The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4025 advisory.

    - dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code (Mohamed Ghannam)  [Orabug: 27290300]  {CVE-2017-8824}
    - ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in snd_pcm_info (Robb Glasser)  [Orabug: 27344841]  {CVE-2017-0861}     {CVE-2017-0861}
    - assoc_array: Fix a buggy node-splitting case (David Howells)  [Orabug: 27364592]  {CVE-2017-12193}     {CVE-2017-12193}
    - Sanitize move_pages() permission checks (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 27364690]  {CVE-2017-14140}
    - pti: compile fix for when PTI is disabled (Pavel Tatashin)  [Orabug: 27383147]  {CVE-2017-5754}
    - sctp: do not peel off an assoc from one netns to another one (Xin Long)  [Orabug: 27386999]     {CVE-2017-15115}
    - net: ipv4: fix for a race condition in raw_sendmsg (Mohamed Ghannam)  [Orabug: 27390682]     {CVE-2017-17712}

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 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4025)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106670

Version 3.16

Version 3.15

Version 3.14

Version 3.16 Jan 13, 2026, 11:35 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202601131135
Version 3.15 Oct 23, 2024, 10:51 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410232251
Version 3.14 Aug 11, 2023, 10:11 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202308111011