The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0705 advisory.

    [2.6.18-8.1.10.0.1.el5]
     - Fix bonding primary=ethX (Bert Barbe) [IT 101532] [ORA 5136660]
     - Add entropy module option to e1000/bnx2 (John Sobecki) [ORA 6045759]

     [2.6.18-8.1.10.el5]
     - [mm] Prevent the stack growth into hugetlb reserved regions (Konrad      Rzeszutek) [253313] {CVE-2007-3739}

     [2.6.18-8.1.9.el5]
     - [misc] cpuset information leak (Prarit Bhargava ) [245773] {CVE-2007-2875}
     - [net] ip_conntrack_sctp: fix remotely triggerable panic (Don Howard )      [245774] {CVE-2007-2876}
     - [misc] Overflow in CAPI subsystem (Anton Arapov ) [232260] {CVE-2007-1217}
     - [CIFS] fix signing sec= mount options (Jeff Layton ) [253315]      {CVE-2007-3843}
     - [CIFS] respect umask when unix extensions are enabled (Jeff Layton )      [253314] {CVE-2007-3740}
     - [misc] i915_dma: fix batch buffer security bit for i965 chipsets      (Aristeu Rozanski ) [252305] {CVE-2007-3851}
     - [fs] - Move msdos compat ioctl to msdos dir (Eric Sandeen ) [253317]
     - [fs] - fix VFAT compat ioctls on 64-bit systems (Eric Sandeen )      [253317] {CVE-2007-2878}

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

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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Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2007-0705)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67543

Version 1.17

Version 1.16

Version 1.17 Nov 1, 2024, 9:03 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411012103
Version 1.16 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 5.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2007-1217") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2007-3739") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2007-3739, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202410222114