The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-15401 advisory.

  - The rds_ib_xmit function in net/rds/ib_send.c in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol     implementation in the Linux kernel 3.7.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service     (BUG_ON and kernel panic) by establishing an RDS connection with the source IP address equal to the IPoIB     interface's own IP address, as demonstrated by rds-ping. (CVE-2012-2372)

  - Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (slab corruption and system crash) by sending packets to an application that     sets socket options during the handling of network traffic. (CVE-2012-3552)

  - Race condition in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain     sensitive information from a deleted file by reading an extent that was not properly marked as     uninitialized. (CVE-2012-4508)

  - Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial     of service (Xen infinite loop and physical CPU consumption) by setting a VCPU with an inappropriate     deadline. (CVE-2012-4535)

  - Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly synchronize the p2m and m2p tables     when the set_p2m_entry function fails, which allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of     service (memory consumption and assertion failure), aka Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability.
    (CVE-2012-4537)

  - The XENMEM_exchange handler in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly check the memory address, which     allows local PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges     via unspecified vectors that overwrite memory in the hypervisor reserved range. (CVE-2012-5513)

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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