The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4531 advisory.

    This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify     the code of a running kernel.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: use-after-free in l2cap_connect and l2cap_le_connect_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c     (CVE-2022-42896)

    * kernel: tcindex: use-after-free vulnerability in traffic control index filter allows privilege     escalation (CVE-2023-1281)

    * kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (CVE-2023-1829)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

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RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2023:4531)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179454

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Version 1.3 Nov 8, 2024, 8:20 AM 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: 202411080820
Version 1.2 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.1 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262318
Version 1.0 Aug 8, 2023, 8:34 PM New Plugin Feed: 202308082034
Version 1.0 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262100