The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3637 advisory.

    - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve (Andrey Konovalov)  [Orabug: 26143563]  {CVE-2017-7308}
    - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr (Andrey Konovalov)  [Orabug: 26143563]     {CVE-2017-7308}
    - char: lp: fix possible integer overflow in lp_setup() (Willy Tarreau)  [Orabug: 26403941]     {CVE-2017-1000363}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug:
    26403958]  {CVE-2017-1000380}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix race between read and ioctl (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 26403958]  {CVE-2017-1000380}
    - ALSA: timer: fix NULL pointer dereference in read()/ioctl() race (Vegard Nossum)  [Orabug: 26403958]     {CVE-2017-1000380}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 26403958]     {CVE-2017-1000380}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 26403958]  {CVE-2017-1000380}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix race among timer ioctls (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 26403958]  {CVE-2017-1000380}
    - ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt() (Ben Hutchings)  [Orabug: 26403974]     {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: Check ip6_find_1stfragopt() return value properly. (David S. Miller)  [Orabug: 26403974]     {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: Prevent overrun when parsing v6 header options (Craig Gallek)  [Orabug: 26403974]  {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent (WANG Cong)  [Orabug: 26404007]  {CVE-2017-9077}
    - aio: mark AIO pseudo-fs noexec (Jann Horn)  [Orabug: 26643601]  {CVE-2016-10044}
    - vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. (Eric W. Biederman)  [Orabug: 26643601]     {CVE-2016-10044}
    - vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB (Tejun Heo)  [Orabug: 26643601]     {CVE-2016-10044}
    - x86/acpi: Prevent out of bound access caused by broken ACPI tables (Seunghun Han)  [Orabug: 26643652]     {CVE-2017-11473}
    - sctp: do not inherit ipv6_{mc|ac|fl}_list from parent (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 26650889]     {CVE-2017-9075}
    - saa7164: fix double fetch PCIe access condition (Steven Toth)  [Orabug: 26675148]  {CVE-2017-8831}
    - saa7164: fix sparse warnings (Hans Verkuil)  [Orabug: 26675148]  {CVE-2017-8831}
    - saa7164: get rid of warning: no previous prototype (Mauro Carvalho Chehab)  [Orabug: 26675148]     {CVE-2017-8831}
    - timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 26899791]     {CVE-2017-10661}

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-2017-3637)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104371

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Version 3.16 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 3.15 Oct 23, 2024, 3:11 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2017-9077") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410230311