The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9313 advisory.

    - netfilter: nf_tables: initialize registers in nft_do_chain() (Pablo Neira Ayuso)  [Orabug: 34012925]     {CVE-2022-1016}
    - btrfs: unlock newly allocated extent buffer after error (Qu Wenruo)  [Orabug: 33997138]  {CVE-2021-4149}
    - sr9700: sanity check for packet length (Oliver Neukum)  [Orabug: 33962706]  {CVE-2022-26966}
    - lib/timerqueue: Rely on rbtree semantics for next timer (Davidlohr Bueso)  [Orabug: 33406086]     {CVE-2021-20317} {CVE-2021-20317}
    - NFSv4: Handle case where the lookup of a directory fails (Trond Myklebust)  [Orabug: 33958155]     {CVE-2022-24448}
    - x86/speculation: Add knob for eibrs_retpoline_enabled (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug: 33937656]     {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Extend our code to properly support eibrs+lfence and eibrs+retpoline (Patrick Colp)     [Orabug: 33937656]  {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Update link to AMD speculation whitepaper (Kim Phillips)  [Orabug: 33937656]     {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Use generic retpoline by default on AMD (Kim Phillips)  [Orabug: 33937656]     {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting (Josh Poimboeuf)     [Orabug: 33937656]  {CVE-2021-26401}
    - Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 33937656]  {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Add eIBRS + Retpoline options (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 33937656]  {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Rename RETPOLINE_AMD to RETPOLINE_LFENCE (Peter Zijlstra (Intel))  [Orabug: 33937656]     {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Merge one test in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() (Borislav Petkov)  [Orabug:
    33937656]  {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Update ALTERNATIVEs to (more closely) match upstream (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug: 33937656]     {CVE-2021-26401}
    - x86/speculation: Fix bug in retpoline mode on AMD with 'spectre_v2=none' (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug:
    33937656]  {CVE-2021-26401}
    - ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID in SYNACK messages (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 33917057]  {CVE-2020-36516}
    - ipv4: avoid using shared IP generator for connected sockets (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 33917057]     {CVE-2020-36516}
    - lib/iov_iter: initialize 'flags' in new pipe_buffer (Max Kellermann)  [Orabug: 33910800]     {CVE-2022-0847}
    - udf: Restore i_lenAlloc when inode expansion fails (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 33870267]  {CVE-2022-0617}
    - udf: Fix NULL ptr deref when converting from inline format (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 33870267]     {CVE-2022-0617}
    - drm/vmwgfx: Fix stale file descriptors on failed usercopy (Mathias Krause)  [Orabug: 33840433]     {CVE-2022-22942}
    - drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store (Tvrtko Ursulin)  [Orabug: 33835811]     {CVE-2022-0330}
    - hugetlbfs: flush TLBs correctly after huge_pmd_unshare (Nadav Amit)  [Orabug: 33617219]  {CVE-2021-4002}
    - tipc: improve size validations for received domain records (Jon Maloy)  [Orabug: 33850803]     {CVE-2022-0435} {CVE-2022-0435}
    - cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set release_agent (Eric W. Biederman)  [Orabug: 33825688]     {CVE-2022-0492}
    - Linux 4.14.257 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)   {CVE-2021-38199}

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 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2022-9313)

high Nessus Plugin ID 160190

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Version 1.9 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 1.8 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 1.7 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 1.6 Jan 13, 2023, 4:18 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202301131618