The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.283-195.378. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2024-085 advisory.

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

    drm/amdkfd: don't allow mapping the MMIO HDP page with large pages (CVE-2024-41011)

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

    ata: libata-core: Fix null pointer dereference on error (CVE-2024-41098)

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

    drm/amdgpu: Using uninitialized value *size when calling amdgpu_vce_cs_reloc (CVE-2024-42228)

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

    cgroup/cpuset: Prevent UAF in proc_cpuset_show() (CVE-2024-43853)

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

    fuse: Initialize beyond-EOF page contents before setting uptodate (CVE-2024-44947)

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

    xhci: Fix Panther point NULL pointer deref at full-speed re-enumeration (CVE-2024-45006)

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

    Input: MT - limit max slots (CVE-2024-45008)

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

    netem: fix return value if duplicate enqueue fails (CVE-2024-45016)

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

    memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops (CVE-2024-45021)

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

    ethtool: check device is present when getting link settings (CVE-2024-46679)

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

    soc: qcom: cmd-db: Map shared memory as WC, not WB (CVE-2024-46689)

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

    fou: Fix null-ptr-deref in GRO. (CVE-2024-46763)

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-5.4-2024-085 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2024-085)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207405

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.3

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Version 1.1

Version 1.7 Jan 27, 2026, 5:22 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202601270522
Version 1.6 Oct 8, 2025, 6:53 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202510081853
Version 1.3 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 Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.2 Sep 27, 2024, 10:13 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2024-41011,CVE-2024-41098,CVE-2024-42228,CVE-2024-46679,CVE-2024-46689,CVE-2024-46763") 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: 202409272213
Version 1.1 Sep 19, 2024, 3:20 AM New Plugin Feed: 202409190320