The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-4941 advisory.

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation,     denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2020-36311 A flaw was discovered in the KVM subsystem for AMD     CPUs, allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service by triggering destruction of a large SEV VM.
    CVE-2021-3609 Norbert Slusarek reported a race condition vulnerability in the CAN BCM networking protocol,     allowing a local attacker to escalate privileges. CVE-2021-33909 The Qualys Research Labs discovered a     size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the Linux kernel's filesystem layer. An unprivileged local     attacker able to create, mount, and then delete a deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds     1GB, can take advantage of this flaw for privilege escalation. Details can be found in the Qualys advisory     at https://www.qualys.com/2021/07/20/cve-2021-33909/sequoia-local-privilege-escalation-linux.txt     CVE-2021-34693 Norbert Slusarek discovered an information leak in the CAN BCM networking protocol. A local     attacker can take advantage of this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory. For the     stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 4.19.194-3. We recommend that you     upgrade your linux packages. For the detailed security status of linux please refer to its security     tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/linux

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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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Debian DSA-4941-1 : linux - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 151890

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Version 1.6 Jan 24, 2025, 9:25 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: 202501242125
Version 1.5 Mar 27, 2024, 7:16 PM Detection (Debian kernel vulns will now be evaluated against the running kernel version instead of the highest installed version) Plugin Feed: 202403271916