The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1130 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket (CVE-2017-8824, Important)

    * kernel: v4l2: disabled memory access protection mechanism allowing privilege escalation (CVE-2017-13166,     Important)

    * kernel: Incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation (CVE-2017-9725, Moderate)

    * kernel: Use-after-free in snd_seq_ioctl_create_port() (CVE-2017-15265, Moderate)

    * kernel: Missing namespace check in net/netlink/af_netlink.c allows for network monitors to observe     systemwide activity (CVE-2017-17449, Moderate)

    * kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in tcpmss_mangle_packet function in net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c     (CVE-2017-18017, Moderate)

    * kernel: kvm: Reachable BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ (CVE-2017-1000252, Moderate)

    * kernel: Stack information leak in the EFS element (CVE-2017-1000410, Moderate)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Mohamed Ghannam for reporting CVE-2017-8824; Jan H. Schnherr (Amazon) for     reporting CVE-2017-1000252; and Armis Labs for reporting CVE-2017-1000410.

    Bug Fix(es):

    These updated kernel packages include also numerous bug fixes. Space precludes documenting all of these     bug fixes in this advisory. See the bug fix descriptions in the related Knowledge Article:
    https://access.redhat.com/articles/3411331

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:1130)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109116

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