The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4172 advisory.

    - KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio (Wanpeng Li)  [Orabug: 27951293]  {CVE-2017-17741}     {CVE-2017-17741}
    - 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: 28049790]     {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)  [Orabug: 28082989]  {CVE-2018-10124}
    - bluetooth: Validate socket address length in sco_sock_bind(). (mlevatic)  [Orabug: 28130291]     {CVE-2015-8575}
    - dccp: check sk for closed state in dccp_sendmsg() (Alexey Kodanev)  [Orabug: 28220512]  {CVE-2017-8824}     {CVE-2018-1130}
    - mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. (Chris Salls)  [Orabug: 28242479]     {CVE-2017-7616}

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-2018-4172)

high Nessus Plugin ID 111144

Version 1.12