The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-0264 advisory.

    - [security] introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko ) [480597 480598] {CVE-2009-0031}
    - [net] sctp: overflow with bad stream ID in FWD-TSN chunk (Eugene Teo ) [478804 478805] {CVE-2009-0065}
    - [net] add preemption point in qdisc_run (Jiri Pirko ) [477746 471398] {CVE-2008-5713}
    - [fs] hfsplus: fix buffer overflow with a corrupted image (Anton Arapov ) [469637 469638] {CVE-2008-4933}
    - [fs] hfsplus: check read_mapping_page return value (Anton Arapov ) [469644 469645] {CVE-2008-4934}

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-2009-0264)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67800

Version 1.19

Version 1.18

Version 1.19 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 1.18 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-2009-0065") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2009-0031") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2009-0031, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202410222114