The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-20270 advisory.

    - net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer dereference (Dan Carpenter)  [Orabug: 37434242]     {CVE-2024-56660}
    - bnxt_en: Fix aggregation ID mask to prevent oops on 5760X chips (Michael Chan)  [Orabug: 37434220]     {CVE-2024-56656}
    - bnxt_en: Fix receive ring space parameters when XDP is active (Shravya KN)  [Orabug: 37433562]     {CVE-2024-53209}
    - bnxt_en: Adjust logging of firmware messages in case of released token in __hwrm_send() (Aleksandr     Mishin)  [Orabug: 37070333]  {CVE-2024-40919}
    - bnxt_en: Fix possible memory leak in bnxt_rdma_aux_device_init() (Vikas Gupta)  [Orabug: 37070270]     {CVE-2024-35972}
    - bnxt_en: Fix double DMA unmapping for XDP_REDIRECT (Somnath Kotur)  [Orabug: 37070266]  {CVE-2024-44984}
    - nvmet: always initialize cqe.result (Daniel Wagner) [Orabug: 36897348] {CVE-2024-41079}
    - nvmet-auth: complete a request only after freeing the dhchap pointers (Maurizio Lombardi) [Orabug:
    36897348] {CVE-2024-41079}
    - scsi: lpfc: Handle mailbox timeouts in lpfc_get_sfp_info (Justin Tee) [Orabug: 37116505]     {CVE-2024-46842}
    - netdevsim: use cond_resched() in nsim_dev_trap_report_work() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 37264120]     {CVE-2024-50155}
    - nvmet-auth: assign dh_key to NULL after kfree_sensitive (Vitaliy Shevtsov) [Orabug: 37268555]     {CVE-2024-50215}
    - net: usb: lan78xx: Fix double free issue with interrupt buffer allocation (Oleksij Rempel) [Orabug:
    37433573] {CVE-2024-53213}
    - PCI/MSI: Handle lack of irqdomain gracefully (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 37452651] {CVE-2024-56760}

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 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2025-20270)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234320

Version 1.2