The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8157 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: hwmon: (w83792d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field     (CVE-2021-47385)

    * kernel: net/sched: taprio: extend minimum interval restriction to entire cycle too (CVE-2024-36244)

    * kernel: xfs: fix log recovery buffer allocation for the legacy h_size fixup (CVE-2024-39472)

    * kernel: firmware: cs_dsp: Use strnlen() on name fields in V1 wmfw files (CVE-2024-41056)

    * kernel: ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak (CVE-2024-41066)

    * kernel: pinctrl: fix deadlock in create_pinctrl() when handling -EPROBE_DEFER (CVE-2024-42090)

    * 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-2024:8157)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209099

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