The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-3517 advisory.

    - [virt] KVM: coalesced_mmio: add bounds checking (Bandan Das) [1746804] {CVE-2019-14821}
    - [vhost] vhost: make sure log_num < in_num (Eugenio Perez) [1750882] {CVE-2019-14835}
    - [wireless] mwifiex: fix 802.11n/WPA detection (Jarod Wilson) [1714476] {CVE-2019-3846}
    - [net] Bluetooth: Fix faulty expression for minimum encryption key size check (Gopal Tiwari) [1743076]     {CVE-2019-9506}
    - [net] Bluetooth: Fix regression with minimum encryption key size alignment (Gopal Tiwari) [1743076]     {CVE-2019-9506}
    - [net] Bluetooth: Align minimum encryption key size for LE and BR/EDR connections (Gopal Tiwari)     [1743076] {CVE-2019-9506}
    - [bluetooth] Bluetooth: hci_uart: check for missing tty operations (Gopal Tiwari) [1734239]     {CVE-2019-10207}
    - [documentation] Documentation: Add swapgs description to the Spectre v1 documentation (Josh Poimboeuf)     [1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
    - [documentation] Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre (Josh Poimboeuf)     [1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
    - [x86] x86/speculation/swapgs: Exclude ATOMs from speculation through SWAPGS (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724501]     {CVE-2019-1125}
    - [x86] x86/entry/64: Use JMP instead of JMPQ (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
    - [x86] x86/speculation: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
    - [x86] x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724501]     {CVE-2019-1125}
    - [x86] x86/cpufeatures: Combine word 11 and 12 into a new scattered features word (Josh Poimboeuf)     [1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
    - [x86] x86/cpufeatures: Carve out CQM features retrieval (Josh Poimboeuf) [1724501] {CVE-2019-1125}
    - [net] sunrpc: make visible processing error in bc_svc_process() ('J. Bruce Fields') [1660823]     {CVE-2018-16884}
    - [net] sunrpc: remove unused xpo_prep_reply_hdr callback ('J. Bruce Fields') [1660823] {CVE-2018-16884}
    - [net] sunrpc: remove svc_tcp_bc_class ('J. Bruce Fields') [1660823] {CVE-2018-16884}
    - [net] sunrpc: replace svc_serv->sv_bc_xprt by boolean flag ('J. Bruce Fields') [1660823]     {CVE-2018-16884}

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-2019-3517)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 180632

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Version 1.3 Nov 1, 2024, 11:44 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 Feed: 202411012344
Version 1.2 Oct 23, 2024, 3:11 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410230311
Version 1.1 Sep 8, 2023, 10:12 PM CEA reference Plugin Feed: 202309082212
Version 1.0 Sep 7, 2023, 9:48 PM New Plugin Feed: 202309072148