The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9002 advisory.

    - mwifiex: fix possible heap overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() (Ganapathi Bhat)  [Orabug: 30781859]     {CVE-2019-14895} {CVE-2019-14895}
    - ext4: fix ext4_empty_dir() for directories with holes (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 31265320]  {CVE-2019-19037}     {CVE-2019-19037}
    - netlabel: cope with NULL catmap (Paolo Abeni)  [Orabug: 31350493]  {CVE-2020-10711}
    - scsi: mptfusion: Fix double fetch bug in ioctl (Dan Carpenter)  [Orabug: 31350941]  {CVE-2020-12652}
    - scsi: mptfusion: Add bounds check in mptctl_hp_targetinfo() (Dan Carpenter)  [Orabug: 31350941]     {CVE-2020-12652}
    - USB: core: Fix free-while-in-use bug in the USB S-Glibrary (Alan Stern)  [Orabug: 31350967]     {CVE-2020-12464}
    - drivers: usb: core: Minimize irq disabling in usb_sg_cancel() (David Mosberger)  [Orabug: 31350967]     {CVE-2020-12464}
    - drivers: usb: core: Don't disable irqs in usb_sg_wait() during URB submit. (David Mosberger)  [Orabug:
    31350967]  {CVE-2020-12464}
    - ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely (Theodore Ts'o)  [Orabug: 31351014]     {CVE-2019-19447}
    - sched/fair: Don't free p->numa_faults with concurrent readers (Jann Horn)  [Orabug: 32212524]     {CVE-2019-20934}
    - netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: lost .data_len definition for Q.931/ipv6 (Vasily Averin)  [Orabug:
    32222844]  {CVE-2020-14305}
    - perf/core: Fix race in the perf_mmap_close() function (Jiri Olsa)  [Orabug: 32233360]  {CVE-2020-14351}
    - Fonts: Support FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros for built-in fonts (Peilin Ye)  [Orabug: 32176264]     {CVE-2020-28915}
    - fbdev, newport_con: Move FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros into linux/font.h (Peilin Ye)  [Orabug: 32176264]     {CVE-2020-28915}
    - vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY (Daniel Vetter)  [Orabug: 32187749]  {CVE-2020-28974}
    - block: Fix use-after-free in blkdev_get() (Jason Yan)  [Orabug: 32194609]  {CVE-2020-15436}
    - icmp: randomize the global rate limiter (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 32227971]  {CVE-2020-25705}
    - tty: make FONTX ioctl use the tty pointer they were actually passed (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 32122731]     {CVE-2020-25668}

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 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2021-9002)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 144802

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Version 1.9 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 1.8 Jan 30, 2024, 3:19 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") 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") Plugin Feed: 202401301519
Version 1.7 Dec 7, 2022, 4:47 PM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212071647