The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1530 advisory.

    - [kernel] KEYS: Fix a NULL pointer deref in the user-defined key type (David Howells) [751190]     {CVE-2011-4110}
    - [netdrv] benet: remove bogus 'unlikely' on vlan check (Ivan Vecera) [736429] {CVE-2011-3347}
    - [netdrv] be2net: non-member vlan pkts not received in promiscous mode (Ivan Vecera) [736429]     {CVE-2011-3347}
    - [netdrv] be2net: fix crash receiving non-member VLAN packets (Ivan Vecera) [736429] {CVE-2011-3347}
    - [fs] GFS2: rewrite fallocate code to write blocks directly (Benjamin Marzinski) [750208] {CVE-2011-4098}
    - [net] vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (Andy Gospodarek) [714936] {CVE-2011-3593}
    - [mm] oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness (Frantisek Hrbata) [741207] {CVE-2011-4097}
    - [fs] ext4: fix BUG_ON() in ext4_ext_insert_extent() (Lukas Czerner) [742091] {CVE-2011-3638}
    - [fs] proc: fix oops on invalid /proc/pid/maps access (Johannes Weiner) [746613] {CVE-2011-3637}
    - [kernel] fix taskstats io infoleak (Jerome Marchand) [716848] {CVE-2011-2494}
    - [net] bridge: fix use after free in __br_deliver() (Amerigo Wang) [730756] {CVE-2011-2942}
    - [fs] cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers (Jeff Layton) [692709] {CVE-2011-3363}
    - [tpm] Zero buffer after copying to userspace (Jiri Benc) [732633] {CVE-2011-1161 CVE-2011-1162}
    - [fs] make sessionid permissions in /proc/*/task/* match those in /proc/* (Johannes Weiner) [692039]     {CVE-2011-1020}
    - [netdrv] b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset (RuiRui Yang) [738205]     {CVE-2011-3359}
    - [fs] fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message (RuiRui Yang) [736765] {CVE-2011-3353}
    - [fs] cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext (Jeff Layton) [730354] {CVE-2011-3191}
    - [kernel] perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration (Jiri Benc) [730204] {CVE-2011-2905}
    - [fs] corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops (Jerome Marchand) [695982] {CVE-2011-1577}
    - [x86] perf: Fix Intel fixed counters base initialization (Don Zickus) [736284] {CVE-2011-2521}
    - [net] Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. (Jiri Pirko) [732665]     {CVE-2011-3188}
    - [crypto] Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c (Jiri Pirko) [732665] {CVE-2011-3188}
    - [net] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Jiri Pirko) [723433] {CVE-2011-2699}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-1530)

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