It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-679 advisory.

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

    ima: Avoid blocking in RCU read-side critical section (CVE-2024-40947)

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

    fs/ntfs3: Validate ff offset (CVE-2024-41019)

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

    filelock: Fix fcntl/close race recovery compat path (CVE-2024-41020)

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

    USB: core: Fix duplicate endpoint bug by clearing reserved bits in the descriptor (CVE-2024-41035)

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

    udp: Set SOCK_RCU_FREE earlier in udp_lib_get_port(). (CVE-2024-41041)

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

    filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode (CVE-2024-41049)

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

    cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse (CVE-2024-41050)

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

    mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid() (CVE-2024-41055)

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

    cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie() (CVE-2024-41057)

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

    cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume() (CVE-2024-41058)

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

    nvme: avoid double free special payload (CVE-2024-41073)

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

    null_blk: fix validation of block size (CVE-2024-41077)

    kernel: virtio-net: tap: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41090)

    kernel: virtio-net: tun: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41091)

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

    cdrom: rearrange last_media_change check to avoid unintentional overflow (CVE-2024-42136)

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

    tcp_metrics: validate source addr length (CVE-2024-42154)

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 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2024-679)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205105

Version 1.9