The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.355-271.569. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2696 advisory.

    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:

    block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media (CVE-2024-43854)

    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:

    ipv6: prevent UAF in ip6_send_skb() (CVE-2024-44987)

    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:

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

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

    VMCI: Fix use-after-free when removing resource in vmci_resource_remove() (CVE-2024-46738)

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

    of/irq: Prevent device address out-of-bounds read in interrupt map walk (CVE-2024-46743)

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

    Squashfs: sanity check symbolic link size (CVE-2024-46744)

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

    Input: uinput - reject requests with unreasonable number of slots (CVE-2024-46745)

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

    PCI: Add missing bridge lock to pci_bus_lock() (CVE-2024-46750)

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

    hwmon: (adc128d818) Fix underflows seen when writing limit attributes (CVE-2024-46759)

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

    nilfs2: protect references to superblock parameters exposed in sysfs (CVE-2024-46780)

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

    nilfs2: fix missing cleanup on rollforward recovery error (CVE-2024-46781)

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

    sch/netem: fix use after free in netem_dequeue (CVE-2024-46800)

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

    rtmutex: Drop rt_mutex::wait_lock before scheduling (CVE-2024-46829)

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

    btrfs: clean up our handling of refs == 0 in snapshot delete (CVE-2024-46840)

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

    nilfs2: fix state management in error path of log writing function (CVE-2024-47669)

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 ALAS2-2024-2696 (ALAS-2024-2696)

high Nessus Plugin ID 232714

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

Version 1.5 Jan 27, 2026, 5:22 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202601270522
Version 1.4 Oct 30, 2025, 2:57 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202510301457