The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5628 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails (CVE-2023-3609)

    * kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function     (CVE-2023-3776)

    * kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and     cls_route (CVE-2023-4128)

    * kernel: netfilter: NULL pointer dereference in nf_tables due to zeroed list head (CVE-2023-1095)

    * kernel: save/restore speculative MSRs during S3 suspend/resume (CVE-2023-1637)

    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.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * avoid unnecessary page fault retires on shared memory types (BZ#2221102)

    * [Hyper-V][RHEL-8] Fix VM crash/hang Issues due to fast VF add/remove events (BZ#2227261)

    * kernel-devel RPM cross-compiled by CKI contains host-arch scripts (BZ#2232139)

    * iavf: hang in iavf_remove() - SNO node hangs after running systemctl reboot (BZ#2232405)

    * netfilter: RHEL 8.8 phase 2 backports from upstream (BZ#2236818)

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 : kernel (RHSA-2023:5628)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182838

Version 1.3