The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5714 advisory.

    - x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list (Josh Poimboeuf)  [Orabug: 31352779]  {CVE-2020-0543}
    - x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation (Mark Gross)  [Orabug: 31352779]     {CVE-2020-0543}
    - x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation (Mark Gross)  [Orabug:
    31352779]  {CVE-2020-0543}
    - x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches() (Mark Gross)  [Orabug: 31352779]  {CVE-2020-0543}
    - x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id (Mark Gross)  [Orabug: 31352779]  {CVE-2020-0543}
    - x86/speculation/spectre_v2: Exclude Zhaoxin CPUs from SPECTRE_V2 (Tony W Wang-oc)  [Orabug: 31352779]     {CVE-2020-0543}
    - USB: core: Fix free-while-in-use bug in the USB S-Glibrary (Alan Stern)  [Orabug: 31350962]     {CVE-2020-12464}
    - mt76: fix array overflow on receiving too many fragments for a packet (Felix Fietkau)  [Orabug:
    31350952]  {CVE-2020-12465}
    - mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_cmd_append_vsie_tlv() (Qing Xu)  [Orabug: 31350929]     {CVE-2020-12653}
    - block, bfq: fix use-after-free in bfq_idle_slice_timer_body (Zhiqiang Liu)  [Orabug: 31350910]     {CVE-2020-12657}
    - xsk: Add missing check on user supplied headroom size (Magnus Karlsson)  [Orabug: 31350732]     {CVE-2020-12659}
    - mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_ret_wmm_get_status() (Qing Xu)  [Orabug: 31350513]     {CVE-2020-12654}
    - KVM: SVM: Fix potential memory leak in svm_cpu_init() (Miaohe Lin)  [Orabug: 31350455]  {CVE-2020-12768}

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 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5714)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137290

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.6 Oct 23, 2024, 10:51 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410232251
Version 1.5 Mar 7, 2024, 3:19 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202403071519