The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0439 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux     operating system.

    * A denial of service flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPv6     implementation processed IPv6 router advertisement (RA) packets.
    An attacker able to send a large number of RA packets to a target system     could potentially use this flaw to crash the target system. (CVE-2014-2309,     Important)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter connection     tracking implementation for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)     packets used the skb_header_pointer() function. A remote attacker could use     this flaw to send a specially crafted DCCP packet to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-2523,     Important)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's CIFS implementation     handled uncached write operations with specially crafted iovec structures.
    An unprivileged local user with access to a CIFS share could use this flaw     to crash the system, leak kernel memory, or, potentially, escalate their     privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-0069, Moderate)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled pending Floating     Pointer Unit (FPU) exceptions during the switching of tasks. A local     attacker could use this flaw to terminate arbitrary processes on the     system, causing a denial of service, or, potentially, escalate their     privileges on the system. Note that this flaw only affected systems using     AMD CPUs on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. (CVE-2014-1438, Moderate)

    * It was found that certain protocol handlers in the Linux kernel's     networking implementation could set the addr_len value without initializing     the associated data structure. A local, unprivileged user could use this     flaw to leak kernel stack memory to user space using the recvmsg, recvfrom,     and recvmmsg system calls. (CVE-2013-7263, CVE-2013-7265, Low)

    * An information leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter     connection tracking IRC NAT helper implementation that could allow a remote     attacker to disclose portions of kernel stack memory during IRC DCC (Direct     Client-to-Client) communication over NAT. (CVE-2014-1690, Low)

    * A denial of service flaw was discovered in the way the Linux kernel's     SELinux implementation handled files with an empty SELinux security     context. A local user who has the CAP_MAC_ADMIN capability could use this     flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-1874, Low)

    Red Hat would like to thank Al Viro for reporting CVE-2014-0069.
    The CVE-2014-1690 issue was discovered by Daniel Borkmann of Red Hat.

    This update also fixes several bugs and adds multiple enhancements.
    Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the     Technical Notes document linked to in the References section.

    Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which upgrade the     kernel-rt kernel to version kernel-rt-3.10.33-rt32.33, correct these     issues, and fix the bugs and add the enhancements noted in the Red Hat     Enterprise MRG 2 Technical Notes. The system must be rebooted for this     update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2014:0439)

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