The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5884 advisory.

    - xfs: fix boundary test in xfs_attr_shortform_verify (Eric Sandeen)  [Orabug: 31895365]  {CVE-2020-14385}
    - ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split() (Eric Sandeen)  [Orabug: 31895327]     {CVE-2020-14314}
    - mm/hugetlb: fix a race between hugetlb sysctl handlers (Muchun Song)  [Orabug: 31884234]     {CVE-2020-25285}
    - rbd: require global CAP_SYS_ADMIN for mapping and unmapping (Ilya Dryomov)  [Orabug: 31884154]     {CVE-2020-25284}
    - nfs: Fix getxattr kernel panic and memory overflow (Jeffrey Mitchell)  [Orabug: 31872895]     {CVE-2020-25212}
    - net/packet: fix overflow in tpacket_rcv (Or Cohen)  [Orabug: 31866487]  {CVE-2020-14386}     {CVE-2020-14386}
    - cgroup: Fix sock_cgroup_data on big-endian. (Cong Wang)  [Orabug: 31779795]  {CVE-2020-14356}
    - cgroup: fix cgroup_sk_alloc() for sk_clone_lock() (Cong Wang)  [Orabug: 31779795]  {CVE-2020-14356}

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-2020-5884)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141395

Version 1.6