The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0723 advisory.

    - [misc] make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()       (Don Howard) [634463 634464] {CVE-2010-3081}
    - [fs] xfs: fix missing untrusted inode lookup tag (Dave Chinner)       [624366 607032] {CVE-2010-2943}
    - [net] sched: fix some kernel memory leaks (Jiri Pirko) [624904 624638]       {CVE-2010-2942}
    - [usb] fix usbfs information leak (Eugene Teo) [566628 566629] {CVE-2010-1083}
    - [fs] xfs: rename XFS_IGET_BULKSTAT to XFS_IGET_UNTRUSTED (Dave Chinner)       [624366 607032] {CVE-2010-2943}
    - [fs] xfs: validate untrusted inode numbers during lookup (Dave Chinner)       [624366 607032] {CVE-2010-2943}
    - [fs] xfs: always use iget in bulkstat (Dave Chinner) [624366 607032]       {CVE-2010-2943}
    - [xen] fix guest crash on non-EPT machine may crash host (Paolo Bonzini)       [621429 621430] {CVE-2010-2938}
    - [fs] ext4: consolidate in_range definitions (Eric Sandeen) [624331 624332]       {CVE-2010-3015}
    - [mm] accept an abutting stack segment (Jiri Pirko) [607857 607858]       {CVE-2010-2240}
    - [mm] pass correct mm when growing stack (Jiri Pirko) [607857 607858]       {CVE-2010-2240}
    - [mm] fix up some user-visible effects of stack guard page (Jiri Pirko)       [607857 607858] {CVE-2010-2240}
    - [mm] fix page table unmap for stack guard page properly (Jiri Pirko)       [607857 607858] {CVE-2010-2240}
    - [mm] fix missing unmap for stack guard page failure case (Jiri Pirko)       [607857 607858] {CVE-2010-2240}

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-2010-0723)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68106

Version 1.18

Version 1.17

Version 1.18 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 1.17 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 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 8.1) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N") 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-2010-2798") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2010-2943") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114