The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0957 advisory.

    - [i386] vDSO: use install_special_mapping (Peter Zijlstra ) [460275 460276] {CVE-2008-3527}
    - [fs] remove SUID when splicing into an inode (Eric Sandeen ) [464451 464452] {CVE-2008-3833}
    - [fs] open() allows setgid bit when user is not in group (Eugene Teo ) [463867 463687] {CVE-2008-4210}
    - [xen] allow guests to hide the TSC from applications (Chris Lalancette ) [378471 378481] {CVE-2007-5907}
    - [x86_64] xen: local DOS due to NT bit leakage (Eugene Teo ) [457721 457722] {CVE-2006-5755}
    - [net] dccp_setsockopt_change integer overflow (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [459232 459235] {CVE-2008-3276}
    - [mm] optimize ZERO_PAGE in 'get_user_pages' and fix XIP (Anton Arapov ) [452667 452668] {CVE-2008-2372}

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 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0957)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67758

Version 1.20

Version 1.19

Version 1.20 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 1.19 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 4.9) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N") 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:H/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2008-3833") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2008-3833, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2008-4302") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2008-4302, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202410222114