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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2026-93412)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 375516

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-2026-93412 advisory.

 - ipv4: free inet_opt and ireq_opt after an RCU grace period (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-295635] {CVE-2026-98432}
 - nvmet-auth: fix out-of-bounds write in nvmet_auth_challenge() (Maurizio Lombardi) [RHEL-290719] {CVE-2026-98725}
 - spi: fsl-lpspi: terminate the RX channel on TX prepare failure path (Iker Pedrosa) [RHEL-234297] {CVE-2026-64303}
 - spi: fsl-lpspi: replace dmaengine_terminate_all() with dmaengine_terminate_sync() (Iker Pedrosa) [RHEL-234297] {CVE-2026-64303}
 - xfrm: hold net_device reference under RCU in bundle creation (Abhishek Rawal) [RHEL-277984] {CVE-2026-98364}
 - entry: Fix seccomp bypass after ptrace with TSYNC (Audra Mitchell) [RHEL-271399] {CVE-2026-89603}
 - smb: client: bound dirent name against end of SMB response in cifs_filldir (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-278331] {CVE-2026-93787}
 - sctp: stream: fully roll back denied add-stream state (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-277123] {CVE-2026-52929}
 - tipc: require net admin for TIPCv2 netlink mutators (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-273181] {CVE-2026-74283}
 - Bluetooth: mgmt: fix UAF in pair command cancellation (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-254650] {CVE-2026-74510}
 - ipvs: clear the svc scheduler ptr early on edit (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-225993] {CVE-2026-53270}
 - KVM: arm64: Transfer the hyp stack pages out of the host stage-2 (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-287053] {CVE-2026-98466}
 - mptcp: pm: userspace: fix use-after-free in get_local_id (Prasenjit Mukherjee) [RHEL-236687] {CVE-2026-68169}
 - mptcp: options: reset DSS fields in case of unexpected size (Prasenjit Mukherjee) [RHEL-250609] {CVE-2026-80586}
 - virtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-278131] {CVE-2026-93827}
 - scsi: target: iscsi: Reserve a terminator byte for the login payload (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-285602] {CVE-2026-90011}
 - scsi: target: core: Fix iSCSI ISID use-after-free in REGISTER AND MOVE (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-283505] {CVE-2026-72083}
 - packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths (Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen) [RHEL-244551] {CVE-2026-74582}

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-2026-93412.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 375516

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-93412.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/3/2026

Updated: 11/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

Percentile: 99.72

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-2026-98432

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: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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-52929, CVE-2026-53228, CVE-2026-53270, CVE-2026-64303, CVE-2026-68169, CVE-2026-72083, CVE-2026-74283, CVE-2026-74510, CVE-2026-74582, CVE-2026-80586, CVE-2026-90011, CVE-2026-93787, CVE-2026-93827, CVE-2026-98364, CVE-2026-98432, CVE-2026-98466, CVE-2026-98725