The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2730 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with     extremely high determinism requirements.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning (CVE-2018-9568)

    * kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for     non-members (CVE-2018-13405)

    * kernel: nfs: use-after-free in svc_process_common() (CVE-2018-16884)

    * kernel: nfs: NULL pointer dereference due to an anomalized NFS message sequence (CVE-2018-16871)

    * kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Backport TCP follow-up for small buffers [mrg-r] (BZ#1732110)

    * update the MRG 2.5.z 3.10 realtime-kernel sources (BZ#1734469)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2019:2730)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128854

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.9 Nov 8, 2024, 2:25 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080225
Version 1.8 Jun 3, 2024, 4:41 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406031641
Version 1.7 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425