It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-430 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.5.9, exploitable by local users with userspace access     to MMIO registers. Incorrect access checking in the #VC handler and instruction emulation of the SEV-ES     emulation of MMIO accesses could lead to arbitrary write access to kernel memory (and thus privilege     escalation). This depends on a race condition through which userspace can replace an instruction before     the #VC handler reads it. (CVE-2023-46813)

    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.5.9. During a race with SQ thread exit, an     io_uring/fdinfo.c io_uring_show_fdinfo NULL pointer dereference can occur. (CVE-2023-46862)

    x86: KVM: SVM: always update the x2avic msr interception (CVE-2023-5090)

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

    ext4: fix BUG in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() due to overflow (CVE-2023-54069)

    A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Linux Kernel Performance Events (perf)     component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

    If perf_read_group() is called while an event's sibling_list is smaller than its child's sibling_list, it     can increment or write to memory locations outside of the allocated buffer.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 32671e3799ca2e4590773fd0e63aaa4229e50c06. (CVE-2023-5717)

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 (ALAS2023-2023-430)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185719

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