The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.249-163.359. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-049 advisory.

    2023-08-03: CVE-2023-3609 was added to this advisory.

    A use-after-free flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing named and     anonymous sets in batch requests, which can lead to performing arbitrary reads and writes in kernel     memory. This flaw allows a local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to crash or potentially escalate their     privileges on the system. (CVE-2023-3117)

    Linux Kernel nftables Out-Of-Bounds Read/Write Vulnerability; nft_byteorder poorly handled vm register     contents when CAP_NET_ADMIN is in any user or network namespace (CVE-2023-35001)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_u32 component can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation.

    If tcf_change_indev() fails, u32_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or     decrementing the reference counter in tcf_bind_filter(). If an attacker can control the reference counter     and set it to zero, they can cause the reference to be freed, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 04c55383fa5689357bcdd2c8036725a55ed632bc. (CVE-2023-3609)

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-5.4-2023-049)

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