The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.271-184.369. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2024-068 advisory.

    2024-09-12: CVE-2024-35807 was added to this advisory.

    2024-09-12: CVE-2024-27413 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26773 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26840 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26752 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26751 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26835 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26688 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26804 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26772 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26763 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26805 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26764 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26735 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26848 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26793 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26791 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-26845 was added to this advisory.

    2024-07-03: CVE-2023-52504 was added to this advisory.

    2024-07-03: CVE-2024-0841 was added to this advisory.

    2024-06-06: CVE-2024-27417 was added to this advisory.

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

    x86/alternatives: Disable KASAN in apply_alternatives() (CVE-2023-52504)

    A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the hugetlbfs_fill_super function in the Linux kernel     hugetlbfs (HugeTLB pages) functionality. This issue may allow a local user to crash the system or     potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2024-0841)

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

    fs,hugetlb: fix NULL pointer dereference in hugetlbs_fill_super (CVE-2024-26688)

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

    ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref (CVE-2024-26735)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Increase buffer size in     afs_update_volume_status() The max length of volume->vid value is 20 characters. So increase idbuf[] size     up to 24 to avoid overflow. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. [DH:
    Actually, it's 20 + NUL, so increase it to 24 and use snprintf()] (CVE-2024-26736)

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

    ARM: ep93xx: Add terminator to gpiod_lookup_table (CVE-2024-26751)

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

    l2tp: pass correct message length to ip6_append_data (CVE-2024-26752)

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

    dm-crypt: don't modify the data when using authenticated encryption (CVE-2024-26763)

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

    fs/aio: Restrict kiocb_set_cancel_fn() to I/O submitted via libaio (CVE-2024-26764)

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

    ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_find_by_goal() (CVE-2024-26772)

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

    ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_try_best_found() (CVE-2024-26773)

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

    btrfs: dev-replace: properly validate device names (CVE-2024-26791)

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

    gtp: fix use-after-free and null-ptr-deref in gtp_newlink() (CVE-2024-26793)

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

    net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth (CVE-2024-26804)

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

    netlink: Fix kernel-infoleak-after-free in __skb_datagram_iter (CVE-2024-26805)

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

    netfilter: nf_tables: set dormant flag on hook register failure (CVE-2024-26835)

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

    cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache() (CVE-2024-26840)

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

    scsi: target: core: Add TMF to tmr_list handling (CVE-2024-26845)

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

    afs: Fix endless loop in directory parsing (CVE-2024-26848)

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

    efi/capsule-loader: fix incorrect allocation size (CVE-2024-27413)

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

    ipv6: fix potential struct net leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr() (CVE-2024-27417)

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

    ext4: fix corruption during on-line resize (CVE-2024-35807)

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-5.4-2024-068)

high Nessus Plugin ID 198245

Version 1.5

Version 1.3

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Version 1.5 Sep 13, 2024, 3:37 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2023-52504,CVE-2024-0841,CVE-2024-26688,CVE-2024-26735,CVE-2024-26736,CVE-2024-26751,CVE-2024-26752,CVE-2024-26763,CVE-2024-26764,CVE-2024-26772,CVE-2024-26773,CVE-2024-26791,CVE-2024-26793,CVE-2024-26804,CVE-2024-26805,CVE-2024-26835,CVE-2024-26840,CVE-2024-26845,CVE-2024-26848,CVE-2024-27413,CVE-2024-27417,CVE-2024-35807") 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: 202409131537
Version 1.3 Jul 5, 2024, 2:41 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2023-52504,CVE-2024-0841,CVE-2024-26736,CVE-2024-27417") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-26736" to "CVE-2024-0841") CVSSv3 severity (based on None, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202407051441
Version 1.2 Jun 8, 2024, 3:36 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2024-26736,CVE-2024-27417") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406080336
Version 1.1 Jun 1, 2024, 5:45 AM New Plugin Feed: 202406010545