The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1034 advisory.

    - Revert: [kernel] kmod: make request_module() killable (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752 858753] {CVE-2012-4398}
    - Revert: [kernel] kmod: avoid deadlock from recursive kmod call (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752 858753]     {CVE-2012-4398}
    - Revert: [kernel] wait_for_helper: remove unneeded do_sigaction() (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752 858753]     {CVE-2012-4398}
    - Revert: [kernel] Fix ____call_usermodehelper errs being silently ignored (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752     858753] {CVE-2012-4398}
    - Revert: [kernel] wait_for_helper: SIGCHLD from u/s cause use-after-free (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752     858753] {CVE-2012-4398}
    - [net] Bluetooth: fix possible info leak in bt_sock_recvmsg() (Radomir Vrbovsky) [955600 955601]     {CVE-2013-3224}
    - [net] Bluetooth: HCI & L2CAP information leaks (Jacob Tanenbaum) [922415 922416] {CVE-2012-6544}
    - [misc] signal: use __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER instead of SA_RESTORER (Nikola Pajkovsky) [920503 920504]     {CVE-2013-0914}
    - [misc] signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve (Nikola Pajkovsky) [920503 920504] {CVE-2013-0914}
    - [misc] signal: Def __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER for sa_restorer clear (Nikola Pajkovsky) [920503 920504]     {CVE-2013-0914}
    - [net] tg3: buffer overflow in VPD firmware parsing (Jacob Tanenbaum) [949939 949940] {CVE-2013-1929}
    - [net] atm: update msg_namelen in vcc_recvmsg() (Nikola Pajkovsky) [955222 955223] {CVE-2013-3222}
    - [net] llc: Fix missing msg_namelen update in llc_ui_recvmsg() (Jesper Brouer) [956096 956097]     {CVE-2013-3231}
    - [net] tipc: fix info leaks via msg_name in recv_msg/recv_stream (Jesper Brouer) [956148 956149]     {CVE-2013-3235}
    - [net] Bluetooth: RFCOMM Fix info leak in ioctl(RFCOMMGETDEVLIST) (Radomir Vrbovsky) [922406 922407]     {CVE-2012-6545}
    - [net] Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix info leak via getsockname() (Radomir Vrbovsky) [922406 922407]     {CVE-2012-6545}
    - [kernel] wait_for_helper: SIGCHLD from u/s cause use-after-free (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752 858753]     {CVE-2012-4398}
    - [kernel] Fix ____call_usermodehelper errs being silently ignored (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752 858753]     {CVE-2012-4398}
    - [kernel] wait_for_helper: remove unneeded do_sigaction() (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752 858753]     {CVE-2012-4398}
    - [kernel] kmod: avoid deadlock from recursive kmod call (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752 858753]     {CVE-2012-4398}
    - [kernel] kmod: make request_module() killable (Frantisek Hrbata) [858752 858753] {CVE-2012-4398}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1034)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68844

Version 1.14

Version 1.13

Version 1.14 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 1.13 Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2013-3235") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2013-3231") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410230000