The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5848 advisory.

    - nfsd: apply umask on fs without ACL support (J. Bruce Fields)  [Orabug: 31779884]  {CVE-2020-24394}
    - bcache: fix potential deadlock problem in btree_gc_coalesce (Zhiqiang Liu)  [Orabug: 31350643]     {CVE-2020-12771}
    - selinux: properly handle multiple messages in selinux_netlink_send() (Paul Moore)  [Orabug: 31439365]     {CVE-2020-10751}
    - Revert 'zram: convert remaining CLASS_ATTR() to CLASS_ATTR_RO()' (Wade Mealing)  [Orabug: 31510722]     {CVE-2020-10781}
    - random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity (Willy Tarreau)  [Orabug: 31698078]     {CVE-2020-16166}
    - vgacon: Fix for missing check in scrollback handling (Yunhai Zhang)  [Orabug: 31705117]     {CVE-2020-14331} {CVE-2020-14331}

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-2020-5848)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140588

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.6 Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 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 metadata Plugin Feed: 202410230000
Version 1.5 Feb 20, 2024, 3:54 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: 202402201554