The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-0825 advisory.

    - lib/iov_iter: initialize 'flags' in new pipe_buffer (Jan Stancek) [2060874 2060875] {CVE-2022-0847}
    - tipc: improve size validations for received domain records (Xin Long) [2048970 2048971] {CVE-2022-0435}
    - selftests: kvm: Check whether SIDA memop fails for normal guests (Thomas Huth) [2050806 2050807]     {CVE-2022-0516}
    - KVM: s390: Return error on SIDA memop on normal guest (Thomas Huth) [2050806 2050807] {CVE-2022-0516}
    - cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set release_agent (Waiman Long) [2052166 2052167] {CVE-2022-0492}
    - drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store (Patrick Talbert) [2044328 2044329] {CVE-2022-0330}
    - drm/vmwgfx: Fix stale file descriptors on failed usercopy (Dave Airlie) [2047601 2047602]     {CVE-2022-22942}
    - vfs: Out-of-bounds write of heap buffer in fs_context.c (Frantisek Hrbata) [2040585 2040586]     {CVE-2022-0185}
    - xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate (Bruno Meneguele) [2034864     2034865] {CVE-2021-4155}
    - af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK (Patrick Talbert) [2031974 2031975] {CVE-2021-0920}

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 : kernel (ELSA-2022-0825)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158794

Version 1.12

Version 1.11

Version 1.10

Version 1.9

Version 1.12 Nov 2, 2024, 2:28 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 Feed: 202411020228
Version 1.11 Oct 23, 2024, 5:25 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 Feed: 202410230525
Version 1.10 Oct 22, 2024, 6:42 PM 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: 202410221842
Version 1.9 Jan 16, 2023, 4:07 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202301161607