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Oracle Linux: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Oracle Linux has 230 published vulnerabilities, 3 of them in the last 12 months. 22 are rated critical and 8 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs230
Last 12 months3
Critical22
Actively exploited8

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CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2015-5287High (7.8)5.0%⚠ Active exploitationDec 7, 2015
The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name, as demonstrated…
CVE-2014-0196Medium (5.5)22%⚠ Active exploitationMay 7, 2014
The n_tty_write function in drivers/tty/n_tty.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly manage tty driver access in the "LECHO & !OPOST" case, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory…
CVE-2016-3427Critical (9.8)92%⚠ Active exploitationApr 21, 2016
Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u113, 7u99, and 8u77; Java SE Embedded 8u77; and JRockit R28.3.9 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to JMX.
CVE-2014-3153High (7.8)37%⚠ Active exploitationJun 7, 2014
The futex_requeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not ensure that calls have two different futex addresses, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted FUTEX_REQUEUE…
CVE-2014-6271Critical (9.8)100%⚠ Active exploitationSep 24, 2014
GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted environment, as demonstrated by…
CVE-2014-7169Critical (9.8)100%⚠ Active exploitationSep 25, 2014
GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings after certain malformed function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files or possibly have unknown…
CVE-2016-3715Medium (5.5)75%⚠ Active exploitationMay 5, 2016
The EPHEMERAL coder in ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a crafted image.
CVE-2016-3718Medium (5.5)77%⚠ Active exploitationMay 5, 2016
The (1) HTTP and (2) FTP coders in ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1 allow remote attackers to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks via a crafted image.

Latest vulnerabilities

CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2026-35233Medium (4.4)0.15%—May 1, 2026
An unprivileged attacker can craft a user-space process with a malicious ELF binary containing an out-of-range sh_link field. When root-level dtrace attaches to -- or instruments -- that process (via dtrace -p , pid…
CVE-2026-21996Medium (5.5)0.11%—May 1, 2026
An unprivileged attacker can reliably trigger a crash of the dtrace process with a malicious ELF binary due to an integer Divide-by-Zero in Pbuild_file_symtab()
CVE-2026-21991Medium (5.5)0.18%—Mar 16, 2026
A DTrace component, dtprobed, allows arbitrary file creation through crafted USDT provider names.
CVE-2025-4598Medium (4.7)1.2%—May 30, 2025
A vulnerability was found in systemd-coredump. This flaw allows an attacker to force a SUID process to crash and replace it with a non-SUID binary to access the original's privileged process coredump, allowing the…
CVE-2022-21505Medium (6.7)0.20%—Dec 24, 2024
In the linux kernel, if IMA appraisal is used with the "ima_appraise=log" boot param, lockdown can be defeated with kexec on any machine when Secure Boot is disabled or unavailable. IMA prevents setting…
CVE-2023-22024Medium (5.5)0.18%—Sep 20, 2023
In the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK), the RDS module in UEK has two setsockopt(2) options, RDS_CONN_RESET and RDS6_CONN_RESET, that are not re-entrant. A malicious local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN can use this to…
CVE-2022-21385Medium (6.2)0.36%—Aug 29, 2022
A flaw in net_rds_alloc_sgs() in Oracle Linux kernels allows unprivileged local users to crash the machine. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.2 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVE-2022-21504Medium (5.5)0.25%—Jun 14, 2022
The code in UEK6 U3 was missing an appropiate file descriptor count to be missing. This resulted in a use count error that allowed a file descriptor to a socket to be closed and freed while it was still in use by…
CVE-2022-21499Medium (6.7)0.62%—Jun 9, 2022
KGDB and KDB allow read and write access to kernel memory, and thus should be restricted during lockdown. An attacker with access to a serial port could trigger the debugger so it is important that the debugger respect…
CVE-2021-3551High (7.8)0.19%—Feb 16, 2022
A flaw was found in the PKI-server, where the spkispawn command, when run in debug mode, stores admin credentials in the installation log file. This flaw allows a local attacker to retrieve the file to obtain the admin…
CVE-2021-2464High (7.8)0.33%—Sep 24, 2021
Vulnerability in Oracle Linux (component: OSwatcher). Supported versions that are affected are 7 and 8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Linux…
CVE-2018-17962High (7.5)4.5%—Oct 9, 2018
Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.
CVE-2015-7852Medium (5.9)12%—Aug 7, 2017
ntpq in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted mode 6 response packets.
CVE-2015-7702Medium (6.5)5.2%—Aug 7, 2017
The crypto_xmit function in ntpd in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash). NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for…
CVE-2015-7701High (7.5)6.5%—Aug 7, 2017
Memory leak in the CRYPTO_ASSOC function in ntpd in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
CVE-2015-7692High (7.5)6.5%—Aug 7, 2017
The crypto_xmit function in ntpd in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash). NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for…
CVE-2015-7691High (7.5)7.1%—Aug 7, 2017
The crypto_xmit function in ntpd in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted packets containing particular autokey operations. NOTE: This…
CVE-2015-7703High (7.5)3.8%—Jul 24, 2017
The "pidfile" or "driftfile" directives in NTP ntpd 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77, when ntpd is configured to allow remote configuration, allows remote attackers with an IP address that is allowed to…
CVE-2015-5219High (7.5)5.8%—Jul 21, 2017
The ULOGTOD function in ntp.d in SNTP before 4.2.7p366 does not properly perform type conversions from a precision value to a double, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a…
CVE-2016-1908Critical (9.8)14%—Apr 11, 2017
The client in OpenSSH before 7.2 mishandles failed cookie generation for untrusted X11 forwarding and relies on the local X11 server for access-control decisions, which allows remote X11 clients to trigger a fallback…
CVE-2015-8896Medium (6.5)2.9%—Mar 15, 2017
Integer truncation issue in coders/pict.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.5-0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .pict file.
CVE-2016-2518Medium (5.3)15%—Jan 30, 2017
The MATCH_ASSOC function in NTP before version 4.2.8p9 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause an out-of-bounds reference via an addpeer request with a large hmode value.
CVE-2015-7977Medium (5.9)6.3%—Jan 30, 2017
ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a ntpdc reslist command.
CVE-2016-7039High (7.5)7.6%—Oct 16, 2016
The IP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for large…
CVE-2016-0617Medium (5.5)0.34%—Sep 30, 2016
Unspecified vulnerability in the kernel-uek component in Oracle Linux 6 allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors.
CVE-2016-2776High (7.5)89%—Sep 28, 2016
buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9 before 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P3, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0rc3 does not properly construct responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure…
CVE-2016-7166Medium (5.5)1.6%—Sep 21, 2016
libarchive before 3.2.0 does not limit the number of recursive decompressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted gzip file.
CVE-2016-6250High (8.6)6.3%—Sep 21, 2016
Integer overflow in the ISO9660 writer in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to verifying filename lengths when…
CVE-2016-5844Medium (6.5)4.1%—Sep 21, 2016
Integer overflow in the ISO parser in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ISO file.
CVE-2016-5418High (7.5)4.7%—Sep 21, 2016
The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file.

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