The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0926 advisory.

    - [infiniband] rds: do not deref NULL dev in rds_iw_laddr_check() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1093311 1093312]     {CVE-2014-2678}
    - [xen] page-alloc: scrub anonymous domain heap pages upon freeing (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1103648 1103649]     {CVE-2014-4021}

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 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0926)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 76856

Version 1.15

Version 1.14

Version 1.15 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 1.14 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 2.7) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 9.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2014-4021") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2014-4021, severity decreased from "Medium" to "Low") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114