The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3503 advisory.

    - ipc/sem.c: fully initialize sem_array before making it visible (Manfred Spraul)  [Orabug: 22250043]     {CVE-2015-7613}
    - Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid() (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 22250043]     {CVE-2015-7613}
    - crypto: add missing crypto module aliases (Mathias Krause)  [Orabug: 22249655]  {CVE-2013-7421}     {CVE-2014-9644}
    - crypto: include crypto- module prefix in template (Kees Cook)  [Orabug: 22249655]  {CVE-2013-7421}     {CVE-2014-9644}
    - crypto: prefix module autoloading with 'crypto-' (Kees Cook)  [Orabug: 22249655]  {CVE-2013-7421}     {CVE-2014-9644}
    - KVM: add arg to ac_interception() missing from 'KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when     #AC is delivered' (Chuck Anderson)  [Orabug: 22336493]  {CVE-2015-5307}
    - KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB (Paolo Bonzini)  [Orabug: 22336518]  {CVE-2015-8104}     {CVE-2015-8104}

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-2016-3503)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 87836

Version 2.13