The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.164-108.161. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2024-050 advisory.

    2024-09-12: CVE-2024-36484 was added to this advisory.

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

    2024-08-28: CVE-2024-41090 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-41055 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-2024-41091 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.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-41019 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2024-41009 was added to this advisory.

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

    scsi: core: Fix a use-after-free (CVE-2022-48666)

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

    net: relax socket state check at accept time. (CVE-2024-36484)

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

    bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf (CVE-2024-41009)

    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:

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

    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-5.15-2024-050)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 205728

Version 1.6