The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2008-150:05 advisory.

    The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system.  The     kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device     input and output, etc.
    - [cpufreq] : coordinate to keep abi compatibility with rhel51 (Patch104214)     [Bug 4145]
    - revert : CVE-2007-4571 : Convert snd-page-alloc proc file to use seq_file for     alsa (Patch200105) [Bug 4145]
    - [sky2] : Disable checksum on Yukon2-XL to prevent an annoying error message     caused by the chip glitch (Patch102620) [Bug 4898]
    - [x86_64] replace : extend MCE banks support for Dunnington, Nehalem     (Patch108110 -> Patch108111) [Bug 4793]
    - [scsi] replace : megaraid_sas: wait for cmd_status to change (Patch103130)     [Bug 4543]
    - [nfs] sunrpc: fix hang due to eventd deadlock (Patch108090) [Bug 4703]
    - [nfs] sunrpc: fix a race in rpciod_down (Patch108091) [Bug 4703]
    - [x86_64] Switching to vsyscall64 causes oops (Jeff Burke) (Patch108100)     [Bug 4740]
    - [x86_64] Remove 6 bank limitation in 64 bit MCE reporting code (Patch108110)     [Bug 4457]
    - [scsi] megaraid_sas: wait for cmd_status to change (Patch103130) [Bug 4543]
    - [scsi] megaraid_sas: many illegal interrupts appear (Patch103131) [Bug 4779]
    - [cpufreq] Add check for dmi_data in powernow_k8 driver     (Patch104211 Patch104213) [Bug 4604]
    - [MAZE] Update MAZE to replace Patch file (Patch300002) [Bug 4774]
    - [cpufreq] revert: Hot fix about cpufreq (Patch104211) [Bug 4604]
    - [cxgb3] revert: Merge cxgb3 driver version 1.0.129a. Although TOE can work with     CONFIG_TCP_OFFLOAD, we disable by default. (Patch103090) [Bug 4145]
    - [net] ipv6: Drop packets for loopback address from outside of the box     (Patch108086) [Bug 4546]
    - [scsi] lpfc: Update version from 8.1.10.9 to 8.2.0.22 with bug fix     (Patch102100 - Patch102104) [Bug 4462]
    - [cpufreq] Hot fix about cpufreq (Patch104200 - Patch104211) [Bug 3958]
    - [cpufreq] Hot fix about cpufreq (Patch104212) [Bug 4531]
    - [x86] Correct cpu cache info for Intel Tolapai (Patch108084) [Bug 4475]
    - [x86] Support ICH10 (Patch108085) [Bug 4527]
    - [misc] Fix a deadlock about smp_send_stop when panic (Patch200100) [Bug 4205]
    - [misc] Fix a deadlock on on_each_cpu (Patch200101) [Bug 4345]
    - [x86] report_lost_ticks fix up (Patch100120) [Bug 4161]
    - [e1000e] Revert 7.6.15.5-NAPI and update to 0.2.9.5 (Patch103113 Patch103114)     [Bug 4247]
    - [net] (IPV6) Accept routing header only when hdr->segments_left is zero     (Patch108080) [Bug 4377]
    - [net] (IPV6) Fix BUG of ndisc_send_redirect()     backport from 2.6.20 (Patch108081) [Bug 4379]
    - [net] (IPV6) Fix ICMPv6 redirect handling with target multicast address     backport from 2.6.23 (Patch108082) [Bug 4379]
    - [net] (IPV6) Defer IPv6 device initialization until a valid qdisc is specified     (Patch108083) [Bug 4380]
    - [ioat] Update ioat device ids (Patch108032) [Bug 4289]
    - CVE-2007-4571 : Convert snd-page-alloc proc file to use seq_file for alsa     [Patch200105]
    - CVE-2007-4997 : off-by-two integer underflow for ieee80211 [Patch200106]
    - CVE-2007-5494 : missing dput in do_lookup error leaks dentries for fs     [Patch200107]
    - [fs] sysfs: store inode nrs in s_ino (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}     [Patch200108]
    - Delete [Patch103007], which been instead by [Patch200108]
    - [fs] sysfs: fix condition check in sysfs_drop_dentry() (Eric Sandeen )     [245777] {CVE-2007-3104} [Patch200109]
    - [fs] sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry (Eric Sandeen ) [245777]     {CVE-2007-3104} [Patch200110]
    - [fs] core dump file ownership (Don Howard ) [396991] {CVE-2007-6206}     [Patch200111]
    - [fs] corruption by unprivileged user in directories (Vitaly Mayatskikh )     [428796] {CVE-2008-0001} [Patch200112]
    - CVE-2008-0600 : kernel vmsplice_to_pipe flaw [Patch200115]
    - CVE-2006-6921 : Denial of service with wedged processes [Patch200116]
    - CVE-2007-6063 : fix possible isdn_net buffer overflows [Patch200118]
    - CVE-2007-6694 : fix possible strncmp NULL pointer usage [Patch200119]
    - CVE-2007-5938 : fix NULL dereference in iwl driver [Patch200120]
    - [KAHO] Delete Debug option (Patch300004) [Bug 4290]
    - [KAHO] Fix the invalid state change (Patch300004) [Bug 4291]
    - [KAHO] Fix the deadlock in consecutive memory allocation (Patch300004) [Bug 4292]
    - [KAHO] Fix typo in error message (Patch300004) [Bug 4293]
    - [MAZE] Update MAZE to replace Patch file (Patch300002) [Bug 4309]
    - [e1000e] Fix network link down when repeating to reboot (Patch103112)     [Bug 4184]
    - [MAZE] Update MAZE to replace Patch file (Patch300002) [Bug 4181]
    - [E7221] Add E7221 pci ids to kernel (Patch108040) [Bug 3909]
    - [IA64] forbid ptrace changes psr.ri to 3 (Patch108050) [Bug 3576]
    - [igb] Backport patch for 2.6.18 (Patch103081) [Bug 4129]
    - [stex] Update patch of 3.06.0205.00 (Patch102060) [Bug 3858]
    - [ocfs2] Update version number to 1.2.8 (Patch103100) [Bug 4073]
    - [e1000e] Fix unknown symbol e1000_intr_msi (Patch103110) [Bug 4105]
    - [e1000e] Fix ethtool gets a wrong driver name (Patch103111) [Bug 4144]
    - [IOAPIC] Fix IOAPIC uniqe ID checking (Patch108060) [Bug 4057]
    - [cxgb3] Merge cxgb3 driver version 1.0.129a. Although TOE can work with     CONFIG_TCP_OFFLOAD, we disable by default. (Patch103090) [Bug 3928]
    - [x86 oprofile] Add support for the latest Intel processors to Oprofile     [Patch108001 Bug 3948]
    - [ixgbe] Add support ixgbe-1.3.16.1 [Patch103071 Patch103072 Bug 3950]
    - [dca] Add a new module dca which depend by ioat && ixgbe [Patch103070]
    - [igb] Update igb driver to version 1.2.22 (Patch103080) [Bug 3954]
    - [ioat] Update ioat driver to version 1.9 and support unisys     (Patch108030, Patch108030) [Bug 3956]
    - [ACPICA] Fix acpi-cpufreq boot crash due to _PSD return-by-reference     [Patch108000 Bug 3957]
    - [e1000e] Update e1000e to v7.6.15 with replace Patch files     (Patch103042, Patch103043, Patch103044, Patch103045, Patch103047,     Patch103048, Patch103049) [Bug 4055]
    - [comptemp] Add support coretemp driver for hwmon using a snapshot of     torvalds/linux-2.6.git (Patch108010) [Bug 4071]
    - [it87] Add IT8716F/IT8718F/IT8726F support (Patch108020) [Bug 4072]
    - [ocfs2] Update ocfs2 driver to version 1.2.8-2 (Patch103051) [Bug 4073]
    - [PCI IDS] Update pci_ids     HT1000 [Patch104001 ~ Patch104002]     MCP67/73/77 [Patch104003 ~ Patch104006]     VIA VT8237S [Patch104007]     INTEL TOLAPAI [Patch104008 ~ Patch104009]     BCM82XX [Patch104010 ~ Patch104014]
    - [KAHO] Add KAHO runtime binary patch function (Patch300001, bug#4019)
    - [MAZE] Add MAZE Monitoring function (Patch300002, bug#4025)
    - [SCTP] Upgrade of based codes to 2.6.21 of stock kernel     and bug fix for AXS3SP1 (Patch300003, bug#4027)
    - Build Base Kernel For Asianux
    - Merge patches from AX20 SP2
    - [Patches 100100 100101 100200 100201 102030 102031 102040 102050 103000
    - 103002 103060]
    - Merge patches from AXS3
    - [Patches 100102 100104 100105 100110 100111 100112 100114 100115 100300
    - 102011 102012 102014 102015 102020 102021 102022 102023 102024 102051
    - 102052 102500 102501 102600 102601 103004 103005 103006 103007 103010
    - 103011 103012 103013 103014 103015 103018 103019 103020 103021 103022
    - 103023 103031 103032 103034 103039 103040 103041 103042 103043 103044
    - 103045 103046 103047 103048 103049 103050 103052 103053 103056 103057
    - 103059 103061 103062 200000 200001 200002 200003 200004 200005 200006
    - 200007 200011]
    - [GFS2] handle multiple demote requests
    - [scsi] megaraid_sas: kabi fix for /proc entries
    - [sound] allow creation of null parent devices
    - [net] iwlwifi: avoid BUG_ON in tx cmd queue processing
    - [GFS2] Get super block a different way
    - [GFS2] dlm: schedule during recovery loops
    - Revert: [pata] IDE (siimage) panics when DRAC4 reset
    - Revert: [net] bonding: convert timers to workqueues
    - [pata] enable IDE (siimage) DRAC4
    - [GFS2] gfs2_writepage(s) workaround
    - [scsi] aacraid: Missing ioctl() permission checks  {CVE-2007-4308}
    - [GFS2] Solve journaling/{release|invalidate}page issues
    - [x86_64] syscall vulnerability CVE-2007-4573}
    - [GFS2] Fix i_cache stale entry
    - [GFS2] deadlock running revolver load with lock_nolock

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

These updated packages fix the following security issues :

  - a flaw in the hypervisor for hosts running on Itanium     architectures allowed an Intel VTi domain to read     arbitrary physical memory from other Intel VTi domains,     which could make information available to unauthorized     users. (CVE-2007-6207, Important)

  - two buffer overflow flaws were found in ISDN subsystem.
    A local unprivileged user could use these flaws to cause     a denial of service. (CVE-2007-5938: Important,     CVE-2007-6063: Moderate)

  - a possible NULL pointer dereference was found in the     subsystem used for showing CPU information, as used by     CHRP systems on PowerPC architectures. This may have     allowed a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of     service (crash). (CVE-2007-6694, Moderate)

  - a flaw was found in the handling of zombie processes. A     local user could create processes that would not be     properly reaped, possibly causing a denial of service.
    (CVE-2006-6921, Moderate)

As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs :

  - a bug was found in the Linux kernel audit subsystem.
    When the audit daemon was setup to log the execve system     call with a large number of arguments, the kernel could     run out of memory, causing a kernel panic.

  - on IBM System z architectures, using the IBM Hardware     Management Console to toggle IBM FICON channel path ids     (CHPID) caused a file ID miscompare, possibly causing     data corruption.

  - when running the IA-32 Execution Layer (IA-32EL) or a     Java VM on Itanium architectures, a bug in the address     translation in the hypervisor caused the wrong address     to be registered, causing Dom0 to hang.

  - on Itanium architectures, frequent Corrected Platform     Error errors may have caused the hypervisor to hang.

  - when enabling a CPU without hot plug support, routines     for checking the presence of the CPU were missing. The     CPU tried to access its own resources, causing a kernel     panic.

  - after updating to kernel-2.6.18-53.el5, a bug in the     CCISS driver caused the HP Array Configuration Utility     CLI to become unstable, possibly causing a system hang,     or a kernel panic.

  - a bug in NFS directory caching could have caused     different hosts to have different views of NFS     directories.

  - on Itanium architectures, the Corrected Machine Check     Interrupt masked hot-added CPUs as disabled.

  - when running Oracle database software on the Intel 64     and AMD64 architectures, if an SGA larger than 4GB was     created, and had hugepages allocated to it, the     hugepages were not freed after database shutdown.

  - in a clustered environment, when two or more NFS clients     had the same logical volume mounted, and one of them     modified a file on the volume, NULL characters may have     been inserted, possibly causing data corruption.

These updated packages resolve several severe issues in the lpfc driver :

  - a system hang after LUN discovery.

  - a general fault protection, a NULL pointer dereference,     or slab corruption could occur while running a debug on     the kernel.

  - the inability to handle kernel paging requests in     'lpfc_get_scsi_buf'.

  - erroneous structure references caused certain FC     discovery routines to reference and change     'lpfc_nodelist' structures, even after they were freed.

  - the lpfc driver failed to interpret certain fields     correctly, causing tape backup software to fail. Tape     drives reported 'Illegal Request'.

  - the lpfc driver did not clear structures correctly,     resulting in SCSI I/Os being rejected by targets, and     causing errors.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0154 advisory.

    [2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.el5]
     - [NET] Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 (John Sobecki) [orabug      6045759]
     - [NET] Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump (Michael Chan) [orabug 6219364]
     - [MM] Fix alloc_pages_node() static `nid' race made kernel crash (Joe      Jin) [orabug 6187457]
     - [splice] Fix bad unlock_page() in error case  (Jens Axboe) [orabug      6263574]
     - [dio] fix error-path crashes (Linus Torvalds) [orabug 6242289]

     [2.6.18-53.1.14.el5]
     - merge from 2.6.18-53.1.13 to 2.6.18-53.1.12
     - [nfs] potential file corruption issue when writing (Jeff Layton ) [432078]
     - [ppc] chrp: fix possible strncmp NULL pointer usage (Vitaly Mayatskikh      ) [396821]
     - [isdn] i4l: fix memory overruns (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [425171]
     - [isdn] fix possible isdn_net buffer overflows (Aristeu Rozanski )      [392151] {CVE-2007-6063}
     - [mm] hugepages: leak due to pagetable page sharing (Larry Woodman )      [431522]
     - [net] NULL dereference in iwl driver (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [401421]      {CVE-2007-5938}
     - [misc] Denial of service with wedged processes (Jerome Marchand ) [221403]
     - [xen] ia64: hvm guest memory range checking (Jarod Wilson ) [408701]

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.

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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

These updated packages fix the following security issues :

* a flaw in the hypervisor for hosts running on Itanium architectures allowed an Intel VTi domain to read arbitrary physical memory from other Intel VTi domains, which could make information available to unauthorized users. (CVE-2007-6207, Important)

* two buffer overflow flaws were found in ISDN subsystem. A local unprivileged user could use these flaws to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2007-5938: Important, CVE-2007-6063: Moderate)

* a possible NULL pointer dereference was found in the subsystem used for showing CPU information, as used by CHRP systems on PowerPC architectures. This may have allowed a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service (crash). (CVE-2007-6694, Moderate)

* a flaw was found in the handling of zombie processes. A local user could create processes that would not be properly reaped, possibly causing a denial of service. (CVE-2006-6921, Moderate)

As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs :

* a bug was found in the Linux kernel audit subsystem. When the audit daemon was setup to log the execve system call with a large number of arguments, the kernel could run out of memory, causing a kernel panic.

* on IBM System z architectures, using the IBM Hardware Management Console to toggle IBM FICON channel path ids (CHPID) caused a file ID miscompare, possibly causing data corruption.

* when running the IA-32 Execution Layer (IA-32EL) or a Java VM on Itanium architectures, a bug in the address translation in the hypervisor caused the wrong address to be registered, causing Dom0 to hang.

* on Itanium architectures, frequent Corrected Platform Error errors may have caused the hypervisor to hang.

* when enabling a CPU without hot plug support, routines for checking the presence of the CPU were missing. The CPU tried to access its own resources, causing a kernel panic.

* after updating to kernel-2.6.18-53.el5, a bug in the CCISS driver caused the HP Array Configuration Utility CLI to become unstable, possibly causing a system hang, or a kernel panic.

* a bug in NFS directory caching could have caused different hosts to have different views of NFS directories.

* on Itanium architectures, the Corrected Machine Check Interrupt masked hot-added CPUs as disabled.

* when running Oracle database software on the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures, if an SGA larger than 4GB was created, and had hugepages allocated to it, the hugepages were not freed after database shutdown.

* in a clustered environment, when two or more NFS clients had the same logical volume mounted, and one of them modified a file on the volume, NULL characters may have been inserted, possibly causing data corruption.

These updated packages resolve several severe issues in the lpfc driver :

* a system hang after LUN discovery.

* a general fault protection, a NULL pointer dereference, or slab corruption could occur while running a debug on the kernel.

* the inability to handle kernel paging requests in 'lpfc_get_scsi_buf'.

* erroneous structure references caused certain FC discovery routines to reference and change 'lpfc_nodelist' structures, even after they were freed.

* the lpfc driver failed to interpret certain fields correctly, causing tape backup software to fail. Tape drives reported 'Illegal Request'.

* the lpfc driver did not clear structures correctly, resulting in SCSI I/Os being rejected by targets, and causing errors.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - fix utrace dead_engine ops race

  - fix ptrace_attach leak

  - CVE-2007-5093: kernel PWC driver DoS

  - CVE-2007-6282: IPSec ESP kernel panics

  - CVE-2007-6712: kernel: infinite loop in highres timers     (kernel hang)

  - CVE-2008-1615: kernel: ptrace: Unprivileged crash on     x86_64 %cs corruption

  - CVE-2008-1294: kernel: setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPUINFO) with     zero value doesn't inherit properly across children

  - CVE-2008-2136: kernel: sit memory leak

  - CVE-2008-2812: kernel: NULL ptr dereference in multiple     network drivers due to missing checks in tty code

  - restore     linux-2.6-x86-clear-df-flag-for-signal-handlers.patch

  - restore linux-2.6-utrace.patch /     linux-2.6-xen-utrace.patch

  - Kernel security erratas for OVM 2.1.2 from bz#5932 :

  - CVE-2007-6063: isdn: fix possible isdn_net buffer     overflows

  - CVE-2007-3104 Null pointer to an inode in a dentry can     cause an oops in sysfs_readdir

  - CVE-2008-0598: write system call vulnerability

  - CVE-2008-1375: kernel: race condition in dnotify

  - CVE-2008-0001: kernel: filesystem corruption by     unprivileged user via directory truncation

  - CVE-2008-2358: dccp: sanity check feature length

  - CVE-2007-5938: NULL dereference in iwl driver

  - RHSA-2008:0508: kernel: [x86_64] The string instruction     version didn't zero the output on exception.

  - kernel: clear df flag for signal handlers

  - fs: missing dput in do_lookup error leaks dentries

  - sysfs: fix condition check in sysfs_drop_dentry

  - sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry

  - ieee80211: off-by-two integer underflow

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
284402	MiracleLinux 3 : kernel-2.6.18-53.11AXS3 (AXSA:2008-150:05)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	1/14/2026	2/12/2026	high
60370	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	8/1/2012	1/14/2021	high
67659	Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2008-0154)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	2/9/2026	high
43674	CentOS 4 / 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0154)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	1/6/2010	1/4/2021	high
79447	OracleVM 2.1 : kernel (OVMSA-2008-2005)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	11/26/2014	1/14/2021	high
31388	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2008:0154)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	3/7/2008	1/14/2021	high

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