The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-10943 advisory.

    - irqchip/gic-v4: Correctly deal with set_affinity on lazily-mapped VPEs (Charles Mirabile) [RHEL-66965]     {CVE-2024-50192}
    - irqchip/gic-v4: Don't allow a VMOVP on a dying VPE (Charles Mirabile) [RHEL-66965] {CVE-2024-50192}
    - blk-rq-qos: fix crash on rq_qos_wait vs. rq_qos_wake_function race (Ming Lei) [RHEL-65158]     {CVE-2024-50082}
    - vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans (Jon Maloy) [RHEL-68025]     {CVE-2024-50264}
    - xfrm: fix one more kernel-infoleak in algo dumping (Sabrina Dubroca) [RHEL-65955] {CVE-2024-50110}
    - netfilter: nf_reject_ipv6: fix potential crash in nf_send_reset6() (Florian Westphal) [RHEL-66862]     {CVE-2024-50256}
    - selinux,smack: don't bypass permissions check in inode_setsecctx hook (Ondrej Mosnacek) [RHEL-66104]     {CVE-2024-46695}
    - arm64: probes: Remove broken LDR (literal) uprobe support (Mark Salter) [RHEL-66042] {CVE-2024-50099}
    - net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO (Davide Caratti) [RHEL-65399]     {CVE-2024-49949}

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 8 : kernel (ELSA-2024-10943)

high Nessus Plugin ID 212696

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