The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4675 advisory.

    - Bluetooth: hidp: fix buffer overflow (Young Xiao)  [Orabug: 29786788]  {CVE-2011-1079} {CVE-2019-11884}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Fix verw usage to use memory operand (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug: 29791037]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2019-11091}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29792064]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2019-11091}
    - x86/speculation/mds: Call VERW on NMI path when returning to user (Patrick Colp)  [Orabug: 29792097]     {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2019-11091}

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 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4675)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125804

Version 1.11