The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:11486 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Bluetooth: l2cap: fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_chan_timeout (CVE-2024-27399)

    * kernel: bpf: Add BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SKB attach type enforcement in BPF_LINK_CREATE (CVE-2024-38564)

    * kernel: bpf: Fix a kernel verifier crash in stacksafe() (CVE-2024-45020)

    * kernel: nfsd: ensure that nfsd4_fattr_args.context is zeroed out (CVE-2024-46697)

    * kernel: bpf: Fix use-after-free in bpf_uprobe_multi_link_attach() (CVE-2024-47675)

    * kernel: bpf: Fix a sdiv overflow issue (CVE-2024-49888)

    * 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: Bluetooth: SCO: Fix UAF on sco_sock_timeout (CVE-2024-50125)

    * kernel: Bluetooth: ISO: Fix UAF on iso_sock_timeout (CVE-2024-50124)

    * kernel: KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory (CVE-2024-50115)

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

    * kernel: Bluetooth: bnep: fix wild-memory-access in proto_unregister (CVE-2024-50148)

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

    * kernel: Bluetooth: hci: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_read_supported_codecs (CVE-2024-50255)

    * kernel: sched/numa: Fix the potential null pointer dereference in task_numa_work() (CVE-2024-50223)

    * kernel: bpf: Fix out-of-bounds write in trie_get_next_key() (CVE-2024-50262)

    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-2024:11486)

high Nessus Plugin ID 213198

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Version 1.2 Dec 25, 2024, 1:01 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202412250101
Version 1.1 Dec 19, 2024, 6:46 AM New Plugin Feed: 202412190646