The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.274-187.369. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2024-079 advisory.

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

    vt: fix memory overlapping when deleting chars in the buffer (CVE-2022-48627)

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

    scsi: qla2xxx: Fix command flush on cable pull (CVE-2024-26931)

    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:

    nilfs2: prevent kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc() (CVE-2024-26955)

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

    nilfs2: fix failure to detect DAT corruption in btree and direct mappings (CVE-2024-26956)

    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:

    USB: usb-storage: Prevent divide-by-0 error in isd200_ata_command (CVE-2024-27059)

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-5.4-2024-079)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205727

Version 1.1