The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4164 advisory.

    - dm: fix race between dm_get_from_kobject() and __dm_destroy() (Hou Tao)   {CVE-2017-18203}
    - drm: udl: Properly check framebuffer mmap offsets (Greg Kroah-Hartman)  [Orabug: 27986407]     {CVE-2018-8781}
    - 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: 27875488]     {CVE-2018-10087}
    - kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info When running kill(72057458746458112,     0) in userspace I hit the following issue. (mridula shastry)   {CVE-2018-10124}
    - bluetooth: Validate socket address length in sco_sock_bind(). (mlevatic)  [Orabug: 28130293]     {CVE-2015-8575}
    - dccp: check sk for closed state in dccp_sendmsg() (Alexey Kodanev)  [Orabug: 28220402]  {CVE-2017-8824}     {CVE-2018-1130}
    - sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk() (Alexey Kodanev)  [Orabug: 28240075]     {CVE-2018-5803}
    - mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. (Chris Salls)  [Orabug: 28242478]     {CVE-2017-7616}
    - xfrm: policy: check policy direction value (Vladis Dronov)  [Orabug: 28264121]  {CVE-2017-11600}     {CVE-2017-11600}
    - x86/fpu: Make eager FPU default (Mihai Carabas)  [Orabug: 28156176]  {CVE-2018-3665}
    - KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio (Wanpeng Li)  [Orabug: 27951287]  {CVE-2017-17741}     {CVE-2017-17741}
    - xfs: set format back to extents if xfs_bmap_extents_to_btree (Eric Sandeen)  [Orabug: 27989498]     {CVE-2018-10323}
    - Bluetooth: Prevent stack info leak from the EFS element. (Ben Seri)  [Orabug: 28030520]     {CVE-2017-1000410} {CVE-2017-1000410}
    - ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimer_cancel() (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 28058229]  {CVE-2016-2549}
    - ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 28058229]  {CVE-2016-2547}     {CVE-2016-2548}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix double unlink of active_list (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 28058229]  {CVE-2016-2545}
    - ALSA: seq: Fix missing NULL check at remove_events ioctl (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 28058229]     {CVE-2016-2543}
    - ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 28058229]  {CVE-2016-2544}
    - ALSA: usb-audio: avoid freeing umidi object twice (Andrey Konovalov)  [Orabug: 28058229]     {CVE-2016-2384}
    - perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 27947608]     {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 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4164)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110998

Version 1.11