The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.29-27.128. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2024-055 advisory.

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

    locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in queued_write_lock_slowpath() (CVE-2021-46921)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2024-055)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194864

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 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: 202412120955
Version 1.0 May 1, 2024, 4:54 AM New Plugin Feed: 202405010454