The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4041 advisory.

    - KEYS: Remove key_type::match in favour of overriding default by match_preparse (Tim Tianyang Chen)     [Orabug: 25757946]  {CVE-2017-6951}
    - tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead of 0 (Wei Wang)  [Orabug: 26813391]  {CVE-2017-14106}
    - rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't checked in ticket decode (David Howells)  [Orabug:
    26880520]  {CVE-2017-7482} {CVE-2017-7482}
    - USB: serial: console: fix use-after-free after failed setup (Johan Hovold)  [Orabug: 27206839]     {CVE-2017-16525}
    - ALSA: usb-audio: Check out-of-bounds access by corrupted buffer descriptor (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug:
    27206934]  {CVE-2017-16529}
    - USB: fix out-of-bounds in usb_set_configuration (Greg Kroah-Hartman)  [Orabug: 27207243]     {CVE-2017-16531}

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-2018-4041)

high Nessus Plugin ID 107052

Version 3.10