The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5881 advisory.

    - ath9k_htc: release allocated buffer if timed out (Navid Emamdoost)  [Orabug: 31351574]  {CVE-2019-19073}
    - USB: serial: io_ti: fix information leak in completion handler (Johan Hovold)  [Orabug: 31352086]     {CVE-2017-8924}
    - mm/hugetlb: fix a race between hugetlb sysctl handlers (Muchun Song)  [Orabug: 31884244]     {CVE-2020-25285}

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-2020-5881)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141365

Version 1.6