The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12610 advisory.

    - MIPS: Octeon: Add PCIe link status check (Dave Kleikamp)  [Orabug: 36947196] {CVE-2024-40968}
    - drm/amdgpu: Fix signedness bug in sdma_v4_0_process_trap_irq() (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 36898075]     {CVE-2024-41022}
    - net: relax socket state check at accept time. (Paolo Abeni) [Orabug: 36768889] {CVE-2024-36484}
    - nilfs2: fix kernel bug on rename operation of broken directory (Ryusuke Konishi) [Orabug: 36896821]     {CVE-2024-41034}
    - tcp: avoid too many retransmit packets (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 36841816] {CVE-2024-41007}
    - SUNRPC: Fix RPC client cleaned up the freed pipefs dentries (felix) [Orabug: 36940547] {CVE-2023-52803}
    - libceph: fix race between delayed_work() and ceph_monc_stop() (Ilya Dryomov) [Orabug: 36930128]     {CVE-2024-42232}
    - USB: core: Fix duplicate endpoint bug by clearing reserved bits in the descriptor (Alan Stern) [Orabug:
    36896826] {CVE-2024-41035}
    - usb: gadget: configfs: Prevent OOB read/write in usb_string_copy() (Lee Jones) [Orabug: 36930138]     {CVE-2024-42236}
    - udp: Set SOCK_RCU_FREE earlier in udp_lib_get_port(). (Kuniyuki Iwashima) [Orabug: 36896842]     {CVE-2024-41041}
    - ppp: reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed packets (Dmitry Antipov) [Orabug: 36896856]     {CVE-2024-41044}
    - net: ethernet: lantiq_etop: fix double free in detach (Aleksander Jan Bajkowski) [Orabug: 36896863]     {CVE-2024-41046}
    - filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode (Jeff Layton) [Orabug: 36896877]     {CVE-2024-41049}
    - i2c: pnx: Fix potential deadlock warning from del_timer_sync() call in isr (Piotr Wojtaszczyk) [Orabug:
    36897909] {CVE-2024-42153}
    - bnx2x: Fix multiple UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds (Ghadi Elie Rahme) [Orabug: 36897886]     {CVE-2024-42148}
    - drm/nouveau: fix null pointer dereference in nouveau_connector_get_modes (Ma Ke) [Orabug: 36897640]     {CVE-2024-42101}
    - nilfs2: add missing check for inode numbers on directory entries (Ryusuke Konishi) [Orabug: 36897652]     {CVE-2024-42104}
    - nilfs2: fix inode number range checks (Ryusuke Konishi) [Orabug: 36897658] {CVE-2024-42105}
    - inet_diag: Initialize pad field in struct inet_diag_req_v2 (Shigeru Yoshida) [Orabug: 36897666]     {CVE-2024-42106}
    - bonding: Fix out-of-bounds read in bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set() (Sam Sun) [Orabug: 36825248]     {CVE-2024-39487}
    - tcp_metrics: validate source addr length (Jakub Kicinski) [Orabug: 36897915] {CVE-2024-42154}
    - s390/pkey: Wipe sensitive data on failure (Holger Dengler) [Orabug: 36897934] {CVE-2024-42157}
    - jffs2: Fix potential illegal address access in jffs2_free_inode (Wang Yong) [Orabug: 36897696]     {CVE-2024-42115}
    - orangefs: fix out-of-bounds fsid access (Mike Marshall) [Orabug: 36897837] {CVE-2024-42143}
    - media: dvb-frontends: tda10048: Fix integer overflow (Ricardo Ribalda) [Orabug: 36897976]     {CVE-2024-42223}
    - net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Correct check for empty list (Simon Horman) [Orabug: 36897982] {CVE-2024-42224}
    - drm/amd/display: Skip finding free audio for unknown engine_id (Alex Hung) [Orabug: 36897726]     {CVE-2024-42119}
    - scsi: qedf: Make qedf_execute_tmf() non-preemptible (John Meneghini) [Orabug: 36897761] {CVE-2024-42124}
    - IB/core: Implement a limit on UMAD receive List (Michael Guralnik) [Orabug: 36897847] {CVE-2024-42145}
    - drm/lima: fix shared irq handling on driver remove (Erico Nunes) [Orabug: 36897779] {CVE-2024-42127}
    - tcp: Fix data races around icsk->icsk_af_ops. (Kuniyuki Iwashima) [Orabug: 34719866] {CVE-2022-3566}
    - ipv6: Fix data races around sk->sk_prot. (Kuniyuki Iwashima) [Orabug: 34719906] {CVE-2022-3567}
    - ftruncate: pass a signed offset (Arnd Bergmann) [Orabug: 36897558] {CVE-2024-42084}
    - ata: libata-core: Fix double free on error (Niklas Cassel) [Orabug: 36897374] {CVE-2024-41087}
    - drm/nouveau/dispnv04: fix null pointer dereference in nv17_tv_get_hd_modes (Ma Ke) [Orabug: 36897380]     {CVE-2024-41089}
    - drm/nouveau/dispnv04: fix null pointer dereference in nv17_tv_get_ld_modes (Ma Ke) [Orabug: 36897444]     {CVE-2024-41095}
    - net: can: j1939: Initialize unused data in j1939_send_one() (Shigeru Yoshida) [Orabug: 36897516]     {CVE-2024-42076}
    - usb: atm: cxacru: fix endpoint checking in cxacru_bind() (Nikita Zhandarovich) [Orabug: 36897451]     {CVE-2024-41097}
    - iio: chemical: bme680: Fix overflows in compensate() functions (Vasileios Amoiridis) [Orabug: 36897566]     {CVE-2024-42086}
    - x86: stop playing stack games in profile_pc() (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 36897616] {CVE-2024-42096}
    - gpio: davinci: Validate the obtained number of IRQs (Aleksandr Mishin) [Orabug: 36897599]     {CVE-2024-42092}
    - ALSA: emux: improve patch ioctl data validation (Oswald Buddenhagen) [Orabug: 36897624] {CVE-2024-42097}
    - net/dpaa2: Avoid explicit cpumask var allocation on stack (Dawei Li) [Orabug: 36897602] {CVE-2024-42093}
    - net/iucv: Avoid explicit cpumask var allocation on stack (Dawei Li) [Orabug: 36897608] {CVE-2024-42094}
    - drm/panel: ilitek-ili9881c: Fix warning with GPIO controllers that sleep (Laurent Pinchart) [Orabug:
    36897570] {CVE-2024-42087}
    - netfilter: nf_tables: fully validate NFT_DATA_VALUE on store to data registers (Pablo Neira Ayuso)     [Orabug: 36897500] {CVE-2024-42070}
    - ASoC: fsl-asoc-card: set priv->pdev before using it (Elinor Montmasson) [Orabug: 36897578]     {CVE-2024-42089}
    - drm/amdgpu: fix UBSAN warning in kv_dpm.c (Alex Deucher) [Orabug: 36835992] {CVE-2024-40987}
    - pinctrl: fix deadlock in create_pinctrl() when handling -EPROBE_DEFER (Hagar Hemdan) [Orabug: 36897586]     {CVE-2024-42090}
    - drm/radeon: fix UBSAN warning in kv_dpm.c (Alex Deucher) [Orabug: 36835997] {CVE-2024-40988}
    - netfilter: ipset: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() (Jozsef Kadlecsik) [Orabug: 36838634]     {CVE-2024-40993}
    - net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc() (David Ruth) [Orabug: 36836019]     {CVE-2024-40995}
    - netns: Make get_net_ns() handle zero refcount net (Yue Haibing) [Orabug: 36835849] {CVE-2024-40958}
    - xfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 36835852]     {CVE-2024-40959}
    - ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 36835857]     {CVE-2024-40960}
    - ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 36835862] {CVE-2024-40961}
    - netrom: Fix a memory leak in nr_heartbeat_expiry() (Gavrilov Ilia) [Orabug: 36836086] {CVE-2024-41006}
    - mips: bmips: BCM6358: make sure CBR is correctly set (Christian Marangi) [Orabug: 36835870]     {CVE-2024-40963}
    - powerpc/pseries: Enforce hcall result buffer validity and size (Nathan Lynch) [Orabug: 36835926]     {CVE-2024-40974}
    - scsi: qedi: Fix crash while reading debugfs attribute (Manish Rangankar) [Orabug: 36835947]     {CVE-2024-40978}
    - drop_monitor: replace spin_lock by raw_spin_lock (Wander Lairson Costa) [Orabug: 36835960]     {CVE-2024-40980}
    - batman-adv: bypass empty buckets in batadv_purge_orig_ref() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 36835966]     {CVE-2024-40981}
    - usb-storage: alauda: Check whether the media is initialized (Shichao Lai) [Orabug: 36753734]     {CVE-2024-38619}
    - greybus: Fix use-after-free bug in gb_interface_release due to race condition. (Sicong Huang) [Orabug:
    36835564] {CVE-2024-39495}
    - netfilter: nftables: exthdr: fix 4-byte stack OOB write (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 35814445]     {CVE-2023-4881} {CVE-2023-52628}
    - nilfs2: fix potential kernel bug due to lack of writeback flag waiting (Ryusuke Konishi) [Orabug:
    36774571] {CVE-2024-37078}
    - ocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO (Su Yue) [Orabug: 36835817] {CVE-2024-40943}
    - vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in event_deliver() (Hagar Gamal Halim Hemdan)     [Orabug: 36835582] {CVE-2024-39499}
    - drm/exynos/vidi: fix memory leak in .get_modes() (Jani Nikula) [Orabug: 36835786] {CVE-2024-40932}
    - drivers: core: synchronize really_probe() and dev_uevent() (Dirk Behme) [Orabug: 36835589]     {CVE-2024-39501}
    - ionic: fix use after netif_napi_del() (Taehee Yoo) [Orabug: 36835595] {CVE-2024-39502}
    - drm/komeda: check for error-valued pointer (Amjad Ouled-Ameur) [Orabug: 36835674] {CVE-2024-39505}
    - liquidio: Adjust a NULL pointer handling path in lio_vf_rep_copy_packet (Aleksandr Mishin) [Orabug:
    36835677] {CVE-2024-39506}
    - HID: logitech-dj: Fix memory leak in logi_dj_recv_switch_to_dj_mode() (Jose Exposito) [Orabug: 36835793]     {CVE-2024-40934}
    - iommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device() (Lu Baolu) [Orabug: 36835824] {CVE-2024-40945}
    - HID: core: remove unnecessary WARN_ON() in implement() (Nikita Zhandarovich) [Orabug: 36835689]     {CVE-2024-39509}
    - scsi: mpt3sas: Avoid test/set_bit() operating in non-allocated memory (Breno Leitao) [Orabug: 36835696]     {CVE-2024-40901}
    - jfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattr (Greg Kroah-Hartman) [Orabug: 36835701]     {CVE-2024-40902}
    - USB: class: cdc-wdm: Fix CPU lockup caused by excessive log messages (Alan Stern) [Orabug: 36835709]     {CVE-2024-40904}
    - nilfs2: fix nilfs_empty_dir() misjudgment and long loop on I/O errors (Ryusuke Konishi) [Orabug:
    36774647] {CVE-2024-39469}
    - usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix race between aio_cancel() and AIO request complete (Wesley Cheng) [Orabug:
    36683255] {CVE-2024-36894}
    - ipv6: fix possible race in __fib6_drop_pcpu_from() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 36835716] {CVE-2024-40905}
    - net/sched: taprio: always validate TCA_TAPRIO_ATTR_PRIOMAP (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 36748169]     {CVE-2024-36974}
    - net: sched: sch_multiq: fix possible OOB write in multiq_tune() (Hangyu Hua) [Orabug: 36748177]     {CVE-2024-36978}
    - wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't read past the mfuart notifcation (Emmanuel Grumbach) [Orabug: 36835808]     {CVE-2024-40941}
    - wifi: mac80211: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup() (Remi Pommarel) [Orabug: 36835735]     {CVE-2024-40912}

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

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Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2024-12610)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 206999

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Version 1.2 Sep 12, 2024, 10:05 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 metadata Plugin Feed: 202409121005
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