The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:7002 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: x86/xen: Add some null pointer checking to smp.c (CVE-2024-26908)

    * kernel: TIPC message reassembly use-after-free remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-36886)

    * kernel: fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection() (CVE-2024-26993)

    * kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing (CVE-2024-41071)

    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-2024:7002)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207653

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 24, 2024, 1:22 PM New Plugin Feed: 202409241322