The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.305-227.531. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2837 advisory.

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

    dmaengine: Fix double increment of client_count in dma_chan_get() (CVE-2022-49753)

    A memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel's human interface device (HID) subsystem in how a     user inserts a malicious USB device. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their     privileges on the system. (CVE-2023-1073)

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

    x86/i8259: Mark legacy PIC interrupts with IRQ_LEVEL (CVE-2023-52993)

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

    tracing: Make sure trace_printk() can output as soon as it can be used (CVE-2023-53007)

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

    HID: betop: check shape of output reports (CVE-2023-53015)

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

    net: mdio: validate parameter addr in mdiobus_get_phy() (CVE-2023-53019)

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 (ALAS-2025-2837)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235076

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Version 1.2 May 21, 2025, 4:51 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2022-49753,CVE-2023-1073,CVE-2023-52993,CVE-2023-53007,CVE-2023-53015,CVE-2023-53019") 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: 202505211651
Version 1.1 May 2, 2025, 7:53 AM New Plugin Feed: 202505020753