The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8617 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: cpu: intel: Native Branch History Injection (BHI) (CVE-2024-2201)

    * kernel: tcp: add sanity checks to rx zerocopy (CVE-2024-26640)

    * kernel: mptcp: fix data re-injection from stale subflow (CVE-2024-26826)

    * kernel: af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect() (CVE-2024-26923)

    * kernel: mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del (CVE-2024-26961)

    * kernel: scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression (CVE-2024-26935)

    * kernel: tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit (CVE-2021-47383)

    * 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: netfilter: nft_inner: validate mandatory meta and payload (CVE-2024-39504)

    * kernel: USB: class: cdc-wdm: Fix CPU lockup caused by excessive log messages (CVE-2024-40904)

    * kernel: mptcp: ensure snd_una is properly initialized on connect (CVE-2024-40931)

    * kernel: ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe() (CVE-2024-40960)

    * kernel: ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock (CVE-2024-40972)

    * kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7921s: fix potential hung tasks during chip recovery (CVE-2024-40977)

    * kernel: net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc() (CVE-2024-40995)

    * kernel: ext4: fix uninitialized ratelimit_state->lock access in __ext4_fill_super() (CVE-2024-40998)

    * kernel: netpoll: Fix race condition in netpoll_owner_active (CVE-2024-41005)

    * kernel: xfs: don't walk off the end of a directory data block (CVE-2024-41013)

    * kernel: xfs: add bounds checking to xlog_recover_process_data (CVE-2024-41014)

    * kernel: block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media (CVE-2024-43854)

    * kernel: netfilter: flowtable: initialise extack before use (CVE-2024-45018)

    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-2024:8617)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 209903

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Nov 6, 2024, 11:46 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Reference Plugin Feed: 202411062346
Version 1.2 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 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: 202411052132
Version 1.1 Oct 30, 2024, 1:33 PM New Plugin Feed: 202410301333