026-89530}
 - nfsd: fix stale s2s_cp_stateids IDR entry for async COPY (Roberto Bergantinos Corpas) [RHEL-264798] {CVE-2026-89676}
 - nfsd: fix UAF in async copy cancel and shutdown (Roberto Bergantinos Corpas) [RHEL-264749] {CVE-2026-89675}
 - nfsd: initialize copy-notify stateid before publishing it (Roberto Bergantinos Corpas) [RHEL-264168] {CVE-2026-89669}
 - nfsd: revoke copy-notify stateids before dropping their reference (Roberto Bergantinos Corpas) [RHEL-264134] {CVE-2026-89663}
 - NFSD: Fix SECINFO_NO_NAME decode error cleanup (Roberto Bergantinos Corpas) [RHEL-259243] {CVE-2026-53398}
 - SUNRPC: pin upper rpc_clnt across the TLS connect_worker (Roberto Bergantinos Corpas) [RHEL-261492] {CVE-2026-72317}
 - ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev (Vb Vasu) [RHEL-254268] {CVE-2026-74744}
 - ipvlan: Make the addrs_lock be per port (Vb Vasu) [RHEL-246118] {CVE-2026-23103}
 - vsock/virtio: bind uarg before filling zerocopy skb (Jon Maloy) [RHEL-229037] {CVE-2026-63970}
 - vsock/virtio: fix zerocopy completion for multi-skb sends (Jon Maloy) [RHEL-232860] {CVE-2026-53365}
 - vsock/virtio: fix MSG_ZEROCOPY pinned-pages accounting (Jon Maloy) [RHEL-232860] {CVE-2026-53365}
 - KVM: SEV: Use READ_ONCE() when reading entries/indices from PSC buffer (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: Check PSC request indices against the actual size of the buffer (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: Don't explicitly pass PSC buffer to snp_begin_psc() (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: WARN if KVM attempts to setup scratch area with min_len==0 (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: Compute the correct max length of the in-GHCB scratch area (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: Use the size of the PSC header as the minimum size for PSC requests (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: Ignore Port I/O requests of length '0' (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: Reject MMIO requests larger than 8 bytes with GHCB v2+ (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: Ignore MMIO requests of length '0' (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: x86: Consolidate SEV-ES MMIO emulation into a single public API (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: x86: Dedup kvm_sev_es_mmio_{read,write}() (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: x86: Harden SEV-ES MMIO against on-stack use-after-free (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - KVM: SEV: Require in-GHCB scratch area if GHCB v2+ is in use (Rahul Kumar) [RHEL-192289] {CVE-2026-53360}
 - vsock/vmci: fix UAF when peer resets connection during handshake (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-232273] {CVE-2026-64115}

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-2026-81406.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 365563

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-81406.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2026

Updated: 10/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.35

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89970

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-43332, CVE-2026-63925, CVE-2026-64191, CVE-2026-64385, CVE-2026-64507, CVE-2026-64508, CVE-2026-68123, CVE-2026-72289, CVE-2026-72318, CVE-2026-80521, CVE-2026-89970