The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0004 advisory.

    - [virt] xen: fix netback hotplug regression in xenbus fix (Laszlo Ersek) [636412 635999] {CVE-2010-3699}
    - [misc] posix-cpu-timers: workaround for mt exec problems (Oleg Nesterov) [656265 656266] {CVE-2010-4248}
    - [fs] setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size (Oleg Nesterov) [645226 645227] {CVE-2010-3858}
    - [net] inet_diag: make sure we run audited bytecode (Jiri Pirko) [651266 651267] {CVE-2010-3880}
    - [net] limit sendto/recvfrom/iovec total length to INT_MAX (Jiri Pirko) [645871 645872] {CVE-2010-3859}
    - [bluetooth] hci_ldisc: fix missing NULL check (Jarod Wilson) [655664 655666] {CVE-2010-4242}
    - [virt] xen: add bounds req-process loop in blkback/blktap (Laszlo Ersek) [656208 654546] {CVE-2010-4247}
    - [virt] xen: don't leak dev refs on bad xenbus transitions (Laszlo Ersek) [636412 635999] {CVE-2010-3699}
    - [net] rds: fix rds_iovec page count overflow (Jiri Pirko) [647421 647422] {CVE-2010-3865}
    - [net] fix deadlock in sock_queue_rcv_skb (Danny Feng) [652536 652537] {CVE-2010-4161}
    - [net] packet: fix information leak to userland (Jiri Pirko) [649897 649898] {CVE-2010-3876}
    - [ipc] sys_semctl: fix kernel stack leakage (Danny Feng) [648721 648722] {CVE-2010-4083}
    - [net] sctp: do not reset packet during sctp_packet_config (Jiri Pirko) [637866 637867] {CVE-2010-3432}
    - [scsi] gdth: prevent integer overflow in ioc_general (Frantisek Hrbata) [651175 651176] {CVE-2010-4157}
    - [sound] core: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new (Jerome Marchand) [638483 638484] {CVE-2010-3442}

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-2011-0004)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68176

Version 1.18

Version 1.17

Version 1.18 Nov 1, 2024, 11:44 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: 202411012344
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 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-2010-3865") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2010-3880") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2010-3880, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114