The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2118 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write     (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to     gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
    (CVE-2016-5195, Important)

    Red Hat would like to thank Phil Oester for reporting this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2118)

high Nessus Plugin ID 94317

Version 2.24