It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-984 advisory.

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

    btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when cow_file_range() failed (CVE-2024-57976)

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

    kernel: be more careful about dup_mmap() failures and uprobe registering (CVE-2025-21709)

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

    block: fix queue freeze vs limits lock order in sysfs store methods (CVE-2025-21807)

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

    block: mark GFP_NOIO around sysfs ->store() (CVE-2025-21817)

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

    iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE (CVE-2025-21833)

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

    net: better track kernel sockets lifetime (CVE-2025-21884)

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

    bnxt_en: Mask the bd_cnt field in the TX BD properly (CVE-2025-22108)

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 2023 : bpftool, kernel6.12, kernel6.12-modules-extra (ALAS2023-2025-984)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237679

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Aug 13, 2025, 7:42 PM Detection (updated to only impact affected kernel) Plugin Feed: 202508131942
Version 1.1 Jun 3, 2025, 7:16 AM New Plugin Feed: 202506030716