The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4628 advisory.

    - x86/mds: Add empty commit for CVE-2019-11091 (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)  [Orabug: 29721848]     {CVE-2019-11091}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Make mds_mitigation mutable after init (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)  [Orabug: 29721835]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)     [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment (Boris Ostrovsky)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add debugfs for controlling MDS (Kanth Ghatraju)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add boot option to enable MDS protection only while in idle (Boris Ostrovsky)     [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug:
    29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers() (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests (Andi Kleen)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add basic bug infrastructure for MDS (Andi Kleen)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation: Consolidate CPU whitelists (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/msr-index: Cleanup bit defines (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}     file (Will Deacon)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/cpu: Sanitize FAM6_ATOM naming (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - Documentation/l1tf: Fix small spelling typo (Salvatore Bonaccorso)  [Orabug: 29526899]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation: Simplify the CPU bug detection logic (Dominik Brodowski)  [Orabug: 29526899]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}

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-2019-4628)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125113

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