The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.57-29.131. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-068 advisory.

    Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate is unused by     its CNA. Notes: none. (CVE-2022-23816)

    A flaw was found in hw. Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong     branch type, potentially leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2022-23825)

    Non-transparent sharing of return predictor targets between contexts in some Intel(R) Processors may allow     an authorized user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-26373)

    A flaw was found in hw. The unprotected alternative channel of return branch target prediction in some     Intel(R) Processors may allow an authorized user to enable information disclosure via local access.
    (CVE-2022-28693)

    A flaw was found in hw. Mis-trained branch predictions for return instructions may allow arbitrary     speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions. (CVE-2022-29900)

    Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their     retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can     hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain     microarchitecture-dependent conditions. (CVE-2022-29901)

    A memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's XEN hypervisor for the virtual machine. This flaw     allows a local user to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.
    (CVE-2022-36123)

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

    vt: fix memory overlapping when deleting chars in the buffer (CVE-2022-48627)

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

    x86/speculation: Fill RSB on vmexit for IBRS (CVE-2022-49611)

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

    nexthop: Fix data-races around nexthop_compat_mode. (CVE-2022-49629)

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

    raw: Fix a data-race around sysctl_raw_l3mdev_accept. (CVE-2022-49631)

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

    icmp: Fix data-races around sysctl_icmp_echo_enable_probe. (CVE-2022-49633)

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

    icmp: Fix data-races around sysctl. (CVE-2022-49638)

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

    sysctl: Fix data races in proc_douintvec_minmax(). (CVE-2022-49640)

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

    cgroup: Use separate src/dst nodes when preloading css_sets for migration (CVE-2022-49647)

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 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-068)

high Nessus Plugin ID 232916

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Version 1.3 Mar 28, 2025, 7:34 PM CEA reference Plugin Feed: 202503281934
Version 1.2 Mar 27, 2025, 11:10 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2022-23816,CVE-2022-23825,CVE-2022-26373,CVE-2022-28693,CVE-2022-29900,CVE-2022-29901,CVE-2022-36123,CVE-2022-48627,CVE-2022-49611,CVE-2022-49629,CVE-2022-49631,CVE-2022-49633,CVE-2022-49638,CVE-2022-49640,CVE-2022-49647") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 2.1) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2022-49640" to "CVE-2022-29900") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2022-36123") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2022-36123, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Detection (updated detection logic) Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202503271110
Version 1.1 Mar 20, 2025, 7:47 AM New Plugin Feed: 202503200747