The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.234-225.917. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2025-085 advisory.

    Insufficient control flow management for the Intel(R) 82599 Ethernet Controllers and Adapters may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access. (CVE-2021-33061)

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

    KVM: x86: Acquire kvm->srcu when handling KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS (CVE-2024-46830)

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

    sched: sch_cake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts (CVE-2025-21647)

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

    pfifo_tail_enqueue: Drop new packet when sch->limit == 0 (CVE-2025-21702)

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

    netem: Update sch->q.qlen before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() (CVE-2025-21703)

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 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-085)

high Nessus Plugin ID 232919

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Version 1.2 Jan 27, 2026, 5:22 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2024-46830") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2024-46830, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202601270522
Version 1.1 Mar 20, 2025, 7:47 AM New Plugin Feed: 202503200747