The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10943 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: selinux,smack: don't bypass permissions check in inode_setsecctx hook (CVE-2024-46695)

    * kernel: net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO (CVE-2024-49949)

    * kernel: blk-rq-qos: fix crash on rq_qos_wait vs. rq_qos_wake_function race (CVE-2024-50082)

    * kernel: arm64: probes: Remove broken LDR (literal) uprobe support (CVE-2024-50099)

    * kernel: xfrm: fix one more kernel-infoleak in algo dumping (CVE-2024-50110)

    * kernel: xfrm: validate new SA's prefixlen using SA family when sel.family is unset (CVE-2024-50142)

    * kernel: irqchip/gic-v4: Don't allow a VMOVP on a dying VPE (CVE-2024-50192)

    * kernel: netfilter: nf_reject_ipv6: fix potential crash in nf_send_reset6() (CVE-2024-50256)

    * kernel: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans (CVE-2024-50264)

    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 (RHSA-2024:10943)

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