The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6745 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with     extremely high determinism requirements.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Bluetooth: af_bluetooth: Fix deadlock (CVE-2024-26886)

    * kernel: crypto: qat - resolve race condition during AER recovery (CVE-2024-26974)

    * kernel: tty: n_gsm: require CAP_NET_ADMIN to attach N_GSM0710 ldisc (CVE-2023-52880)

    * kernel: cpufreq: exit() callback is optional (CVE-2024-38615)

    * kernel: cppc_cpufreq: Fix possible null pointer dereference (CVE-2024-38573)

    * kernel: scsi: qedf: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated (CVE-2024-38559)

    * kernel: ACPICA: Revert ACPICA: avoid Info: mapping multiple BARs. Your kernel is fine.
    (CVE-2024-40984)

    * kernel: sched/deadline: Fix task_struct reference leak (CVE-2024-41023)

    * kernel: mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed (CVE-2024-41031)

    * kernel: mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed (CVE-2024-42241)

    * kernel: mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray (CVE-2024-42243)

    * kernel: net, sunrpc: Remap EPERM in case of connection failure in xs_tcp_setup_socket (CVE-2024-42246)

    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 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:6745)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207378

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Nov 8, 2024, 8:20 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411080820
Version 1.1 Sep 18, 2024, 10:58 AM New Plugin Feed: 202409181058