The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.241-184.433. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1696 advisory.

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, where a BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel     memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack. This issue occurs when the protection mechanism     neglects the possibility of uninitialized memory locations on the BPF stack. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to confidentiality. (CVE-2021-34556)

    A flaw in the Linux kernel allows a privileged BPF program to obtain sensitive information from kernel     memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel in the eBPF subsystem (CVE-2021-35477)

    A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. Missing size validations on inbound SCTP packets may allow     the kernel to read uninitialized memory. (CVE-2021-3655)

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

    igb: Fix use-after-free error during reset (CVE-2021-47301)

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

    dma-buf/sync_file: Don't leak fences on merge failure (CVE-2021-47305)

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

    scsi: libfc: Fix array index out of bound exception (CVE-2021-47308)

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

    net: validate lwtstate->data before returning from skb_tunnel_info() (CVE-2021-47309)

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

    net: qcom/emac: fix UAF in emac_remove (CVE-2021-47311)

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

    virtio-blk: Fix memory leak among suspend/resume procedure (CVE-2021-47319)

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

    nfs: fix acl memory leak of posix_acl_create() (CVE-2021-47320)

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

    jfs: fix GPF in diFree (CVE-2021-47340)

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

    dm btree remove: assign new_root only when removal succeeds (CVE-2021-47343)

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

    RDMA/cma: Fix rdma_resolve_route() memory leak (CVE-2021-47345)

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

    udf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in udf_symlink function (CVE-2021-47353)

    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3. lib/seq_buf.c has a seq_buf_putmem_hex buffer     overflow. (CVE-2023-28772)

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 (ALAS-2021-1696)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152238

Version 1.8