The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4746 advisory.

    - ptrace: Fix ->ptracer_cred handling for PTRACE_TRACEME (Jann Horn)  [Orabug: 30074408]  {CVE-2019-13272}
    - Input: gtco - bounds check collection indent level (Grant Hernandez)  [Orabug: 30074412]     {CVE-2019-13631}
    - x86/speculation: Exclude ATOMs from speculation through SWAPGS (Thomas Gleixner)  [Orabug: 29967570]     {CVE-2019-1125}
    - x86/speculation: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 29967570]     {CVE-2019-1125}
    - x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug:
    29967570]  {CVE-2019-1125}
    - nfsd: COPY and CLONE operations require the saved filehandle to be set (Scott Mayhew)  [Orabug:
    29925432]  {CVE-2018-16871}
    - ext4: zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block (Sriram Rajagopalan)  [Orabug:
    29925498]  {CVE-2019-11833} {CVE-2019-11833}
    - drm/edid: Fix a missing-check bug in drm_load_edid_firmware() (Gen Zhang)  [Orabug: 29925968]     {CVE-2019-12382}
    - ip_sockglue: Fix missing-check bug in ip_ra_control() (Gen Zhang)  [Orabug: 29926004]  {CVE-2019-12381}

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-2019-4746)

high Nessus Plugin ID 127985

Version 1.9