The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4270 advisory.

    - scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse (Jann Horn)  [Orabug: 28824731]  {CVE-2017-13168}
    - infiniband: fix a possible use-after-free bug (Cong Wang)  [Orabug: 28774511]  {CVE-2018-14734}
    - x86/speculation: Unconditionally fill RSB on context switch (Alejandro Jimenez)  [Orabug: 28631576]     {CVE-2018-15572}
    - arm64: KVM: Sanitize PSTATE.M when being set from userspace (Marc Zyngier)  [Orabug: 28762424]     {CVE-2018-18021}
    - arm64: KVM: Tighten guest core register access from userspace (Dave Martin)  [Orabug: 28762424]     {CVE-2018-18021}
    - mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 28700955]  {CVE-2018-17182}
    - btrfs: validate type when reading a chunk (Gu Jinxiang)  [Orabug: 28700851]  {CVE-2018-14611}
    - btrfs: Check that each block group has corresponding chunk at mount time (Qu Wenruo)  [Orabug: 28700872]     {CVE-2018-14610}

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 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4270)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118861

Version 1.13

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Version 1.13 Nov 1, 2024, 11:44 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411012344
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