The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0771 advisory.

    - [kernel] futex: Make lookup_pi_state more robust (Jerome Marchand) [1104516 1104517] {CVE-2014-3153}
    - [kernel] futex: Always cleanup owner tid in unlock_pi (Jerome Marchand) [1104516 1104517]     {CVE-2014-3153}
    - [kernel] futex: Validate atomic acquisition in futex_lock_pi_atomic() (Jerome Marchand) [1104516     1104517] {CVE-2014-3153}
    - [kernel] futex: prevent requeue pi on same futex (Jerome Marchand) [1104516 1104517] {CVE-2014-3153}
    - [block] floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output (Denys Vlasenko) [1094308     1094310] {CVE-2014-1738 CVE-2014-1737}
    - [block] floppy: ignore kernel-only members in FDRAWCMD ioctl input (Denys Vlasenko) [1094308 1094310]     {CVE-2014-1738 CVE-2014-1737}
    - [fs] vfs: fix autofs/afs/etc magic mountpoint breakage (Frantisek Hrbata) [1094370 1079347]     {CVE-2014-0203}
    - [char] n_tty: Fix n_tty_write crash when echoing in raw mode (Aristeu Rozanski) [1094236 1094237]     {CVE-2014-0196}
    - [security] selinux: Fix kernel BUG on empty security contexts (Paul Moore) [1062502 1064545]     {CVE-2014-1874}
    - [netdrv] libertas: potential oops in debugfs (Denys Vlasenko) [1034176 1034177] {CVE-2013-6378}
    - [s390] fix kernel crash due to linkage stack instructions (Hendrik Brueckner) [1067678 1067679]     {CVE-2014-2039}

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-2014-0771)

high Nessus Plugin ID 76155

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