The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9306 advisory.

    - sctp: delay auto_asconf init until binding the first addr (Xin Long)  [Orabug: 32907967]     {CVE-2021-23133} {CVE-2021-23133}
    - dm ioctl: fix out of bounds array access when no devices (Mikulas Patocka)  [Orabug: 32860491]     {CVE-2021-31916}
    - scsi: target: Fix XCOPY NAA identifier lookup (David Disseldorp)   {CVE-2020-28374}
    - bpf, x86: Validate computation of branch displacements for x86-64 (Piotr Krysiuk)  [Orabug: 32759959]     {CVE-2021-29154}
    - KVM: SVM: avoid infinite loop on NPF from bad address (John Donnelly)  [Orabug: 32759746]     {CVE-2020-36310}

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.

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Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2021-9306)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150778

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.7 Oct 23, 2024, 3:11 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410230311
Version 1.6 Dec 13, 2023, 4:19 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202312131619