The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8162 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Local information disclosure on Intel(R) Atom(R) processors (CVE-2023-28746)

    * kernel: netfilter: nft_flow_offload: reset dst in route object after setting up flow (CVE-2024-27403)

    * kernel: Revert net/mlx5: Block entering switchdev mode with ns inconsistency (CVE-2023-52658)

    * kernel: dmaengine: idxd: Fix oops during rmmod on single-CPU platforms (CVE-2024-35989)

    * kernel: hwmon: (w83792d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field     (CVE-2021-47385)

    * kernel: mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect (CVE-2024-36889)

    * kernel: net: sched: sch_multiq: fix possible OOB write in multiq_tune() (CVE-2024-36978)

    * kernel: net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore (CVE-2024-38556)

    * kernel: KVM: SVM: WARN on vNMI + NMI window iff NMIs are outright masked (CVE-2024-39483)

    * kernel: ionic: fix use after netif_napi_del() (CVE-2024-39502)

    * kernel: xfrm6: check ip6_dst_idev() return value in xfrm6_get_saddr() (CVE-2024-40959)

    * kernel: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush (CVE-2024-42079)

    * kernel: sched: act_ct: take care of padding in struct zones_ht_key (CVE-2024-42272)

    * kernel: tipc: Return non-zero value from tipc_udp_addr2str() on error (CVE-2024-42284)

    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 (RHSA-2024:8162)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209096

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Version 1.3 Mar 7, 2025, 1:27 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Reference Plugin Feed: 202503071327
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") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.1 Oct 16, 2024, 8:39 AM New Plugin Feed: 202410160839