It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-779 advisory.

    2025-01-06: CVE-2024-44974 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-06: CVE-2024-46763 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-06: CVE-2024-46679 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-06: CVE-2024-41098 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-06: CVE-2024-44946 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-06: CVE-2024-46707 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-06: CVE-2024-46711 was added to this advisory.

    2025-01-06: CVE-2024-46689 was added to this advisory.

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    PCI/MSI: Fix UAF in msi_capability_init (CVE-2024-41096)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ata: libata-core: Fix null pointer dereference on error (CVE-2024-41098)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    kcm: Serialise kcm_sendmsg() for the same socket. (CVE-2024-44946)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    mptcp: pm: avoid possible UaF when selecting endp (CVE-2024-44974)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ethtool: check device is present when getting link settings (CVE-2024-46679)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    soc: qcom: cmd-db: Map shared memory as WC, not WB (CVE-2024-46689)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    KVM: arm64: Make ICC_*SGI*_EL1 undef in the absence of a vGICv3 (CVE-2024-46707)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    mptcp: pm: fix ID 0 endp usage after multiple re-creations (CVE-2024-46711)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    fou: Fix null-ptr-deref in GRO. (CVE-2024-46763)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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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Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2024-779)

high Nessus Plugin ID 212342

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Jan 7, 2025, 2:51 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2024-40972,CVE-2024-41096,CVE-2024-41098,CVE-2024-44946,CVE-2024-44974,CVE-2024-46679,CVE-2024-46689,CVE-2024-46707,CVE-2024-46711,CVE-2024-46763") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-41096" to "CVE-2024-44974") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202501070251
Version 1.1 Dec 11, 2024, 3:04 PM New Plugin Feed: 202412111504