The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-3082 advisory.

    - ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions (Lars-Peter Clausen)  [Orabug:
    19817786]  {CVE-2014-4653} {CVE-2014-4654} {CVE-2014-4655}
    - ALSA: control: Fix replacing user controls (Lars-Peter Clausen)  [Orabug: 19817748]  {CVE-2014-4653}     {CVE-2014-4654} {CVE-2014-4655}
    - kvm: iommu: fix the third parameter of kvm_iommu_put_pages (CVE-2014-3601) (Michael S. Tsirkin)     [Orabug: 19817647]  {CVE-2014-3601}
    - mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking (Vlastimil Babka)  [Orabug: 19817323]     {CVE-2014-3122}
    - vm: convert fb_mmap to vm_iomap_memory() helper (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 19816563]  {CVE-2013-2596}
    - vm: add vm_iomap_memory() helper function (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 19816563]  {CVE-2013-2596}

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-2014-3082)

high Nessus Plugin ID 78579

Version 1.18

Version 1.17

Version 1.18 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 1.17 Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410230000