The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1426 advisory.

    - [mm] hugetlb: do not use vma_hugecache_offset() for vma_prio_tree_foreach (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034     843035] {CVE-2012-2133}
    - [mm] hugepages: fix use after free bug in 'quota' handling (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035]     {CVE-2012-2133}
    - [mm] hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping page from vma (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035]     {CVE-2012-2133}
    - [mm] hugetlb: fix ENOSPC returned by handle_mm_fault() (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035]     {CVE-2012-2133}
    - [mm] x86_32: fix SHLIB_BASE address typo (Aristeu S. Rozanski F) [804955 804956] {CVE-2012-1568}
    - [mm] x86_32: randomize SHLIB_BASE (Aristeu Rozanski) [804955 804956] {CVE-2012-1568}
    - [mm] Hold a file reference in madvise_remove (Jerome Marchand) [849738 849739] {CVE-2012-3511}
    - [fs] udf: fix retun value on error path in udf_load_logicalvol (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143]     {CVE-2012-3400}
    - [fs] udf: Improve table length check to avoid possible overflow (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143]     {CVE-2012-3400}
    - [fs] udf: Fortify loading of sparing table (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143] {CVE-2012-3400}
    - [fs] udf: Avoid run away loop when partition table length is corrupted (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142     843143] {CVE-2012-3400}
    - [fs] udf: Use 'ret' instead of abusing 'i' in udf_load_logicalvol() (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143]     {CVE-2012-3400}

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-2012-1426)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68651

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