It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-148 advisory.

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

    KVM: VMX: Do _all_ initialization before exposing /dev/kvm to userspace (CVE-2022-49932)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel Performance Events system can be exploited to achieve     local privilege escalation.

    The perf_group_detach function did not check the event's siblings' attach_state before calling     add_event_to_groups(), but remove_on_exec made it possible to call list_del_event() on before detaching     from their group, making it possible to use a dangling pointer causing a use-after-free vulnerability.

    We recommend upgrading past commit fd0815f632c24878e325821943edccc7fde947a2. (CVE-2023-2235)

    do_tls_getsockopt in net/tls/tls_main.c in the Linux kernel through 6.2.6 lacks a lock_sock call, leading     to a race condition (with a resultant use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference). (CVE-2023-28466)

    An issue was discovered in arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 6.2.8. nVMX on x86_64     lacks consistency checks for CR0 and CR4. (CVE-2023-30456)

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

    ACPI: PPTT: Fix to avoid sleep in the atomic context when PPTT is absent (CVE-2023-53070)

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

    ftrace: Fix invalid address access in lookup_rec() when index is 0 (CVE-2023-53075)

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

    ocfs2: fix data corruption after failed write (CVE-2023-53081)

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

    drm/shmem-helper: Remove another errant put in error path (CVE-2023-53084)

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

    drm/i915/active: Fix misuse of non-idle barriers as fence trackers (CVE-2023-53087)

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

    ext4: fix task hung in ext4_xattr_delete_inode (CVE-2023-53089)

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

    ext4: update s_journal_inum if it changes after journal replay (CVE-2023-53091)

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

    drm/ttm: Fix a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2023-53095)

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

    interconnect: fix mem leak when freeing nodes (CVE-2023-53096)

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

    ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_update_inline_data (CVE-2023-53100)

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

    ext4: zero i_disksize when initializing the bootloader inode (CVE-2023-53101)

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

    bonding: restore bond's IFF_SLAVE flag if a non-eth dev enslave fails (CVE-2023-53103)

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

    veth: Fix use after free in XDP_REDIRECT (CVE-2023-53107)

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

    net: tunnels: annotate lockless accesses to dev->needed_headroom (CVE-2023-53109)

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

    loop: Fix use-after-free issues (CVE-2023-53111)

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

    drm/i915/sseu: fix max_subslices array-index-out-of-bounds access (CVE-2023-53112)

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

    fs: prevent out-of-bounds array speculation when closing a file descriptor (CVE-2023-53117)

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

    tcp: tcp_make_synack() can be called from process context (CVE-2023-53121)

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

    PCI: s390: Fix use-after-free of PCI resources with per-function hotplug (CVE-2023-53123)

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

    SUNRPC: Fix a server shutdown leak (CVE-2023-53131)

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

    bpf, sockmap: Fix an infinite loop error when len is 0 in tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser() (CVE-2023-53133)

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

    af_unix: fix struct pid leaks in OOB support (CVE-2023-53136)

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

    ext4: Fix possible corruption when moving a directory (CVE-2023-53137)

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

    scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier (CVE-2023-53140)

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

    ila: do not generate empty messages in ila_xlat_nl_cmd_get_mapping() (CVE-2023-53141)

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

    ext4: fix another off-by-one fsmap error on 1k block filesystems (CVE-2023-53143)

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

    x86/resctrl: Clear staged_config[] before and after it is used (CVE-2023-53169)

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 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-148)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173854

Version 1.7

Version 1.4

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Version 1.7 Sep 26, 2025, 3:17 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2022-49932,CVE-2023-2235,CVE-2023-28466,CVE-2023-30456,CVE-2023-53070,CVE-2023-53075,CVE-2023-53081,CVE-2023-53084,CVE-2023-53087,CVE-2023-53089,CVE-2023-53091,CVE-2023-53095,CVE-2023-53096,CVE-2023-53100,CVE-2023-53101,CVE-2023-53103,CVE-2023-53107,CVE-2023-53109,CVE-2023-53111,CVE-2023-53112,CVE-2023-53117,CVE-2023-53121,CVE-2023-53123,CVE-2023-53131,CVE-2023-53133,CVE-2023-53136,CVE-2023-53140,CVE-2023-53141,CVE-2023-53143,CVE-2023-53169") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509261517
Version 1.4 Jul 8, 2025, 1:52 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2022-49932,CVE-2023-2235,CVE-2023-28466,CVE-2023-30456,CVE-2023-53075,CVE-2023-53089,CVE-2023-53091,CVE-2023-53095,CVE-2023-53100,CVE-2023-53101,CVE-2023-53107,CVE-2023-53109,CVE-2023-53123,CVE-2023-53131,CVE-2023-53133,CVE-2023-53136,CVE-2023-53137,CVE-2023-53140") 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: 202507080152
Version 1.2 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM 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: 202412120955
Version 1.0 Apr 5, 2023, 3:58 AM New Plugin Feed: 202304050358