The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-3027 advisory.

    [4:20210216-1.20210608.0.1]
    - add support for UEK6 kernels
    - enable early update for 06-4f-01
    - remove no longer appropriate caveats for 06-2d-07 and 06-55-04
    - enable early and late load on RHCK

    [4:20210216-1.20210608.1]
    - Update Intel CPU microcode to microcode-20210608 release:
      - Fixes in releasenote.md file.

    [4:20210216-1.20210525.2]
    - Make intel-06-2d-07, intel-06-4e-03, intel-06-4f-01, intel-06-55-04,       intel-06-5e-03, intel-06-8c-01, intel-06-8e-9e-0x-0xca,       and intel-06-8e-9e-0x-dell caveats dependent on intel caveat.
    - Enable 06-8c-01 microcode update by default (#1972328).
    - Enable 06-5e-03 microcode update by default (#1972325).

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 8 : microcode_ctl (ELSA-2021-3027)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152365

Version 1.3