The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5715 advisory.

    - x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation (Mark Gross)  [Orabug: 31422209]     {CVE-2020-0543}
    - x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation (Mark Gross)  [Orabug:
    31422209]  {CVE-2020-0543}
    - x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches() (Mark Gross)  [Orabug: 31422209]  {CVE-2020-0543}
    - x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id (Mark Gross)  [Orabug: 31422209]  {CVE-2020-0543}
    - libertas: Fix two buffer overflows at parsing bss descriptor (Wen Huang)  [Orabug: 31351306]     {CVE-2019-14896} {CVE-2019-14897} {CVE-2019-14897}
    - KVM: SVM: Fix potential memory leak in svm_cpu_init() (Miaohe Lin)  [Orabug: 31350457]  {CVE-2020-12768}
    - net/mlx5: prevent memory leak in mlx5_fpga_conn_create_cq (Navid Emamdoost)  [Orabug: 31301340]     {CVE-2019-19045}
    - mdio_bus: Fix use-after-free on device_register fails (YueHaibing)  [Orabug: 31222291]  {CVE-2019-12819}
    - USB: core: Fix races in character device registration and deregistraion (Alan Stern)  [Orabug: 31317666]     {CVE-2019-19537}
    - mwifiex: pcie: Fix memory leak in mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring (Navid Emamdoost)  [Orabug: 31263146]     {CVE-2019-19057}
    - mwifiex: pcie: Fix memory leak in mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf (Navid Emamdoost)  [Orabug: 31246301]     {CVE-2019-19056}
    - media: technisat-usb2: break out of loop at end of buffer (Sean Young)  [Orabug: 31224553]     {CVE-2019-15505}
    - Input: ff-memless - kill timer in destroy() (Oliver Neukum)  [Orabug: 31213690]  {CVE-2019-19524}
    - Input: add safety guards to input_set_keycode() (Dmitry Torokhov)  [Orabug: 31200557]  {CVE-2019-20636}
    - brcmfmac: add subtype check for event handling in data path (Arend van Spriel)  [Orabug: 31234675]     {CVE-2019-9503}
    - iwlwifi: dbg_ini: fix memory leak in alloc_sgtable (Navid Emamdoost)  [Orabug: 31233656]     {CVE-2019-19058}
    - coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping (Andrea Arcangeli)     [Orabug: 31222107]  {CVE-2019-11599}
    - ext4: add more paranoia checking in ext4_expand_extra_isize handling (Theodore Tso)  [Orabug: 31218807]     {CVE-2019-19767}
    - ext4: fix use-after-free race with debug_want_extra_isize (Barret Rhoden)  [Orabug: 31218807]     {CVE-2019-19767}
    - media: xirlink_cit: add missing descriptor sanity checks (Johan Hovold)  [Orabug: 31213766]     {CVE-2020-11668}
    - media: ov519: add missing endpoint sanity checks (Johan Hovold)  [Orabug: 31213757]  {CVE-2020-11608}
    - media: stv06xx: add missing descriptor sanity checks (Johan Hovold)  [Orabug: 31200578]     {CVE-2020-11609}
    - net/flow_dissector: switch to siphash (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 30872863]  {CVE-2019-18282}
    - brcmfmac: assure SSID length from firmware is limited (Arend van Spriel)  [Orabug: 30872843]     {CVE-2019-9500}

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-2020-5715)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 137291

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Version 1.6 Nov 2, 2024, 2:28 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411020228
Version 1.5 Oct 23, 2024, 10:51 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2019-9500,CVE-2019-9503,CVE-2019-11599,CVE-2019-12819,CVE-2019-14896,CVE-2019-14897,CVE-2019-15505,CVE-2019-18282,CVE-2019-19045,CVE-2019-19056,CVE-2019-19057,CVE-2019-19058,CVE-2019-19524,CVE-2019-19537,CVE-2019-19767,CVE-2019-20636,CVE-2020-0543,CVE-2020-11609,CVE-2020-11668,CVE-2020-12768") 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