The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.326-245.539. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2264 advisory.

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's IP framework for transforming packets (XFRM subsystem). This issue     may allow a malicious user with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges to directly dereference a NULL pointer in     xfrm_update_ae_params(), leading to a possible kernel crash and denial of service. (CVE-2023-3772)

    A flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel. The xt_u32 module did not validate the     fields in the xt_u32 structure. This flaw allows a local privileged attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds     read by setting the size fields with a value beyond the array boundaries, leading to a crash or     information disclosure. (CVE-2023-39192)

    A flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel. The sctp_mt_check did not validate the     flag_count field. This flaw allows a local privileged (CAP_NET_ADMIN) attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds     read, leading to a crash or information disclosure. (CVE-2023-39193)

    A flaw was found in the XFRM subsystem in the Linux kernel. The specific flaw exists within the processing     of state filters, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. This flaw allows a local     privileged (CAP_NET_ADMIN) attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds read, potentially leading to an     information disclosure. (CVE-2023-39194)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation.

    When fw_change() is called on an existing filter, the whole tcf_result struct is always copied into the     new instance of the filter. This causes a problem when updating a filter bound to a class, as     tcf_unbind_filter() is always called on the old instance in the success path, decreasing filter_cnt of the     still referenced class and allowing it to be deleted, leading to a use-after-free.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 76e42ae831991c828cffa8c37736ebfb831ad5ec. (CVE-2023-4207)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation.

    Due to a race condition between nf_tables netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage     collection, it is possible to underflow the reference counter causing a use-after-free vulnerability.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 3e91b0ebd994635df2346353322ac51ce84ce6d8. (CVE-2023-4244)

    The upstream commit describes this issue as follows:

    The missing IP_SET_HASH_WITH_NET0 macro in ip_set_hash_netportnet can lead to the use of wrong     `CIDR_POS(c)` for calculating array offsets, which can lead to integer underflow. As a result, it leads to     slab out-of-bound access. (CVE-2023-42753)

    A flaw was found in rsvp_change(). The root cause is an slab-out-of-bound access, but since the offset to     the original pointer is an `unsign int` fully controlled by users, the behavior is usually a wild pointer     access. (CVE-2023-42755)

    An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c in the IGB driver in the Linux kernel     before 6.5.3. A buffer size may not be adequate for frames larger than the MTU. (CVE-2023-45871)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local     privilege escalation.

    The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without     locking the queue. Thus there is a race where unix_stream_sendpage() could access an skb locklessly that     is being released by garbage collection, resulting in use-after-free.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 790c2f9d15b594350ae9bca7b236f2b1859de02c. (CVE-2023-4622)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_hfsc (HFSC qdisc traffic control)     component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

    If a class with a link-sharing curve (i.e. with the HFSC_FSC flag set) has a parent without a link-sharing     curve, then init_vf() will call vttree_insert() on the parent, but vttree_remove() will be skipped in     update_vf(). This leaves a dangling pointer that can cause a use-after-free.

    We recommend upgrading past commit b3d26c5702c7d6c45456326e56d2ccf3f103e60f. (CVE-2023-4623)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation.

    When the plug qdisc is used as a class of the qfq qdisc, sending network packets triggers use-after-free     in qfq_dequeue() due to the incorrect .peek handler of sch_plug and lack of error checking in     agg_dequeue().

    We recommend upgrading past commit 8fc134fee27f2263988ae38920bc03da416b03d8. (CVE-2023-4921)

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

    xfrm: add NULL check in xfrm_update_ae_params (CVE-2023-53147)

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

    udf: Fix uninitialized array access for some pathnames (CVE-2023-53165)

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

    scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails (CVE-2023-53174)

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

    netfilter: ipset: add the missing IP_SET_HASH_WITH_NET0 macro for ip_set_hash_netportnet.c     (CVE-2023-53179)

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

    af_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight. (CVE-2023-53204)

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

    scsi: storvsc: Fix handling of virtual Fibre Channel timeouts (CVE-2023-53245)

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

    drm/radeon: Fix integer overflow in radeon_cs_parser_init (CVE-2023-53309)

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

    nilfs2: fix use-after-free of nilfs_root in dirtying inodes via iput (CVE-2023-53311)

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

    pstore/ram: Check start of empty przs during init (CVE-2023-53331)

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

    ACPICA: Add AML_NO_OPERAND_RESOLVE flag to Timer (CVE-2023-53395)

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

    HID: multitouch: Correct devm device reference for hidinput input_dev name (CVE-2023-53454)

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

    scsi: qla4xxx: Add length check when parsing nlattrs (CVE-2023-53456)

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

    FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin (CVE-2023-53457)

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

    af_unix: Fix null-ptr-deref in unix_stream_sendpage(). (CVE-2023-53469)

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

    kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset_register() (CVE-2023-53480)

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

    fs: jfs: Fix UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dbAllocDmapLev (CVE-2023-53485)

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

    PM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release() (CVE-2023-53518)

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

    ip_vti: fix potential slab-use-after-free in decode_session6 (CVE-2023-53559)

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

    cifs: Release folio lock on fscache read hit. (CVE-2023-53593)

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

    jfs: fix invalid free of JFS_IP(ipimap)->i_imap in diUnmount (CVE-2023-53616)

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

    gfs2: Fix possible data races in gfs2_show_options() (CVE-2023-53622)

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

    btrfs: output extra debug info if we failed to find an inline backref (CVE-2023-53672)

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

    scsi: target: iscsi: Fix buffer overflow in lio_target_nacl_info_show() (CVE-2023-53676)

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

    md: raid1: fix potential OOB in raid1_remove_disk() (CVE-2023-53722)

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 ALAS2-2023-2264 (ALAS-2023-2264)

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