The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-2538 advisory.

    - Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix missing msg_namelen update in rfcomm_sock_recvmsg() (Mathias Krause) [Orabug:
    17173830] {CVE-2013-3225}
    - Bluetooth: fix possible info leak in bt_sock_recvmsg() (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17173830]     {CVE-2013-3224}
    - atm: update msg_namelen in vcc_recvmsg() (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17173830] {CVE-2013-3222}
    - rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17173830]     {CVE-2013-2635}
    - dcbnl: fix various netlink info leaks (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17173830] {CVE-2013-2634}
    - udf: avoid info leak on export (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17173830] {CVE-2012-6548}
    - tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences (Namhyung Kim) [Orabug: 17173830] {CVE-2013-3301}
    - b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 17173830] {CVE-2013-2852}

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-2013-2538)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68978

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 ("CVSSv3 score" set to 5.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2013-2635") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2013-2635, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114