The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4161 advisory.

    - dccp: check sk for closed state in dccp_sendmsg() (Alexey Kodanev)  [Orabug: 28001529]  {CVE-2017-8824}     {CVE-2018-1130}
    - xfrm: policy: check policy direction value (Vladis Dronov)  [Orabug: 28256487]  {CVE-2017-11600}     {CVE-2017-11600}
    - mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. (Chris Salls)  [Orabug: 28242475]     {CVE-2017-7616}
    - kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info When running kill(72057458746458112,     0) in userspace I hit the following issue. (mridula shastry)  [Orabug: 28078687]  {CVE-2018-10124}
    - sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk() (Alexey Kodanev)  [Orabug: 28240074]     {CVE-2018-5803}
    - netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: add more sanity tests on tcph->doff (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 27896802]     {CVE-2017-18017}
    - kernel/exit.c: avoid undefined behaviour when calling wait4() wait4(-2147483648, 0x20, 0, 0xdd0000)     triggers: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/exit.c:1651:9 (mridula shastry)  [Orabug: 28049778]     {CVE-2018-10087}

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-2018-4161)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110997

Version 1.10