The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6992 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: x86/xen: Add some null pointer checking to smp.c (CVE-2024-26908)

    * kernel: perf: Fix list corruption in perf_cgroup_switch() (CVE-2022-48799)

    * kernel: NFSD: Fix ia_size underflow (CVE-2022-48828)

    * kernel: NFSD: Fix NFSv3 SETATTR/CREATE's handling of large file sizes (CVE-2022-48829)

    * kernel: virtio-net: tap: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41090)

    * kernel: virtio-net: tun: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41091)

    * kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing (CVE-2024-41071)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:6992)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207657

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.6 Oct 9, 2025, 2:13 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.2) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2022-48828" to "CVE-2024-41091") CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-41091" to none) Plugin Feed: 202510091413
Version 1.5 Sep 30, 2025, 5:08 PM CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-41090" to "CVE-2024-41091") Plugin Feed: 202509301708
Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.1 Sep 24, 2024, 1:22 PM New Plugin Feed: 202409241322