The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.57-29.131. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-006 advisory.

    A flaw was found in hw. Mis-trained branch predictions for return instructions may allow arbitrary     speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions. (CVE-2022-23816)

    A flaw was found in hw. Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong     branch type, potentially leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2022-23825)

    A flaw was found in hw. In certain processors with Intel's Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation     (eIBRS) capabilities, soon after VM exit or IBPB command event, the linear address following the most     recent near CALL instruction prior to a VM exit may be used as the Return Stack Buffer (RSB) prediction.
    (CVE-2022-26373)

    A flaw was found in hw. The unprotected alternative channel of return branch target prediction in some     Intel(R) Processors may allow an authorized user to enable information disclosure via local access.
    (CVE-2022-28693)

    A flaw was found in hw. Mis-trained branch predictions for return instructions may allow arbitrary     speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions. (CVE-2022-29900)

    A flaw was found in hw. Non-transparent sharing of branch predictor targets between contexts in some     Intel(R) processors may potentially allow an authorized user to enable information disclosure via local     access. (CVE-2022-29901)

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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-5.15-2022-006)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164362

Version 1.7