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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2026-95370)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 376654

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-2026-95370 advisory.

 - s390/qeth: validate user buffer length in SNMP and ARP query ioctls (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-295101] {CVE-2026-80584}
 - s390/vfio_ccw: Cancel existing workqueues (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-295162] {CVE-2026-80553}
 - s390/zcrypt: Validate length for CCA AES cipher key requests (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-297856] {CVE-2026-68452}
 - s390/zcrypt: Validate length for CCA ECC private key requests (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-297864] {CVE-2026-68451}
 - net/smc: fix UAF in smc_cdc_rx_handler() by pinning the socket (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-298271] {CVE-2026-64541}
 - sunrpc: wait for in-flight TLS handshake callback when cancel loses race (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-283645] {CVE-2026-72221}
 - sunrpc: pin svc_xprt across the asynchronous TLS handshake callback (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-283259] {CVE-2026-72222}
 - fs/resctrl: Fix use-after-free during unmount (Dennis Chen) [RHEL-296700] {CVE-2026-72080}
 - powerpc/pseries: papr-phy-attest - validate cmd.length, plug mem leak (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-295113] {CVE-2026-80571}
 - s390/boot: Avoid IPL parameter append past command line (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-292349] {CVE-2026-98403}
 - s390/boot: Add sized_strscpy() to enable strscpy() usage (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-292349] {CVE-2026-98403}
 - sctp: clear new_transport when removing a peer (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-275363] {CVE-2026-74586}
 - openvswitch: Fix CT limit teardown use-after-free (Timothy Redaelli) [RHEL-263551] {CVE-2026-89488}
 - sctp: validate cookie AUTH state before use (Xin Long) [RHEL-254284] {CVE-2026-74752}
 - sctp: stop processing a packet once its association is deleted (Xin Long) [RHEL-263317] {CVE-2026-89479}
 - sctp: avoid auth_enable sysctl UAF during netns teardown (Xin Long) [RHEL-258776] {CVE-2026-68162}

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-2026-95370.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 376654

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-95370.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2026

Updated: 11/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.8

Percentile: 99.29

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-2026-89479

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-64541, CVE-2026-68162, CVE-2026-68451, CVE-2026-68452, CVE-2026-72080, CVE-2026-72221, CVE-2026-72222, CVE-2026-74586, CVE-2026-74588, CVE-2026-74752, CVE-2026-80553, CVE-2026-80571, CVE-2026-80584, CVE-2026-89479, CVE-2026-89488, CVE-2026-98403