The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1241 advisory.

    - privilege escalation via mountpoint race conditions (CVE-2011-1831, CVE-2011-1832)
    - race condition when checking source during mount (CVE-2011-1833)
    - mtab corruption via improper handling (CVE-2011-1834)
    - key poisoning via insecure temp directory handling (CVE-2011-1835)

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 / 6 : ecryptfs-utils (ELSA-2011-1241)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68338

Version 1.13