The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1465 advisory.

    - [net] vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (Andy Gospodarek) [742849 714936]     {CVE-2011-3593}
    - [kernel] fix taskstats io infoleak (Jerome Marchand) [716847 716848] {CVE-2011-2494}
    - [tpm] Zero buffer after copying to userspace (Jiri Benc) [732632 732633] {CVE-2011-1162}
    - [fs] cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers (Jeff Layton) [738301 692709]     {CVE-2011-3363}
    - [fs] cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount (Jeff Layton) [738301 692709]     {CVE-2011-3363}
    - [net] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Jiri Pirko) [723432 723433] {CVE-2011-2699}
    - [netdrv] b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset (RuiRui Yang) [738204     738205] {CVE-2011-3359}
    - [fs] fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message (RuiRui Yang) [736764 736765] {CVE-2011-3353}
    - [fs] cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext (Jeff Layton) [737482 730354] {CVE-2011-3191}
    - [kernel] perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration (Jiri Benc) [730203 730204]     {CVE-2011-2905}
    - [fs] corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops (Jerome Marchand) [695981 695982]     {CVE-2011-1577}
    - [net] Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. (Jiri Pirko) [732664 732665]     {CVE-2011-3188}
    - [crypto] Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c (Jiri Pirko) [732664 732665] {CVE-2011-3188}

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 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-1465)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68393

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