The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1318 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * Kernel: KVM: error in exception handling leads to wrong debug stack value (CVE-2018-1087)

    * Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS (CVE-2018-8897)

    * Kernel: ipsec: xfrm: use-after-free leading to potential privilege escalation (CVE-2017-16939)

    * kernel: Out-of-bounds write via userland offsets in ebt_entry struct in netfilter/ebtables.c     (CVE-2018-1068)

    * kernel: ptrace() incorrect error handling leads to corruption and DoS (CVE-2018-1000199)

    * kernel: guest kernel crash during core dump on POWER9 host (CVE-2018-1091)

    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 Andy Lutomirski for reporting CVE-2018-1087 and CVE-2018-1000199 and Nick     Peterson (Everdox Tech LLC) and Andy Lutomirski for reporting CVE-2018-8897.

    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/3431641

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-2018:1318)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109633

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Version 1.16 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM 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 Reference Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.15 Oct 11, 2024, 7:17 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-8897") Plugin Feed: 202410110717