The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0833 advisory.

    - [scsi] mpt2sas: prevent heap overflows and unchecked access (Tomas Henzl) [694526 694527] {CVE-2011-1495     CVE-2011-1494}
    - [net] bridge/netfilter: fix ebtables information leak (Don Howard) [681325 681326] {CVE-2011-1080}
    - [net] bluetooth: fix sco information leak to userspace (Don Howard) [681310 681311] {CVE-2011-1078}
    - [fs] fix corrupted GUID partition table kernel oops (Jerome Marchand) [695979 695980] {CVE-2011-1577}
    - [xen] x86/domain: fix error checks in arch_set_info_guest (Laszlo Ersek) [688581 688582] {CVE-2011-1166}
    - [fs] partitions: Fix corrupted OSF partition table parsing (Danny Feng) [688022 688023] {CVE-2011-1163}
    - [net] netfilter: ip6_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689348 689349] {CVE-2011-1172}
    - [net] netfilter/ip_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689331 689332] {CVE-2011-1171}
    - [net] netfilter/arp_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689322 689323] {CVE-2011-1170}
    - [fs] proc: protect mm start_/end_code in /proc/pid/stat (Eugene Teo) [684570 684571] {CVE-2011-0726}
    - [net] dccp: fix oops in dccp_rcv_state_process (Eugene Teo) [682955 682956] {CVE-2011-1093}
    - [net] bluetooth: fix bnep buffer overflow (Don Howard) [681318 681319] {CVE-2011-1079}

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-2011-0833)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68276

Version 1.21

Version 1.20

Version 1.21 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 1.20 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 7.7) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:U/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2011-1763") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2011-1093") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114