The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-4928 advisory.

    - mlxbf_gige: call request_irq() after NAPI initialized (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-43012 RHEL-37179]     {CVE-2024-35907}
    - mlxbf_gige: stop PHY during open() error paths (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-43012 RHEL-37179] {CVE-2024-35907}
    - mlxbf_gige: stop interface during shutdown (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-41708 RHEL-37244] {CVE-2024-35885}
    - net: amd-xgbe: Fix skb data length underflow (Ken Cox) [RHEL-43796 RHEL-43794] {CVE-2022-48743}
    - nfp: flower: handle acti_netdevs allocation failure (Ken Cox) [RHEL-42852 RHEL-35158] {CVE-2024-27046}
    - block: add check that partition length needs to be aligned with block size (Ming Lei) [RHEL-45501     RHEL-26616] {CVE-2023-52458}
    - icmp: prevent possible NULL dereferences from icmp_build_probe() (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-42974     RHEL-37002] {CVE-2024-35857}
    - net/ipv6: avoid possible UAF in ip6_route_mpath_notify() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-42689 RHEL-33271]     {CVE-2024-26852}
    - epoll: be better about file lifetimes (Pavel Reichl) [RHEL-44091 RHEL-44083] {CVE-2024-38580}
    - scsi: lpfc: Release hbalock before calling lpfc_worker_wake_up() (Dick Kennedy) [RHEL-40659 RHEL-40665     RHEL-24508 RHEL-39793] {CVE-2024-36924}
    - scsi: lpfc: Move NPIV's transport unregistration to after resource clean up (Dick Kennedy) [RHEL-40659     RHEL-40669 RHEL-24508 RHEL-39887] {CVE-2024-36952}
    - bpf: Fix racing between bpf_timer_cancel_and_free and bpf_timer_cancel (Viktor Malik) [RHEL-42640     RHEL-31726] {CVE-2024-26737}
    - can: j1939: j1939_netdev_start(): fix UAF for rx_kref of j1939_priv (Ken Cox) [RHEL-41489 RHEL-38415]     {CVE-2021-47459}
    - dm: call the resume method on internal suspend (Benjamin Marzinski) [RHEL-41838 RHEL-33217]     {CVE-2024-26880}
    - octeontx2-af: Use separate handlers for interrupts (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-42846 RHEL-35170] {CVE-2024-27030}
    - Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero (Abhi Das) [RHEL-42811 RHEL-35098]     {CVE-2024-26982}
    - ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_try_best_found() (Pavel Reichl)     [RHEL-42655 RHEL-31690] {CVE-2024-26773}
    - scsi: libfc: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in fc_lport_ptp_setup() (John Meneghini) [RHEL-42528     RHEL-38200] {CVE-2023-52809}

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 9 : kernel (ELSA-2024-4928)

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