The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0350 advisory.

    - [fs] xfs: Fix missing xfs_iunlock() on error recovery path in xfs_readlink() (Carlos Maiolino) [749161     694702] {CVE-2011-4077}
    - [fs] xfs: Fix memory corruption in xfs_readlink (Carlos Maiolino) [749161 694702] {CVE-2011-4077}
    - [net] igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of IGMP queries (Jiri Pirko) [772870 772871]     {CVE-2012-0207}
    - [fs] xfs: validate acl count (Eric Sandeen) [773282 773283] {CVE-2012-0038}
    - [virt] kvm: x86: fix missing checks in syscall emulation (Marcelo Tosatti) [773390 773391]     {CVE-2012-0045}
    - [virt] kvm: x86: extend 'struct x86_emulate_ops' with 'get_cpuid' (Marcelo Tosatti) [773390 773391]     {CVE-2012-0045}
    - [kernel] crypto: ghash - Avoid null pointer dereference if no key is set (Jiri Benc) [749481 749482]     {CVE-2011-4081}
    - [fs] jbd2: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock() (Eryu Guan) [753344 693981] {CVE-2011-4132}
    - [net] fix unsafe pointer access in sendmmsg (Jiri Benc) [761668 760798] {CVE-2011-4594}
    - [perf] powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing (Steve Best) [767917 755737]     {CVE-2011-4611}
    - [virt] x86: Prevent starting PIT timers in the absence of irqchip support (Marcelo Tosatti) [769634     769550] {CVE-2011-4622}
    - [virt] KVM: Device assignment permission checks (Alex Williamson) [756092 756093] {CVE-2011-4347}
    - [virt] KVM: Remove ability to assign a device without iommu support (Alex Williamson) [756092 756093]     {CVE-2011-4347}

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-2012-0350)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68491

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