The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5885 advisory.

    - ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split() (Eric Sandeen)  [Orabug: 31895330]     {CVE-2020-14314}
    - mm/hugetlb: fix a race between hugetlb sysctl handlers (Muchun Song)  [Orabug: 31884238]     {CVE-2020-25285}
    - rbd: require global CAP_SYS_ADMIN for mapping and unmapping (Ilya Dryomov)  [Orabug: 31884165]     {CVE-2020-25284}
    - nfs: Fix getxattr kernel panic and memory overflow (Jeffrey Mitchell)  [Orabug: 31872904]     {CVE-2020-25212}
    - net/packet: fix overflow in tpacket_rcv (Or Cohen)  [Orabug: 31866489]  {CVE-2020-14386}     {CVE-2020-14386}
    - lib: Reduce user_access_begin() boundaries in strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() (Christophe Leroy)     [Orabug: 29623005]  {CVE-2018-20669}
    - x86: uaccess: Inhibit speculation past access_ok() in user_access_begin() (Will Deacon)  [Orabug:
    29623005]  {CVE-2018-20669}
    - arch/openrisc: Fix issues with access_ok() (Stafford Horne)  [Orabug: 29623005]  {CVE-2018-20669}
    - Fix 'acccess_ok()' on alpha and SH (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 29623005]  {CVE-2018-20669}
    - make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()' (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 29623005]  {CVE-2018-20669}
    - btrfs: merge btrfs_find_device and find_device (Anand Jain)  [Orabug: 31351744]  {CVE-2019-18885}
    - sctp: implement memory accounting on tx path (Xin Long)  [Orabug: 31351958]  {CVE-2019-3874}
    - Revert 'zram: convert remaining CLASS_ATTR() to CLASS_ATTR_RO()' (Wade Mealing)  [Orabug: 31510723]     {CVE-2020-10781}
    - x86/speculation: Avoid force-disabling IBPB based on STIBP and enhanced IBRS. (Anthony Steinhauser)     [Orabug: 31557803]  {CVE-2020-10767}
    - random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity (Willy Tarreau)  [Orabug: 31698082]     {CVE-2020-16166}
    - vgacon: Fix for missing check in scrollback handling (Yunhai Zhang)  [Orabug: 31705119]     {CVE-2020-14331} {CVE-2020-14331}
    - nfsd: apply umask on fs without ACL support (J. Bruce Fields)  [Orabug: 31779886]  {CVE-2020-24394}

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-2020-5885)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141396

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Version 1.7 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 1.6 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 Feb 15, 2024, 5:03 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: 202402151703
Version 1.4 Feb 15, 2024, 2:29 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202402151429