The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.201-111.359. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-028 advisory.

    Due to the small table perturb size, a memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel's TCP source port     generation algorithm in the net/ipv4/tcp.c function. This flaw allows an attacker to leak information and     may cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-1012)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in fs/ext4/namei.c:dx_insert_block() in the Linux kernel's filesystem sub-     component. This flaw allows a local attacker with a user privilege to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2022-1184)

    A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's Netfilter subsystem in     net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with user access to cause a privilege     escalation issue. (CVE-2022-1966)

    A flaw was found in hw. Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers for some Intel(r) Processors may     allow an authenticated user to enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21123)

    A flaw was found in hw. Incomplete cleanup of microarchitectural fill buffers on some Intel(r) Processors     may allow an authenticated user to enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21125)

    A flaw was found in hw. Incomplete cleanup in specific special register write operations for some     Intel Processors may allow an authenticated user to enable information disclosure via local access.
    (CVE-2022-21166)

    KGDB and KDB allow read and write access to kernel memory, and thus should be restricted during lockdown.
    An attacker with access to a serial port could trigger the debugger so it is important that the debugger     respect the lockdown mode when/if it is triggered. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and     Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). (CVE-2022-21499)

    net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux kernel through 5.18.1 allows a local user (able to create     user/net namespaces) to escalate privileges to root because an incorrect NFT_STATEFUL_EXPR check leads to     a use-after-free. (CVE-2022-32250)

    The Linux kernel before 5.17.9 allows TCP servers to identify clients by observing what source ports are     used. (CVE-2022-32296)

    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.18.3 on powerpc 32-bit platforms. There is a buffer     overflow in ptrace PEEKUSER and POKEUSER (aka PEEKUSR and POKEUSR) when accessing floating point     registers. (CVE-2022-32981)

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

    net: openvswitch: fix leak of nested actions (CVE-2022-49086)

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

    nbd: fix io hung while disconnecting device (CVE-2022-49297)

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

    ip_gre: test csum_start instead of transport header (CVE-2022-49340)

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

    net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init() (CVE-2022-49345)

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

    ext4: fix bug_on in ext4_writepages (CVE-2022-49347)

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

    ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_rename_dir_prepare (CVE-2022-49349)

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

    driver: base: fix UAF when driver_attach failed (CVE-2022-49385)

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

    ubi: ubi_create_volume: Fix use-after-free when volume creation failed (CVE-2022-49388)

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

    dlm: fix plock invalid read (CVE-2022-49407)

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

    bfq: Make sure bfqg for which we are queueing requests is online (CVE-2022-49411)

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

    bfq: Update cgroup information before merging bio (CVE-2022-49413)

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

    HID: elan: Fix potential double free in elan_input_configured (CVE-2022-49508)

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

    drm/virtio: fix NULL pointer dereference in virtio_gpu_conn_get_modes (CVE-2022-49532)

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

    netfilter: conntrack: re-fetch conntrack after insertion (CVE-2022-49561)

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

    ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa (CVE-2022-49708)

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

    ipv6: Fix signed integer overflow in l2tp_ip6_sendmsg (CVE-2022-49727)

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

    ata: libata-core: fix NULL pointer deref in ata_host_alloc_pinfo() (CVE-2022-49731)

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-5.4-2022-028)

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