The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-2003 advisory.

    - [fs] xfs: Fix possible memory corruption in xfs_readlink (Carlos Maiolino) {CVE-2011-4077}
    - crypto: ghash - Avoid null pointer dereference if no key is set (Nick Bowler) {CVE-2011-4081}
    - jbd/jbd2: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock() (Eryu Guan) {CVE-2011-4132}
    - KVM: Device assignment permission checks (Joe Jin) {CVE-2011-4347}
    - KVM: x86: Prevent starting PIT timers in the absence of irqchip support (Jan Kiszka) {CVE-2011-4622}
    - xfs: validate acl count (Joe Jin) {CVE-2012-0038}
    - KVM: x86: fix missing checks in syscall emulation (Joe Jin) {CVE-2012-0045}
    - KVM: x86: extend 'struct x86_emulate_ops' with 'get_cpuid' (Joe Jin) {CVE-2012-0045}
    - igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of IGMP queries (Ben Hutchings) {CVE-2012-0207}

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-2012-2003)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68669

Version 1.20

Version 1.19

Version 1.20 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 1.19 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.9) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2011-4077, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2012-0207") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114