The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4246 advisory.

    - Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 28459479]  {CVE-2018-13405}
    - ALSA: seq: Make ioctls race-free (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug: 28459730]  {CVE-2018-7566}
    - rds: CVE-2018-7492: Fix NULL pointer dereference in __rds_rdma_map (Hakon Bugge)  [Orabug: 28539910]     {CVE-2018-7492}
    - cdrom: Fix info leak/OOB read in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status (Scott Bauer)  [Orabug: 28664549]     {CVE-2018-16658}
    - ACPICA: acpi: acpica: fix acpi operand cache leak in nseval.c (Seunghun Han)  [Orabug: 28664580]     {CVE-2017-13695}

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 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4246)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180863

Version 1.1