The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.348-187.562. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2024-1942 advisory.

    2024-07-31: CVE-2024-27020 was added to this advisory.

    2024-07-31: CVE-2024-26976 was added to this advisory.

    2024-07-03: CVE-2023-1077 was added to this advisory.

    2024-07-03: CVE-2021-47110 was removed from this advisory.

    kernel: Type confusion in pick_next_rt_entity(), which can result in memory corruption. (CVE-2023-1077)

    An issue was discovered in arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 6.2.8. nVMX on x86_64     lacks consistency checks for CR0 and CR4. (CVE-2023-30456)

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

    KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed (CVE-2024-26976)

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

    netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_expr_type_get() (CVE-2024-27020)

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 AMI : kernel (ALAS-2024-1942)

high Nessus Plugin ID 200923

Version 1.3