The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2015 advisory.

    - sctp: fix to calc the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length correctly is set {CVE-2011-1573}
    - dccp: fix oops on Reset after close {CVE-2011-1093}
    - bridge: netfilter: fix information leak {CVE-2011-1080}
    - Bluetooth: bnep: fix buffer overflow {CVE-2011-1079}
    - net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules {CVE-2011-1019}
    - drm/radeon/kms: check AA resolve registers on r300 {CVE-2011-1016}
    - drm/radeon: fix regression with AA resolve checking {CVE-2011-1016}
    - drm: fix unsigned vs signed comparison issue in modeset ctl ioctl {CVE-2011-1013}
    - proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat {CVE-2011-0726}
    - ALSA: caiaq - Fix possible string-buffer overflow {CVE-2011-0712}
    - xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls {CVE-2011-0711}
    - xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 {CVE-2011-0711}
    - ima: fix add LSM rule bug {CVE-2011-0006}
    - IB/uverbs: Handle large number of entries in poll CQ {CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-1044}
    - CAN: Use inode instead of kernel address for /proc file {CVE-2010-4565}

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 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2015)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68416

Version 1.16