The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4317 advisory.

    - ipv6: tcp: add rcu locking in tcp_v6_send_synack() (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 25059185]  {CVE-2016-3841}
    - ipv6: add complete rcu protection around np->opt (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 25059185]  {CVE-2016-3841}
    - scsi: qla2xxx: Fix an integer overflow in sysfs code (Dan Carpenter)  [Orabug: 28220492]     {CVE-2017-14051}
    - ext4: fail ext4_iget for root directory if unallocated (Theodore Ts'o)  [Orabug: 28220543]     {CVE-2018-1092} {CVE-2018-1092}
    - ALSA: seq: Fix regression by incorrect ioctl_mutex usages (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 29005191]     {CVE-2018-1000004}
    - netfilter: xt_osf: Add missing permission checks (Kevin Cernekee)  [Orabug: 29037833]  {CVE-2017-17450}
    - HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user() (Daniel Rosenberg)  [Orabug: 29128174]  {CVE-2018-9516}

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-2019-4317)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180641

Version 1.1