The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4629 advisory.

    - x86/mds: Add empty commit for CVE-2019-11091 (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)  [Orabug: 29721935]     {CVE-2019-11091}
    - x86/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)     [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment (Boris Ostrovsky)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: update mds_mitigation to reflect debugfs configuration (Mihai Carabas)  [Orabug:
    29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: fix microcode late loading (Mihai Carabas)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {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: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Improve coverage for MDS vulnerability (Boris Ostrovsky)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add debugfs for controlling MDS (Kanth Ghatraju)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers() (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests (Andi Kleen)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add basic bug infrastructure for MDS (Andi Kleen)  [Orabug: 29526900]     {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: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/msr-index: Cleanup bit defines (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - Documentation/l1tf: Fix small spelling typo (Salvatore Bonaccorso)  [Orabug: 29526900]  {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 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4629)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125114

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Version 1.11 Oct 23, 2024, 3:11 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 Plugin Feed: 202410230311
Version 1.10 May 28, 2024, 12:26 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202405281226
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