The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.176-91.338. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-022 advisory.

    2024-12-05: CVE-2022-48757 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48760 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48754 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2021-47619 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48747 was added to this advisory.

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    i40e: Fix queues reservation for XDP (CVE-2021-47619)

    A random memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's GPU i915 kernel driver functionality in the     way a user may run malicious code on the GPU. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-0330)

    The cgroup release_agent is called with call_usermodehelper. The function call_usermodehelper starts the     release_agent with a full set of capabilities. Therefore require capabilities when setting the     release_agent. (CVE-2022-0492)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    block: Fix wrong offset in bio_truncate() (CVE-2022-48747)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    phylib: fix potential use-after-free (CVE-2022-48754)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: fix information leakage in /proc/net/ptype (CVE-2022-48757)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    USB: core: Fix hang in usb_kill_urb by adding memory barriers (CVE-2022-48760)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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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Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2022-022)

high Nessus Plugin ID 160452

Version 1.10