The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1997 advisory.

    - [x86] traps: stop using IST for #SS (Petr  Matousek) [1172810 1172811] {CVE-2014-9322}
    - [fs] udf: Avoid infinite loop when processing indirect ICBs (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1142319 1142320]     {CVE-2014-6410}
    - [fs] isofs: unbound recursion when processing relocated directories (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1142268 1142269]     {CVE-2014-5472 CVE-2014-5471}
    - [net] sctp: fix remote memory pressure from excessive queueing (Daniel Borkmann) [1155746 1154676]     {CVE-2014-3688}
    - [net] sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks (Daniel Borkmann) [1155733 1154676] {CVE-2014-3687}
    - [net] sctp: fix skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks (Daniel Borkmann) [1147857     1154676] {CVE-2014-3673}
    - [net] guard tcp_set_keepalive() to tcp sockets (Florian Westphal) [1141744 1141746] {CVE-2012-6657}
    - [x86] kvm: fix PIT timer race condition (mguzik) [1149592 1149593] {CVE-2014-3611}

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-2014-1997)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80070

Version 1.21