The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6297 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: cxgb4: avoid accessing registers when clearing filters (CVE-2021-47138)

    * kernel: hv_netvsc: Fix race condition between netvsc_probe and netvsc_remove (CVE-2024-26698)

    * kernel: mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails (CVE-2022-48659)

    * kernel: Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero (CVE-2024-26982)

    * kernel: vt: fix unicode buffer corruption when deleting characters (CVE-2024-35823)

    * kernel: nvme-rdma: destroy cm id before destroy qp to avoid use after free (CVE-2021-47378)

    * kernel: userfaultfd: fix a race between writeprotect and exit_mmap() (CVE-2021-47461)

    * kernel: r8169: Fix possible ring buffer corruption on fragmented Tx packets. (CVE-2024-38586)

    * kernel: bpf: Add BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SKB attach type enforcement in BPF_LINK_CREATE (CVE-2024-38564)

    * kernel: bnxt_re: avoid shift undefined behavior in bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq (CVE-2024-38540)

    * kernel: iommu: Fix potential use-after-free during probe (CVE-2022-48796)

    * kernel: xfs: add bounds checking to xlog_recover_process_data (CVE-2024-41014)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:6297)

high Nessus Plugin ID 206593

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 5:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071729
Version 1.1 Sep 4, 2024, 6:29 PM New Plugin Feed: 202409041829