The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1539 advisory.

    - [security] keys: potential uninitialized variable (David Howells) [1345935 1341352] {CVE-2016-4470}
    - [infiniband] security: Restrict use of the write() interface (Don Dutile) [1332553 1316685]     {CVE-2016-4565}
    - [s390] mm: four page table levels vs. fork (Hendrik Brueckner) [1341547 1308879] {CVE-2016-2143}

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.

Detections

Analytics

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2016-1539)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92688

Version 2.16