The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0542 advisory.

    - [net] limit socket backlog add operation to prevent possible DoS (Jiri Pirko) [694396] {CVE-2010-4251}
    - [scsi] mpt2sas: prevent heap overflows and unchecked (Tomas Henzl) [694023] {CVE-2011-1494     CVE-2011-1495}
    - [fs] epoll: prevent creating circular epoll structures (Don Howard) [681683] {CVE-2011-1082}
    - [fs] nfs: Ensure that NFS4 acl requests don't use slab in skb fraglist (Neil Horman) [682645]     {CVE-2011-1090}
    - [fs] partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables (Danny Feng) [679286] {CVE-2011-1010}
    - [fs] Fix corrupted OSF partition table parsing (Danny Feng) [688025] {CVE-2011-1163}
    - [net] sctp: fix the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length calculation (Thomas Graf) [690743] {CVE-2011-1573}
    - [net] CAN: Use inode instead of kernel address for /proc file (Danny Feng) [664561] {CVE-2010-4565}
    - [fs] inotify: fix double free/corruption of stuct user (Eric Paris) [656832] {CVE-2010-4250}
    - [net] bonding: fix incorrect tx queue offset (Andy Gospodarek) [695548] {CVE-2011-1581}
    - [tracing] t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread (Jiri Olsa) [631626] {CVE-2010-3079}
    - [net] ipv6: netfilter: ip6_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689351] {CVE-2011-1172}
    - [net] netfilter: ip_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689334] {CVE-2011-1171}
    - [net] netfilter: arp_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689325] {CVE-2011-1170}
    - [drm] radeon/kms: check AA resolve registers on r300 + regression fix (Dave Airlie) [680002]     {CVE-2011-1016}
    - [net] fix ebtables stack infoleak (Eugene Teo) [681323] {CVE-2011-1080}
    - [drm] fix unsigned vs signed comparison issue in modeset ctl ioctl (Don Howard) [679928] {CVE-2011-1013}

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 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0542)

high Nessus Plugin ID 181049

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Version 1.2 Feb 9, 2026, 11:06 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202602092306
Version 1.1 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 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: 202410222114
Version 1.0 Sep 7, 2023, 11:01 PM New Plugin Feed: 202309072301