The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4636 advisory.

    - x86/speculation/mds: Make cpu_matches() __cpuinit (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug: 29751729]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2019-11091}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Only worry about firmware loaded microcode (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug: 29641784]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2019-11091}
    - x86/mds: Add empty commit for CVE-2019-11091 (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug: 29721936]  {CVE-2019-11091}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment (Boris Ostrovsky)  [Orabug: 29641784]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29641784]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29641784]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29641784]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Allow runtime checking of CPU features (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug: 29641784]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Improve coverage for MDS vulnerability (Boris Ostrovsky)  [Orabug: 29641784]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29641784]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers() (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29641784]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29641784]  {CVE-2018-12126}     {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Add basic bug infrastructure for MDS (Andi Kleen)  [Orabug: 29641784]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {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-2019-4636)

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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
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