The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12159 advisory.

    - RDMA/irdma: Prevent zero-length STAG registration (Christopher Bednarz) [Orabug: 36155612]     {CVE-2023-25775}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: bail out on mismatching dynset and set expressions (Pablo Neira Ayuso) [Orabug:
    36155544] {CVE-2023-6622}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: remove catchall element in GC sync path (Pablo Neira Ayuso) [Orabug: 36028059]     {CVE-2023-6111}
    - x86/sev: Check for user-space IOIO pointing to kernel space (Joerg Roedel) [Orabug: 35959905]     {CVE-2023-46813}
    - x86/sev: Check IOBM for IOIO exceptions from user-space (Joerg Roedel) [Orabug: 35959905]     {CVE-2023-46813}
    - Bluetooth: Reject connection with the device which has same BD_ADDR (Lee, Chun-Yi) [Orabug: 35959595]     {CVE-2020-26555}
    - ravb: Fix use-after-free issue in ravb_tx_timeout_work() (Yoshihiro Shimoda) [Orabug: 35959875]     {CVE-2023-35827}

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 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2024-12159)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 190580

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Version 1.3 Nov 2, 2024, 7:54 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: 202411020754
Version 1.2 Sep 22, 2024, 3:24 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202409220324
Version 1.1 Feb 15, 2024, 10:12 PM Plugin metadata Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202402152212
Version 1.0 Feb 15, 2024, 7:41 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata New Plugin Feed: 202402151941