The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2394 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system     resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was     found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions (a     commonly used performance optimisation) in combination with handling of page-faults caused by terminated     virtual to physical address resolving process. As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw     to read privileged memory of the kernel or other processes and/or cross guest/host boundaries to read host     memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646)

    * An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented     speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies     on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact     that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and     subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed     instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this     flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3639)

    * kernel: kvm: vmx: host GDT limit corruption (CVE-2018-10901)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Intel OSSIRT (Intel.com) for reporting CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646; Ken     Johnson (Microsoft Security Response Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting     CVE-2018-3639; and Vegard Nossum (Oracle Corporation) for reporting CVE-2018-10901.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:2394)

high Nessus Plugin ID 111735

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Version 1.15 Jan 9, 2026, 4:08 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202601091608
Version 1.14 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 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 Reference Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.13 Aug 21, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-10901") Plugin Feed: 202408210955