The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5437 advisory.

    - [netdrv] hdlc_ppp: add range checks in ppp_cp_parse_cr() (Guillaume Nault) [1882078] {CVE-2020-25643}
    - [fs] ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split() (Pavel Reichl) [1846164] {CVE-2020-14314}
    - [fs] nfsd: apply umask on fs without ACL support ('J. Bruce Fields') [1870215] {CVE-2020-24394}
    - [fs] nfs: Fix getxattr kernel panic and memory overflow (Benjamin Coddington) [1880893] {CVE-2020-25212}
    - [net] flow_dissector: switch to siphash (Davide Caratti) [1835614] {CVE-2019-18282}
    - [fs] xfs: fix boundary test in xfs_attr_shortform_verify (Eric Sandeen) [1875317] {CVE-2020-14385}

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 : kernel (ELSA-2020-5437)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144333

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 1, 2024, 4:21 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: 202402011621