The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.281-193.378. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2024-080 advisory.

    2024-08-28: CVE-2024-42154 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-41059 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-41020 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-41049 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-41041 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-41035 was added to this advisory.

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

    SUNRPC: Fix RPC client cleaned up the freed pipefs dentries (CVE-2023-52803)

    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:

    hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name (CVE-2024-41059)

    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:

    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 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2024-080)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 205699

Version 1.5

Version 1.3

Version 1.5 Aug 30, 2024, 7:43 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202408300743
Version 1.3 Aug 29, 2024, 7:18 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202408290718