The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0925 advisory.

    This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify     the code of a running kernel.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it (CVE-2021-4083)

    * kernel: possible privileges escalation due to missing TLB flush (CVE-2022-0330)

    * kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation (CVE-2022-0492)

    * kernel: failing usercopy allows for use-after-free exploitation (CVE-2022-22942)

    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 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2022:0925)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158951

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