The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1106 advisory.

    - [nfs] v4: client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission (Peter Staubach ) [500301 500302]     {CVE-2009-1630}
    - [fs] cifs: fix pointer and checks in cifs_follow_symlink (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
    - [fs] cifs: fix error handling in parse_DFS_referrals (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
    - [fs] cifs: buffer overruns when converting strings (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
    - [fs] cifs: unicode alignment and buffer sizing problems (Jeff Layton ) [494279 494280] {CVE-2009-1439}
    - [x86] xen: fix local denial of service (Chris Lalancette ) [500950 500951] {CVE-2009-1758}
    - [misc] add some long-missing capabilities to CAP_FS_MASK (Eric Paris ) [499075 497271 499076 497272]     {CVE-2009-1072}
    - [agp] zero pages before sending to userspace (Jiri Olsa ) [497025 497026] {CVE-2009-1192}

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-2009-1106)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67874

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 23, 2024, 12:00 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/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:H/I:N/A:N") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2009-3238") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202410230000