The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:7003 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: 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-rt (RHSA-2024:7003)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207659

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.1 Sep 24, 2024, 1:22 PM New Plugin Feed: 202409241322