The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/efistub: Use 1:1 file:memory     mapping for PE/COFF .compat section The .compat section is a dummy PE section that contains the address of     the 32-bit entrypoint of the 64-bit kernel image if it is bootable from 32-bit firmware (i.e.,     CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y) This section is only 8 bytes in size and is only referenced from the loader, and so it     is placed at the end of the memory view of the image, to avoid the need for padding it to 4k, which is     required for sections appearing in the middle of the image. Unfortunately, this violates the PE/COFF spec,     and even if most EFI loaders will work correctly (including the Tianocore reference implementation), PE     loaders do exist that reject such images, on the basis that both the file and memory views of the file     contents should be described by the section headers in a monotonically increasing manner without leaving     any gaps. So reorganize the sections to avoid this issue. This results in a slight padding overhead (< 4k)     which can be avoided if desired by disabling CONFIG_EFI_MIXED (which is only needed in rare cases these     days) (CVE-2024-26678)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-9315 advisory.

    - memcg: protect concurrent access to mem_cgroup_idr (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-56254] {CVE-2024-43892}
    - bnxt_en: Fix double DMA unmapping for XDP_REDIRECT (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-57259] {CVE-2024-44984}
    - dma: fix call order in dmam_free_coherent (Eder Zulian) [RHEL-54751] {CVE-2024-43856}
    - dmaengine: idxd: Avoid unnecessary destruction of file_ida (Jerry Snitselaar) [RHEL-44508]     {CVE-2024-38629}
    - tipc: Return non-zero value from tipc_udp_addr2str() on error (Xin Long) [RHEL-55074] {CVE-2024-42284}
    - net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix invalid WQ linked list unlink (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-57119] {CVE-2024-44970}
    - net/mlx5e: Fix CT entry update leaks of modify header context (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-55628]     {CVE-2024-43864}
    - net/mlx5: Always drain health in shutdown callback (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-55616] {CVE-2024-43866}
    - net/mlx5: Fix missing lock on sync reset reload (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-55121] {CVE-2024-42268}
    - ionic: fix kernel panic in XDP_TX action (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-47730] {CVE-2024-40907}
    - r8169: Fix possible ring buffer corruption on fragmented Tx packets. (Izabela Bakollari) [RHEL-44037]     {CVE-2024-38586}
    - KVM: s390: fix validity interception issue when gisa is switched off (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-57197]     {CVE-2024-45005}
    - wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he() (Jose Ignacio Tornos     Martinez) [RHEL-55579] {CVE-2024-43879}
    - wifi: mac80211: fix NULL dereference at band check in starting tx ba session (Jose Ignacio Tornos     Martinez) [RHEL-56191] {CVE-2024-43911}
    - wifi: rtw89: Fix array index mistake in rtw89_sta_info_get_iter() (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez)     [RHEL-54805] {CVE-2024-43842}
    - gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush (Andrew Price) [RHEL-51559] {CVE-2024-42079}
    - x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_pgtable() alignment assumption (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-57170] {CVE-2024-44965}
    - bnxt_en: Adjust logging of firmware messages in case of released token in __hwrm_send() (CKI Backport     Bot) [RHEL-47822] {CVE-2024-40919}
    - netfilter: tproxy: bail out if IP has been disabled on the device (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-44369]     {CVE-2024-36270}

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
228005	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-26678	Nessus	Misc.	3/5/2025	9/5/2025	medium
211575	Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2024-9315)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/19/2024	9/22/2025	high
210815	RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2024:9315)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/12/2024	10/28/2025	high
239060	TencentOS Server 4: kernel (TSSA-2024:0958)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	6/16/2025	11/23/2025	high

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