The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.291-206.400. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2025-097 advisory.

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

    Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero (CVE-2024-26982)

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

    smb: client: fix UAF in smb2_reconnect_server() (CVE-2024-35870)

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

    pps: Fix a use-after-free (CVE-2024-57979)

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

    rtc: pcf85063: fix potential OOB write in PCF85063 NVMEM read (CVE-2024-58069)

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

    KVM: Explicitly verify target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu() (CVE-2024-58083)

    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:

    net: sched: Disallow replacing of child qdisc from one parent to another (CVE-2025-21700)

    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:

    nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced (CVE-2025-21722)

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

    nbd: don't allow reconnect after disconnect (CVE-2025-21731)

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

    btrfs: fix use-after-free when attempting to join an aborted transaction (CVE-2025-21753)

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

    ndisc: extend RCU protection in ndisc_send_skb() (CVE-2025-21760)

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

    openvswitch: use RCU protection in ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info() (CVE-2025-21761)

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

    arp: use RCU protection in arp_xmit() (CVE-2025-21762)

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

    neighbour: use RCU protection in __neigh_notify() (CVE-2025-21763)

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

    ndisc: use RCU protection in ndisc_alloc_skb() (CVE-2025-21764)

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

    arm64: cacheinfo: Avoid out-of-bounds write to cacheinfo array (CVE-2025-21785)

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

    vrf: use RCU protection in l3mdev_l3_out() (CVE-2025-21791)

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

    nilfs2: protect access to buffers with no active references (CVE-2025-21811)

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

    geneve: Fix use-after-free in geneve_find_dev(). (CVE-2025-21858)

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

    vlan: enforce underlying device type (CVE-2025-21920)

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

    HID: intel-ish-hid: Fix use-after-free issue in ishtp_hid_remove() (CVE-2025-21928)

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-5.4-2025-097)

high Nessus Plugin ID 233712

Version 1.3