The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12256 advisory.

    - Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return Predictions (Tom Lendacky)  [Orabug:
    35166671]  {CVE-2022-27672}
    - KVM: x86: Mitigate the cross-thread return address predictions bug (Tom Lendacky)  [Orabug: 35166671]     {CVE-2022-27672}
    - x86/speculation: Identify processors vulnerable to SMT RSB predictions (Tom Lendacky)  [Orabug:
    35166671]  {CVE-2022-27672}
    - drm/amdkfd: Check for null pointer after calling kmemdup (Jiasheng Jiang)  [Orabug: 34951503]     {CVE-2022-3108}
    - KVM: VMX: Execute IBPB on emulated VM-exit when guest has IBRS (Jim Mattson)   {CVE-2022-2196}

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-container (ELSA-2023-12256)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174416

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 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") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410221842
Version 1.0 Apr 18, 2023, 2:05 AM New Plugin Feed: 202304180205