The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9479 advisory.

    - perf: Fix sys_perf_event_open() race against self (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 34211086]  {CVE-2022-1729}
    - debug: Lock down kgdb (Stephen Brennan)  [Orabug: 34211075]  {CVE-2022-21499}
    - io_uring: always use original task when preparing req identity (Jens Axboe)  [Orabug: 34211070]     {CVE-2022-1786}
    - ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent prealloc proc writes (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 34007905]     {CVE-2022-1048}
    - ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent prepare and hw_params/hw_free calls (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug:
    34007905]  {CVE-2022-1048}
    - ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent read/write and buffer changes (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 34007905]     {CVE-2022-1048}
    - ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent hw_params and hw_free calls (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 34007905]     {CVE-2022-1048}
    - KVM: x86: avoid calling x86 emulator without a decoded instruction (Sean Christopherson)  [Orabug:
    34205799]  {CVE-2022-1852} {CVE-2022-1852}
    - af_key: add __GFP_ZERO flag for compose_sadb_supported in function pfkey_register (Haimin Zhang)     [Orabug: 34135343]  {CVE-2022-1353}
    - xen/netfront: react properly to failing gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref() (Juergen Gross)     {CVE-2022-23042}
    - xen/gnttab: fix gnttab_end_foreign_access() without page specified (Juergen Gross)   {CVE-2022-23041}
    - xen/pvcalls: use alloc/free_pages_exact() (Juergen Gross)   {CVE-2022-23041}
    - xen/9p: use alloc/free_pages_exact() (Juergen Gross)   {CVE-2022-23041}
    - xen/gntalloc: don't use gnttab_query_foreign_access() (Juergen Gross)   {CVE-2022-23039}
    - xen/scsifront: don't use gnttab_query_foreign_access() for mapped status (Juergen Gross)     {CVE-2022-23038}
    - xen/netfront: don't use gnttab_query_foreign_access() for mapped status (Juergen Gross)     {CVE-2022-23037}
    - xen/blkfront: don't use gnttab_query_foreign_access() for mapped status (Juergen Gross)     {CVE-2022-23036}
    - xen/grant-table: add gnttab_try_end_foreign_access() (Juergen Gross)   {CVE-2022-23036} {CVE-2022-23038}
    - xen/xenbus: don't let xenbus_grant_ring() remove grants in error case (Juergen Gross)   {CVE-2022-23040}

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-2022-9479)

high Nessus Plugin ID 162213

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Version 1.5 Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 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: 202410230000
Version 1.4 Oct 22, 2024, 6:42 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410221842
Version 1.3 Oct 20, 2023, 5:46 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") 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") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2021-4197") Plugin Feed: 202310201746
Version 1.2 Oct 20, 2023, 3:51 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2021-4197") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202310201551