The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0481 advisory.

  - kernel: sysctl: restrict write access to dmesg_restrict (CVE-2011-4080)

  - kernel: block: CLONE_IO io_context refcounting issues (CVE-2012-0879)

  - kernel: cifs: dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup leads to panic on unmount (CVE-2012-1090)

  - kernel: regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets (CVE-2012-1097)

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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RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0481)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58773

Version 1.25