The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.265-176.364. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2024-057 advisory.

  - 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)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: skip sync     GC for new elements in this transaction New elements in this transaction might expired before such     transaction ends. Skip sync GC for such elements otherwise commit path might walk over an already released     object. Once transaction is finished, async GC will collect such expired element. (CVE-2023-52433)

  - An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue     may allow a remote attacker to send a crafted TCP packet, triggering a heap-based buffer overflow that     results in kmalloc data being printed and potentially leaked to the kernel ring buffer (dmesg).
    (CVE-2023-6121)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux Kernel due to a race problem in the unix garbage collector's     deletion of SKB races with unix_stream_read_generic() on the socket that the SKB is queued on.
    (CVE-2023-6531)

  - A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Performance Events system component can be     exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. A perf_event's read_size can overflow, leading to an heap     out-of-bounds increment or write in perf_read_group(). We recommend upgrading past commit     382c27f4ed28f803b1f1473ac2d8db0afc795a1b. (CVE-2023-6931)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component can be exploited to achieve     local privilege escalation. A race condition can be exploited to cause a timer be mistakenly registered on     a RCU read locked object which is freed by another thread. We recommend upgrading past commit     e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1. (CVE-2023-6932)

  - Rejected reason: Do not use this CVE as it is duplicate of CVE-2023-6932 (CVE-2024-0584)

  - When a router encounters an IPv6 packet too big to transmit to the next-hop, it returns an ICMP6 Packet     Too Big (PTB) message to the sender. The sender caches this updated Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) so it     knows not to exceed this value when subsequently routing to the same host. (CVE-2023-52340)

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-5.4-2024-057)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187776

Version 1.6