The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-07211 advisory.

  - The x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier, as used in Citrix XenServer 6.0.2     and earlier and other products; Oracle Solaris 11 and earlier; illumos before r13724; Joyent SmartOS     before 20120614T184600Z; FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p3; NetBSD 6.0 Beta and earlier; Microsoft Windows     Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1; and possibly other operating systems, when running     on an Intel processor, incorrectly uses the sysret path in cases where a certain address is not a     canonical address, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application. NOTE: because     this issue is due to incorrect use of the Intel specification, it should have been split into separate     identifiers; however, there was some value in preserving the original mapping of the multi-codebase     coordinated-disclosure effort to a single identifier. (CVE-2012-0217)

  - Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on older AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a     certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host hang) via     sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different vulnerability than     CVE-2012-0217. (CVE-2012-2934)

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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