The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.261-174.360. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2024-072 advisory.

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

    Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix use after free in rmi_unregister_function() (CVE-2023-52840)

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

    llc: verify mac len before reading mac header (CVE-2023-52843)

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

    tipc: Change nla_policy for bearer-related names to NLA_NUL_STRING (CVE-2023-52845)

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

    drm/radeon: possible buffer overflow (CVE-2023-52867)

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

    thermal: core: prevent potential string overflow (CVE-2023-52868)

    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)

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 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2024-072 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2024-072)

high Nessus Plugin ID 200914

Version 1.7