The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2165 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with     extremely high determinism requirements.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Buffer over-read in keyring subsystem allows exposing potentially sensitive information to local     attacker (CVE-2017-13305)

    * Kernel: FPU state information leakage via lazy FPU restore (CVE-2018-3665)

    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 Julian Stecklina (Amazon.de), Thomas Prescher (cyberus-technology.de), and     Zdenek Sojka (sysgo.com) for reporting CVE-2018-3665.

    Enhancement(s):

    * The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to version 3.10.0-693.35.1.rt56.623, which provides a number     of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#1579972)

    Users of kernel-rt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

    The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

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 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2018:2165)

high Nessus Plugin ID 111029

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