The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3587 advisory.

    - vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal (Miklos Szeredi)  [Orabug: 24010060]  {CVE-2016-6198}     {CVE-2016-6197}
    - vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper (Miklos Szeredi)  [Orabug: 24010060]  {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
    - ovl: verify upper dentry before unlink and rename (Miklos Szeredi)  [Orabug: 24010060]  {CVE-2016-6198}     {CVE-2016-6197}
    - ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir (Rui Wang)  [Orabug: 24010060]  {CVE-2016-6198}     {CVE-2016-6197}
    - atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature (Ben Hutchings)  [Orabug: 23704078]  {CVE-2016-2117}

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 : kernel-uek (ELSA-2016-3587)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92656

Version 2.12