The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-4211 advisory.

    - udf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in udf_symlink function (Pavel Reichl) [RHEL-37769] {CVE-2021-47353}
    - net: ti: fix UAF in tlan_remove_one (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-38940] {CVE-2021-47310}
    - ARM: footbridge: fix PCI interrupt mapping (Myron Stowe) [RHEL-26971] {CVE-2021-46909}
    - i40e: Do not use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag for workqueue (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-37454] {CVE-2024-36004}
    - net/mlx5e: Fix mlx5e_priv_init() cleanup flow (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-37424] {CVE-2024-35959}
    - net/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-37420] {CVE-2024-35960}
    - net/mlx5e: fix a potential double-free in fs_any_create_groups (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-37091]     {CVE-2023-52667}
    - net: ena: Fix incorrect descriptor free behavior (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-37428] {CVE-2024-35958}
    - mISDN: hfcpci: Fix use-after-free bug in hfcpci_softirq (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-37763]     {CVE-2021-47356}
    - mISDN: fix possible use-after-free in HFC_cleanup() (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-37763]     {CVE-2021-47356}
    - crypto: qat - Fix ADF_DEV_RESET_SYNC memory leak (Vladis Dronov) [RHEL-35106] {CVE-2024-26974}
    - crypto: qat - resolve race condition during AER recovery (Vladis Dronov) [RHEL-35106] {CVE-2024-26974}
    - mptcp: fix data re-injection from stale subflow (Davide Caratti) [RHEL-33133] {CVE-2024-26826}
    - ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-31730] {CVE-2024-26735}
    - net/bnx2x: Prevent access to a freed page in page_pool (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-14195 RHEL-33243]     {CVE-2024-26859}
    - x86: KVM: SVM: always update the x2avic msr interception (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-15495] {CVE-2023-5090}
    - EDAC/thunderx: Fix possible out-of-bounds string access (Aristeu Rozanski) [RHEL-26573] {CVE-2023-52464}
    - net: qcom/emac: fix UAF in emac_remove (Ken Cox) [RHEL-37834] {CVE-2021-47311}
    - perf/core: Bail out early if the request AUX area is out of bound (Michael Petlan) [RHEL-38268]     {CVE-2023-52835}
    - crypto: pcrypt - Fix hungtask for PADATA_RESET (Herbert Xu) [RHEL-38171] {CVE-2023-52813}
    - drm/amdgpu: fix use-after-free bug (Jocelyn Falempe) [RHEL-31240] {CVE-2024-26656}
    - mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix possible use-after-free during rehash (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-37008]     {CVE-2024-35854}
    - mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix possible use-after-free during activity update (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-37004]     {CVE-2024-35855}
    - mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix memory leak during rehash (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-37012] {CVE-2024-35853}
    - mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix memory leak when canceling rehash work (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-37016]     {CVE-2024-35852}
    - mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix warning during rehash (Ivan Vecera) [RHEL-37480] {CVE-2024-36007}
    - can: peak_pci: peak_pci_remove(): fix UAF (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-38419] {CVE-2021-47456}
    - usbnet: fix error return code in usbnet_probe() (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-38440]     {CVE-2021-47495}
    - usbnet: sanity check for maxpacket (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-38440] {CVE-2021-47495}
    - net/mlx5e: fix a double-free in arfs_create_groups (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-36920] {CVE-2024-35835}
    - can: dev: can_put_echo_skb(): don't crash kernel if can_priv::echo_skb is accessed out of bounds (Jose     Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-38220] {CVE-2023-52878}
    - net: cdc_eem: fix tx fixup skb leak (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-38080] {CVE-2021-47236}
    - net/usb: kalmia: Don't pass act_len in usb_bulk_msg error path (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez)     [RHEL-38113] {CVE-2023-52703}
    - usb: typec: tcpm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in tcpm_pd_svdm() (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-38248]     {CVE-2023-52877}
    - usb: config: fix iteration issue in 'usb_get_bos_descriptor()' (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-38240]     {CVE-2023-52781}
    - gro: fix ownership transfer (Xin Long) [RHEL-37226] {CVE-2024-35890}
    - tipc: fix kernel warning when sending SYN message (Xin Long) [RHEL-38109] {CVE-2023-52700}
    - erspan: make sure erspan_base_hdr is present in skb->head (Xin Long) [RHEL-37230] {CVE-2024-35888}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout (Phil Sutter) [RHEL-38023]     {CVE-2024-27397}
    - crypto: s390/aes - Fix buffer overread in CTR mode (Herbert Xu) [RHEL-37089] {CVE-2023-52669}
    - wifi: iwlwifi: dbg-tlv: ensure NUL termination (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-37026]     {CVE-2024-35845}
    - wifi: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-36916] {CVE-2024-35838}
    - wifi: nl80211: reject iftype change with mesh ID change (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [RHEL-36884]     {CVE-2024-27410}
    - wifi: mac80211: check/clear fast rx for non-4addr sta VLAN changes (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez)     [RHEL-36807] {CVE-2024-35789}
    - Bluetooth: Avoid potential use-after-free in hci_error_reset (David Marlin) [RHEL-31826]     {CVE-2024-26801}
    - tls: disable async encrypt/decrypt (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-26362 RHEL-26409 RHEL-26420] {CVE-2024-26584     CVE-2024-26583 CVE-2024-26585}
    - Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero (Phillip Lougher) [RHEL-35096]     {CVE-2024-26982}
    - ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-27782]     {CVE-2021-47069}
    - ipc/msg.c: update and document memory barriers (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-27782] {CVE-2021-47069}
    - ipc/sem.c: document and update memory barriers (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-27782] {CVE-2021-47069}
    - ipc/mqueue.c: update/document memory barriers (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-27782] {CVE-2021-47069}
    - ipc/mqueue.c: remove duplicated code (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-27782] {CVE-2021-47069}
    - net/mlx5e: Fix operation precedence bug in port timestamping napi_poll context (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-30582]     {CVE-2023-52626}
    - hwrng: core - Fix page fault dead lock on mmap-ed hwrng (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-29485] {CVE-2023-52615}
    - powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_event_init() (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-37058]     {CVE-2023-52686}
    - net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth (Felix Maurer) [RHEL-31814] {CVE-2024-26804}
    - RDMA/mlx5: Fix fortify source warning while accessing Eth segment (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-33162]     {CVE-2024-26907}
    - ovl: fix leaked dentry (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-27306] {CVE-2021-46972}
    - x86/mm: Disallow vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault() (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-33166]     {CVE-2024-26906}
    - x86/mm: Move is_vsyscall_vaddr() into asm/vsyscall.h (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-33166] {CVE-2024-26906}
    - x86/mm/vsyscall: Consider vsyscall page part of user address space (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-33166]     {CVE-2024-26906}
    - x86/mm: Add vsyscall address helper (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-33166] {CVE-2024-26906}
    - mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-31644] {CVE-2024-26759}
    - swap: fix do_swap_page() race with swapoff (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-31644] {CVE-2024-26759}
    - mm/swapfile: use percpu_ref to serialize against concurrent swapoff (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-31644]     {CVE-2024-26759}
    - mm/damon/vaddr-test: fix memory leak in damon_do_test_apply_three_regions() (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-29294]     {CVE-2023-52560}
    - platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Fix oops on rmmod dell_smbios (Prarit Bhargava) [RHEL-27790]     {CVE-2021-47073}
    - Bluetooth: avoid memcmp() out of bounds warning (David Marlin) [RHEL-3017] {CVE-2020-26555}
    - Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix coding style (David Marlin) [RHEL-3017] {CVE-2020-26555}
    - Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix using memcmp when comparing keys (David Marlin) [RHEL-3017] {CVE-2020-26555}
    - Bluetooth: Reject connection with the device which has same BD_ADDR (David Marlin) [RHEL-3017]     {CVE-2020-26555}
    - Bluetooth: hci_event: Ignore NULL link key (David Marlin) [RHEL-3017] {CVE-2020-26555}
    - ppp_async: limit MRU to 64K (Guillaume Nault) [RHEL-31353] {CVE-2024-26675}
    - powerpc/imc-pmu: Add a null pointer check in update_events_in_group() (Mamatha Inamdar) [RHEL-37078]     {CVE-2023-52675}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2024-4211)

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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 Jul 3, 2024, 6:50 AM New Plugin Feed: 202407030650