The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4145 advisory.

    - x86/fpu: Make eager FPU default (Mihai Carabas)  [Orabug: 28156175]  {CVE-2018-3665}
    - ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimer_cancel() (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 22876528]  {CVE-2016-2549}
    - ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 22876528]  {CVE-2016-2547}     {CVE-2016-2548}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix double unlink of active_list (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 22876528]  {CVE-2016-2545}
    - ALSA: seq: Fix missing NULL check at remove_events ioctl (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 22876528]     {CVE-2016-2543}
    - ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 22876528]  {CVE-2016-2544}
    - ALSA: usb-audio: avoid freeing umidi object twice (Andrey Konovalov)  [Orabug: 22876528]     {CVE-2016-2384}
    - perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 27947612]     {CVE-2018-1000199}

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-2018-4145)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110585

Version 1.11