The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3646 advisory.

    - aacraid: Check size values after double-fetch from user (Dave Carroll)  [Orabug: 25060055]     {CVE-2016-6480} {CVE-2016-6480}
    - audit: fix a double fetch in audit_log_single_execve_arg() (Paul Moore)  [Orabug: 25059962]     {CVE-2016-6136}
    - ecryptfs: don't allow mmap when the lower fs doesn't support it (Jeff Mahoney)  [Orabug: 24971918]     {CVE-2016-1583} {CVE-2016-1583}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_tinterrupt (Kangjie Lu)  [Orabug: 25059900]     {CVE-2016-4578}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_ccallback (Kangjie Lu)  [Orabug: 25059900]     {CVE-2016-4578}
    - ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS (Kangjie Lu)  [Orabug: 25059755]  {CVE-2016-4569}
    - Bluetooth: Fix potential NULL dereference in RFCOMM bind callback (Jaganath Kanakkassery)  [Orabug:
    25058905]  {CVE-2015-8956}

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-2016-3646)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95044

Version 2.12