The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0717 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for     non-members (CVE-2018-13405)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg (BZ#1579128)

    * unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000005d in tcp_enter_frto+0x102     (BZ#1585892)

    * qla2xxx: Mask Off Scope bits for Retry delay timer in the driver (BZ#1588133)

    * [PATCH] perf: Fix a race between ring_buffer_detach() and ring_buffer_wakeup() (BZ#1589340)

    * RHEL6.10 - kernel: improve spectre mitigation for s390x (BZ#1625381)

    * kernel panic due to NULL pointer dereference in __wake_up_common through perf_event_wakeup (BZ#1627672)

    * After upgrading from rhel 6.9 to rhel 6.10, files in a cifs share can't be read (BZ#1636484)

    * Retpoline impact on vdso gettimeofday performance (BZ#1638552)

    * [RHEL 6.10] 32-bit kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5 registers the swap of 4k size only (BZ#1670328)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2019:0717)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123963

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.7 Nov 7, 2024, 2:42 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411070242
Version 1.6 Jun 3, 2024, 9:12 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-13405") Plugin Feed: 202406030912