The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12271 advisory.

    - KVM: x86: Add BHI_NO (Daniel Sneddon)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/bhi: Mitigate KVM by default (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/bhi: Add BHI mitigation knob (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/bhi: Enumerate Branch History Injection (BHI) bug (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/bhi: Define SPEC_CTRL_BHI_DIS_S (Daniel Sneddon)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/bhi: Add support for clearing branch history at syscall entry (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 36384803]     {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/cpufeature: Add missing leaf enumeration (Daniel Sneddon)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - KVM: x86: Use a switch statement and macros in __feature_translate() (Jim Mattson)  [Orabug: 36384803]     {CVE-2024-2201}
    - KVM: x86: Advertise CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=2):EDX[5:0] to userspace (Jim Mattson)  [Orabug: 36384803]     {CVE-2024-2201}
    - KVM: x86: Update KVM-only leaf handling to allow for 100% KVM-only leafs (Sean Christopherson)  [Orabug:
    36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/bugs: Use sysfs_emit() (Borislav Petkov)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc (Lin Yujun)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/speculation: Reorder SRSO and GDS functions (Alexandre Chartre)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - KVM: x86: Mask off unsupported and unknown bits of IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES (Jim Mattson)  [Orabug:
    36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - KVM: x86: Move reverse CPUID helpers to separate header file (Ricardo Koller)  [Orabug: 36384803]     {CVE-2024-2201}
    - KVM: x86: Fix implicit enum conversion goof in scattered reverse CPUID code (Sean Christopherson)     [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - KVM: x86: Add support for reverse CPUID lookup of scattered features (Sean Christopherson)  [Orabug:
    36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - x86/msr: Define new bits in TSX_FORCE_ABORT MSR (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - objtool: Add asm version of STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 36384803]     {CVE-2024-2201}
    - objtool: Only include valid definitions depending on source file type (Julien Thierry)  [Orabug:
    36384803]  {CVE-2024-2201}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: fix pointer math issue in nft_byteorder_eval() (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 36229438]     {CVE-2024-0607}
    - vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset() (Prathu Baronia) [Orabug: 36192400]     {CVE-2024-0340}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: reject QUEUE/DROP verdict parameters (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 36251144]     {CVE-2024-1086}

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-2024-12271)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193126

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Version 1.5 Sep 23, 2024, 7:12 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202409230712
Version 1.4 Sep 22, 2024, 1:40 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2024-0340,CVE-2024-0607,CVE-2024-1086,CVE-2024-2201,CVE-2024-26679") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" changed from "True" to none) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202409220140
Version 1.3 May 31, 2024, 1:01 AM CISA reference Plugin Feed: 202405310101
Version 1.2 May 27, 2024, 10:17 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202405272217
Version 1.1 Apr 10, 2024, 1:52 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202404101352
Version 1.0 Apr 10, 2024, 12:54 AM New Plugin Feed: 202404100054