The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2975 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hardware: bluetooth: BR/EDR encryption key negotiation attacks (KNOB) (CVE-2019-9506)

    * 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):

    * TCP packets are segmented when sent to the VLAN device when coming from VXLAN dev. (BZ#1732810)

    * skb head copy occurs when sending traffic over OVS managed VXLAN tunnel (BZ#1733896)

    * [mlx4] VXLAN over VLAN TCP segmentation (BZ#1734306)

    * use make -jN for modules_install (BZ#1735082)

    * Backport TCP follow-up for small buffers (BZ#1739128)

    * [FJ7.6 Bug]: [REG] kernel: ipc: ipc_free should use kvfree (BZ#1740176)

    * RHEL7.6 - powerpc/pseries: Disable CPU hotplug across migrations / powerpc/rtas: Fix a potential race     between CPU-Offline & Migration (LPM) (BZ#1745437)

    * RHEL7.6 - powerpc/pseries: Fix unitialized timer reset on migration / powerpc/pseries/mobility: Extend     start/stop topology update scope (LPM) (BZ#1745439)

    * RHEL7.5 - ISST-LTE:PVM:Zeppelin :LPM: Failure logs and stack trace seen during LPM (POWER9/P9)     (BZ#1745447)

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.

Detections

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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2019:2975)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129738

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.6

Version 1.9 Nov 7, 2024, 2:42 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070242
Version 1.8 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.6 Apr 19, 2024, 2:11 PM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-9506") Plugin Feed: 202404191411