The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-1308 advisory.

    - [net] packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve (Hangbin Liu) [1441171 1441172] {CVE-2017-7308}
    - [net] packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr (Hangbin Liu) [1441171 1441172] {CVE-2017-7308}
    - [net] packet: fix overflow in check for priv area size (Hangbin Liu) [1441171 1441172] {CVE-2017-7308}
    - [fs] ext4: fix fencepost in s_first_meta_bg validation (Lukas Czerner) [1430969 1332503]     {CVE-2016-10208}
    - [fs] ext4: sanity check the block and cluster size at mount time (Lukas Czerner) [1430969 1332503]     {CVE-2016-10208}
    - [fs] ext4: validate s_first_meta_bg at mount time (Lukas Czerner) [1430969 1332503] {CVE-2016-10208}
    - [net] sctp: deny peeloff operation on asocs with threads sleeping on it (Hangbin Liu) [1429496 1429497]     {CVE-2017-5986 CVE-2017-6353}
    - [net] sctp: avoid BUG_ON on sctp_wait_for_sndbuf (Hangbin Liu) [1429496 1429497] {CVE-2017-5986     CVE-2017-6353}
    - [block] fix use-after-free in seq file (Denys Vlasenko) [1418550 1418551] {CVE-2016-7910}
    - [crypto] algif_hash - Only export and import on sockets with data (Herbert Xu) [1394101 1387632]     {CVE-2016-8646}

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 7 : kernel (ELSA-2017-1308)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100507

Version 3.13