The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.166-111.163. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2024-052 advisory.

    2024-09-26: CVE-2024-46763 was added to this advisory.

    2024-09-26: CVE-2024-46707 was added to this advisory.

    2024-09-26: CVE-2024-46689 was added to this advisory.

    2024-09-26: CVE-2024-46679 was added to this advisory.

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

    ata: libata-core: Fix null pointer dereference on error (CVE-2024-41098)

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

    ethtool: check device is present when getting link settings (CVE-2024-46679)

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

    soc: qcom: cmd-db: Map shared memory as WC, not WB (CVE-2024-46689)

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

    KVM: arm64: Make ICC_*SGI*_EL1 undef in the absence of a vGICv3 (CVE-2024-46707)

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

    fou: Fix null-ptr-deref in GRO. (CVE-2024-46763)

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-5.15-2024-052)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207410

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Version 1.2 Sep 27, 2024, 10:13 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2024-41098,CVE-2024-46679,CVE-2024-46689,CVE-2024-46707,CVE-2024-46763") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-41098" to "CVE-2024-46763") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202409272213
Version 1.1 Sep 19, 2024, 3:20 AM New Plugin Feed: 202409190320