The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-10611 advisory.

  - The epoll_ctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle     ELOOP errors in EPOLL_CTL_ADD operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (file-     descriptor consumption and system crash) via a crafted application that attempts to create a circular     epoll dependency. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1083.
    (CVE-2012-3375)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This plugin has been deprecated as it is a duplicate of oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1061-1.nasl (plugin ID 68573).

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