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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2026-90365)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 372925

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-2026-90365 advisory.

 - netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-280075] {CVE-2026-98320}
 - vfio/pci: clear vdev->msi_perm after freeing it on init failure (Rodolfo Vick) [RHEL-270901] {CVE-2026-89777}
 - md/raid5-ppl: fix use-after-free in ppl_do_flush() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-278089] {CVE-2026-93262}
 - KEYS: encrypted: fix integer overflow of datablob_len (Bruno Meneguele) [RHEL-279504] {CVE-2026-98222}
 - KVM: s390: pci: Reject adapter interrupt forwarding if already enabled (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-277620] {CVE-2026-74515}
 - smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-98174}
 - smb: client: cancel reconnect work in clean_demultiplex_info() (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-98175}
 - smb: client: fix cifsFileInfo reference leak in deferred close (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-97558}
 - smb: client: avoid leaking refcount when cifs_sb_tlink() fails (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-97556}
 - smb: client: avoid leaking refcount in cifs_queue_oplock_break() (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-97557}
 - smb: client: invalidate fscache for fallocate range operations (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-98124}
 - smb: client: fix stale page cache in insert/collapse range (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-98125}
 - smb/client: validate new EOF for zero range (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-98126}
 - smb/client: validate new EOF for insert range (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-98127}
 - cifs: fix loff_t underflow in cifs_remap_file_range() when len == 0 (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-89640}
 - cifs: call pagecache_isize_extended() in cifs_setsize() when extending (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-89642}
 - cifs: clear tcon after cifsFileInfo_put() in cifs_file_set_size() (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-89641}
 - cifs: use cifs_invalidate_cache() in cifs_do_truncate() for O_TRUNC (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-89639}
 - smb/client: flush dirty data before punching a hole (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-93794}
 - smb/client: zero-initialize stack-allocated cifs_open_info_data (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-93801}
 - smb: client: fix races in cifsd thread creation (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-93829}
 - smb: client: fix in-place encryption corruption in SMB2_write() (Paulo Alcantara) [RHEL-257205] {CVE-2026-43362}
 - udp: Deal with race between UDP socket address change and rehash (Jamie Bainbridge) [RHEL-257635] {CVE-2024-57974}
 - smb: client: clear setuid/setgid bit on write with cifsacl/modefromsid/posix extensions (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-271257] {CVE-2026-89638}
 - net/handshake: Drain pending requests at net namespace exit (Xin Long) [RHEL-232134] {CVE-2026-63978}
 - net/handshake: hand off the pinned file reference to accept_doit (Xin Long) [RHEL-230363] {CVE-2026-63979}
 - net/handshake: Take a long-lived file reference at submit (Xin Long) [RHEL-234159] {CVE-2026-64523}
 - fuse: re-lock request before replacing page cache folio (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-226093] {CVE-2026-53388}
 - fuse: release pipe buf after last use (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-226093] {CVE-2026-53388}
 - fuse: fix page stealing (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-226093] {CVE-2026-53388}
 - ipvs: reload ip header after head reallocation (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-263800] {CVE-2026-68476}
 - selinux: avoid sk_socket dereference in selinux_sctp_bind_connect() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-243225] {CVE-2026-72242}
 - usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-258557] {CVE-2026-80824}

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-2026-90365.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 372925

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-90365.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/28/2026

Updated: 10/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.86

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-57974

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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: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: 10/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-57974, CVE-2026-53388, CVE-2026-63978, CVE-2026-63979, CVE-2026-64266, CVE-2026-64523, CVE-2026-68476, CVE-2026-72242, CVE-2026-74515, CVE-2026-80824, CVE-2026-89638, CVE-2026-89777, CVE-2026-93262, CVE-2026-98222, CVE-2026-98320