The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3597 advisory.

    - HID: hid-cypress: validate length of report (Greg Kroah-Hartman)  [Orabug: 25891914]  {CVE-2017-7273}
    - udf: Remove repeated loads blocksize (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 25905722]  {CVE-2015-4167}
    - udf: Check length of extended attributes and allocation descriptors (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 25905722]     {CVE-2015-4167}
    - udf: Verify i_size when loading inode (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 25905722]  {CVE-2015-4167}
    - btrfs: drop unused parameter from btrfs_item_nr (Ross Kirk)  [Orabug: 25948102]  {CVE-2014-9710}
    - Btrfs: cleanup of function where fixup_low_keys() is called (Tsutomu Itoh)  [Orabug: 25948102]     {CVE-2014-9710}
    - Btrfs: remove unused argument of fixup_low_keys() (Tsutomu Itoh)  [Orabug: 25948102]  {CVE-2014-9710}
    - Btrfs: remove unused argument of btrfs_extend_item() (Tsutomu Itoh)  [Orabug: 25948102]  {CVE-2014-9710}
    - Btrfs: add support for asserts (Josef Bacik)  [Orabug: 25948102]  {CVE-2014-9710}
    - Btrfs: make xattr replace operations atomic (Filipe Manana)  [Orabug: 25948102]  {CVE-2014-9710}
    - net: validate the range we feed to iov_iter_init() in sys_sendto/sys_recvfrom (Al Viro)  [Orabug:
    25948149]  {CVE-2015-2686}

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 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3597)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102061

Version 3.13

Version 3.12

Version 3.13 Nov 2, 2024, 2:28 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 Feed: 202411020228
Version 3.12 Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 7.2) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") 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: 202410230000