The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.156-102.160. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2024-049 advisory.

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

    scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression (CVE-2024-26935)

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

    wireguard: netlink: access device through ctx instead of peer (CVE-2024-26950)

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

    wireguard: netlink: check for dangling peer via is_dead instead of empty list (CVE-2024-26951)

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

    nfs: fix UAF in direct writes (CVE-2024-26958)

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

    mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff() (CVE-2024-26960)

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

    mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del (CVE-2024-26961)

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

    usb: xhci: Add error handling in xhci_map_urb_for_dma (CVE-2024-26964)

    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:

    pci_iounmap(): Fix MMIO mapping leak (CVE-2024-26977)

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-5.15-2024-049)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205715

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 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 Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.1 Aug 17, 2024, 10:30 AM New Plugin Feed: 202408171030