The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1193 advisory.

    - [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 11 packet literal data buffer size (Eric Sandeen ) [512862 512863]     {CVE-2009-2406}
    - [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 3 packet encrypted key size (Eric Sandeen ) [512886 512887] {CVE-2009-2407}
    - [misc] personality handling: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [511173 508842] {CVE-2009-1895}
    - [misc] hrtimer: fix a soft lockup (Amerigo Wang ) [418061 418071] {CVE-2007-5966}

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-2009-1193)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67904

Version 1.21

Version 1.20

Version 1.21 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 1.20 Oct 23, 2024, 3:47 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 7.2) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") 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 ("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-2009-1895") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2009-1388") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2009-1388, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202410231547