The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-3618 advisory.

    - uio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open (Ricardo Robaina) [RHEL-26232] {CVE-2023-52439}
    - net:emac/emac-mac: Fix a use after free in emac_mac_tx_buf_send (Ken Cox) [RHEL-27316] {CVE-2021-47013}
    - wifi: brcm80211: handle pmk_op allocation failure (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-35150]     {CVE-2024-27048}
    - wifi: rtl8xxxu: add cancel_work_sync() for c2hcmd_work (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-35140]     {CVE-2024-27052}
    - wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: ensure offloading TID queue exists (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-35130]     {CVE-2024-27056}
    - wifi: mt76: mt7921e: fix use-after-free in free_irq() (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-34866]     {CVE-2024-26892}
    - wifi: ath9k: delay all of ath9k_wmi_event_tasklet() until init is complete (Jose Ignacio Tornos     Martinez) [RHEL-34189] {CVE-2024-26897}
    - wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix a crash when we run out of stations (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-31547]     {CVE-2024-26693}
    - wifi: iwlwifi: fix double-free bug (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-31543] {CVE-2024-26694}
    - wifi: ath9k: Fix potential array-index-out-of-bounds read in ath9k_htc_txstatus() (Jose Ignacio Tornos     Martinez) [RHEL-29089] {CVE-2023-52594}
    - wifi: rt2x00: restart beacon queue when hardware reset (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-29093]     {CVE-2023-52595}
    - wifi: iwlwifi: fix a memory corruption (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-28903] {CVE-2024-26610}
    - net/mlx5e: Prevent deadlock while disabling aRFS (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-35041] {CVE-2024-27014}
    - net: usb: fix possible use-after-free in smsc75xx_bind (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-30311]     {CVE-2021-47171}
    - net: usb: fix memory leak in smsc75xx_bind (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-30311] {CVE-2021-47171}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout (Phil Sutter)     [RHEL-30076] {CVE-2024-26643}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: disallow anonymous set with timeout flag (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-30080]     {CVE-2024-26642}
    - md/raid5: fix atomicity violation in raid5_cache_count (Nigel Croxon) [RHEL-27930] {CVE-2024-23307}
    - usb: ulpi: Fix debugfs directory leak (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-33287] {CVE-2024-26919}
    - powerpc/pseries: Fix potential memleak in papr_get_attr() (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-35213]     {CVE-2022-48669}
    - USB: usb-storage: Prevent divide-by-0 error in isd200_ata_command (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-35122]     {CVE-2024-27059}
    - USB: core: Fix deadlock in usb_deauthorize_interface() (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-35002] {CVE-2024-26934}
    - usb: xhci: Add error handling in xhci_map_urb_for_dma (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-34958] {CVE-2024-26964}
    - fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection() (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-35076]     {CVE-2024-26993}
    - xhci: handle isoc Babble and Buffer Overrun events properly (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-31297] {CVE-2024-26659}
    - xhci: process isoc TD properly when there was a transaction error mid TD. (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-31297]     {CVE-2024-26659}
    - USB: core: Fix deadlock in port disable sysfs attribute (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-35006] {CVE-2024-26933}
    - USB: core: Add hub_get() and hub_put() routines (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-35006] {CVE-2024-26933}
    - x86/coco: Disable 32-bit emulation by default on TDX and SEV (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-25087]     {CVE-2024-25744}
    - x86: Make IA32_EMULATION boot time configurable (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-25087] {CVE-2024-25744}
    - x86/entry: Make IA32 syscalls' availability depend on ia32_enabled() (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-25087]     {CVE-2024-25744}
    - x86/elf: Make loading of 32bit processes depend on ia32_enabled() (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-25087]     {CVE-2024-25744}
    - x86/entry: Rename ignore_sysret() (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-25087] {CVE-2024-25744}
    - x86/cpu: Don't write CSTAR MSR on Intel CPUs (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-25087] {CVE-2024-25744}
    - x86: Introduce ia32_enabled() (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [RHEL-25087] {CVE-2024-25744}
    - s390/ptrace: handle setting of fpc register correctly (Tobias Huschle) [RHEL-29106] {CVE-2023-52598}
    - net/smc: fix illegal rmb_desc access in SMC-D connection dump (Tobias Huschle) [RHEL-27746]     {CVE-2024-26615}
    - wifi: mac80211: fix race condition on enabling fast-xmit (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-31664]     {CVE-2024-26779}
    - mtd: require write permissions for locking and badblock ioctls (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-27585]     {CVE-2021-47055}
    - mtd: properly check all write ioctls for permissions (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-27585] {CVE-2021-47055}
    - pid: take a reference when initializing  (Waiman Long) [RHEL-29420] {CVE-2021-47118}
    - i2c: i801: Don't generate an interrupt on bus reset (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-30325] {CVE-2021-47153}
    - RDMA/srpt: Do not register event handler until srpt device is fully setup (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-33224]     {CVE-2024-26872}
    - fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles (Andrey Albershteyn) [RHEL-33186 RHEL-35108]     {CVE-2024-26973}
    - do_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak (Andrey Albershteyn) [RHEL-33186]     {CVE-2024-26901}
    - tty: tty_buffer: Fix the softlockup issue in flush_to_ldisc (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-32590]     {CVE-2021-47185}
    - RDMA/srpt: Support specifying the srpt_service_guid parameter (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-31710] {CVE-2024-26744}
    - RDMA/qedr: Fix qedr_create_user_qp error flow (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-31714] {CVE-2024-26743}
    - hwmon: (coretemp) Fix out-of-bounds memory access (David Arcari) [RHEL-31305] {CVE-2024-26664}
    - net: bridge: use DEV_STATS_INC() (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-27989] {CVE-2023-52578}
    - net: Fix unwanted sign extension in netdev_stats_to_stats64() (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-27989]     {CVE-2023-52578}
    - net: add atomic_long_t to net_device_stats fields (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-27989] {CVE-2023-52578}
    - net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags (Xin Long) [RHEL-29467] {CVE-2023-52610}
    - net: usb: smsc75xx: Fix uninit-value access in __smsc75xx_read_reg (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez)     [RHEL-28015] {CVE-2023-52528     }
    - powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-29118]     {CVE-2023-52607}
    - powerpc/lib: Validate size for vector operations (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-29114] {CVE-2023-52606}
    - usb: hub: Guard against accesses to uninitialized BOS descriptors (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-28986]     {CVE-2023-52477}
    - media: uvcvideo: Fix OOB read (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-27940] {CVE-2023-52565}
    - media: pvrusb2: fix use after free on context disconnection (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-26498] {CVE-2023-52445}
    - i2c: i801: Fix block process call transactions (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-26478] {CVE-2024-26593}
    - media: dvbdev: Fix memory leak in dvb_media_device_free() (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-27254]     {CVE-2020-36777}
    - i2c: Fix a potential use after free (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-26849] {CVE-2019-25162}
    - i2c: validate user data in compat ioctl (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-27022] {CVE-2021-46934}
    - platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix reference leak (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-28030] {CVE-2023-52520}
    - vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset() (Jon Maloy) [RHEL-21505] {CVE-2024-0340}
    - RDMA/siw: Fix connection failure handling (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-28042] {CVE-2023-52513}
    - vt: fix memory overlapping when deleting chars in the buffer (Waiman Long) [RHEL-27778 RHEL-27779]     {CVE-2022-48627}
    - x86/fpu: Stop relying on userspace for info to fault in xsave buffer (Steve Best) [RHEL-26669]     {CVE-2024-26603}
    - mptcp: fix double-free on socket dismantle (Davide Caratti) [RHEL-22773] {CVE-2024-26782}
    - crypto: akcipher - Disable signing and decryption (Herbert Xu) [RHEL-17114] {CVE-2023-6240}
    - crypto: akcipher - default implementations for request callbacks (Herbert Xu) [RHEL-17114]     {CVE-2023-6240}
    - crypto: testmgr - split akcipher tests by a key type (Herbert Xu) [RHEL-17114] {CVE-2023-6240}

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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2024-3618)

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Version 1.3 Nov 2, 2024, 5:10 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: 202411020510
Version 1.2 Sep 9, 2024, 8:42 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2024-25744") Plugin Feed: 202409090842
Version 1.1 Jun 6, 2024, 5:45 PM New Plugin Feed: 202406061745