The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.181-99.354. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-023 advisory.

    AMD recommends using a software mitigation for this issue, which the kernel is enabling by default. The     Linux kernel will use the generic retpoline software mitigation, instead of the specialized AMD one, on     AMD instances (*5a*). This is done by default, and no administrator action is needed. (CVE-2021-26341)

    AMD recommends using a software mitigation for this issue, which the kernel is enabling by default. The     Linux kernel will use the generic retpoline software mitigation, instead of the specialized AMD one, on     AMD instances (*5a*). This is done by default, and no administrator action is needed. (CVE-2021-26401)

    An unprivileged write to the file handler flaw in the Linux kernel's control groups and namespaces     subsystem was found in the way users have access to some less privileged process that are controlled by     cgroups and have higher privileged parent process. It is actually both for cgroup2 and cgroup1 versions of     control groups. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the     system. (CVE-2021-4197)

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

    PCI: pciehp: Fix infinite loop in IRQ handler upon power fault (CVE-2021-47617)

    Non-transparent sharing of branch predictor selectors between contexts in some Intel(R) Processors may     allow an authorized user to potentially enable information disclosure. (CVE-2022-0001)

    Non-transparent sharing of branch predictor within a context in some Intel(r) Processors may allow an     authorized user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-0002)

    A stack overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's TIPC protocol functionality in the way a user sends     a packet with malicious content where the number of domain member nodes is higher than the 64 allowed.
    This flaw allows a remote user to crash the system or possibly escalate their privileges if they have     access to the TIPC network. (CVE-2022-0435)

    The Amazon Linux kernel now enables, by default, a software mitigation for this issue, on all ARM-based     EC2 instance types. (CVE-2022-23960)

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet     Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.
    (CVE-2022-2964)

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

    tipc: improve size validations for received domain records (CVE-2022-48711)

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

    iommu/vt-d: Fix potential memory leak in intel_setup_irq_remapping() (CVE-2022-48724)

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

    btrfs: fix deadlock between quota disable and qgroup rescan worker (CVE-2022-48734)

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

    rtnetlink: make sure to refresh master_dev/m_ops in __rtnl_newlink() (CVE-2022-48742)

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

    net: amd-xgbe: Fix skb data length underflow (CVE-2022-48743)

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

    Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj (CVE-2022-48775)

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

    vsock: remove vsock from connected table when connect is interrupted by a signal (CVE-2022-48786)

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

    nvme-rdma: fix possible use-after-free in transport error_recovery work (CVE-2022-48788)

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

    nvme: fix a possible use-after-free in controller reset during load (CVE-2022-48790)

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

    perf: Fix list corruption in perf_cgroup_switch() (CVE-2022-48799)

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

    vt_ioctl: fix array_index_nospec in vt_setactivate (CVE-2022-48804)

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

    net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup (CVE-2022-48805)

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

    net: fix a memleak when uncloning an skb dst and its metadata (CVE-2022-48809)

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

    ipmr,ip6mr: acquire RTNL before calling ip[6]mr_free_table() on failure path (CVE-2022-48810)

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

    scsi: qedf: Fix refcount issue when LOGO is received during TMF (CVE-2022-48823)

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, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-023 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2022-023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161456

Version 1.10

Version 1.8

Version 1.6

Version 1.10 Nov 7, 2025, 11:55 PM Exploit attributes Plugin Feed: 202511072355
Version 1.8 Dec 11, 2024, 3:04 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2021-4197,CVE-2021-47617,CVE-2021-26341,CVE-2021-26401,CVE-2022-0001,CVE-2022-0002,CVE-2022-0435,CVE-2022-23960,CVE-2022-2964,CVE-2022-48711,CVE-2022-48724,CVE-2022-48734,CVE-2022-48742,CVE-2022-48743,CVE-2022-48775,CVE-2022-48786,CVE-2022-48788,CVE-2022-48790,CVE-2022-48799,CVE-2022-48804,CVE-2022-48805,CVE-2022-48809,CVE-2022-48823") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412111504
Version 1.6 Sep 5, 2023, 10:10 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2021-4197,CVE-2021-26341,CVE-2021-26401,CVE-2022-0001,CVE-2022-0002,CVE-2022-0435,CVE-2022-23960,CVE-2022-2964") Plugin metadata Plugin requirements Detection Plugin Feed: 202309052210