The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4855 advisory.

    - ipv4: ipmr: various fixes and cleanups (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 30183226]  {CVE-2017-18509}
    - scsi: sg: fixup infoleak when using SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE (Hannes Reinecke)  [Orabug: 30393903]     {CVE-2017-14991}
    - usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix NULL pointer deference (Greg Kroah-Hartman)  [Orabug: 30412152]     {CVE-2017-15102}
    - floppy: fix div-by-zero in setup_format_params (Denis Efremov)  [Orabug: 30447845]  {CVE-2019-14284}
    - i2c: core-smbus: prevent stack corruption on read I2C_BLOCK_DATA (Jeremy Compostella)  [Orabug:
    30468843]  {CVE-2017-18551}
    - USB: check usb_get_extra_descriptor for proper size (Mathias Payer)  [Orabug: 30057430]     {CVE-2018-20169}
    - x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto (Michal Hocko)  [Orabug: 30419231]  {CVE-2019-11135}
    - x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 30419231]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - x86/tsx: Add 'auto' option to TSX cmdline parameter (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 30419231]  {CVE-2019-11135}
    - x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 30419231]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 30419231]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - x86/tsx: Add TSX cmdline option with TSX disabled by default (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 30419231]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - x86: Add helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr() (Pawan Gupta)  [Orabug: 30419231]  {CVE-2019-11135}

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-2019-4855)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131209

Version 1.7