The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4040 advisory.

    - gre: fix a possible skb leak (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 26403972]  {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: Fix leak in ipv6_gso_segment(). (David S. Miller)  [Orabug: 26403972]  {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt() (Ben Hutchings)  [Orabug: 26403972]     {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: Check ip6_find_1stfragopt() return value properly. (David S. Miller)  [Orabug: 26403972]     {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: Prevent overrun when parsing v6 header options (Craig Gallek)  [Orabug: 26403972]  {CVE-2017-9074}
    - tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead of 0 (Wei Wang)  [Orabug: 26813390]  {CVE-2017-14106}
    - rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't checked in ticket decode (David Howells)  [Orabug:
    26880517]  {CVE-2017-7482} {CVE-2017-7482}
    - USB: serial: console: fix use-after-free after failed setup (Johan Hovold)  [Orabug: 27206837]     {CVE-2017-16525}
    - uwb: properly check kthread_run return value (Andrey Konovalov)  [Orabug: 27206897]  {CVE-2017-16526}
    - ALSA: usb-audio: Check out-of-bounds access by corrupted buffer descriptor (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug:
    27206928]  {CVE-2017-16529}
    - USB: fix out-of-bounds in usb_set_configuration (Greg Kroah-Hartman)  [Orabug: 27207240]     {CVE-2017-16531}
    - USB: core: fix out-of-bounds access bug in usb_get_bos_descriptor() (Alan Stern)  [Orabug: 27207983]     {CVE-2017-16535}

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 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4040)

high Nessus Plugin ID 107051

Version 3.10