The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9080 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: eth: bnxt: fix truesize for mb-xdp-pass case (CVE-2025-21961)

    * kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_send_cmd (CVE-2025-21969)

    * kernel: cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing acdirmax mount option (CVE-2025-21963)

    * kernel: wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy (CVE-2025-21979)

    * kernel: proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode() (CVE-2025-21999)

    * kernel: md: fix mddev uaf while iterating all_mddevs list (CVE-2025-22126)

    * kernel: smb: client: fix UAF in decryption with multichannel (CVE-2025-37750)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2025:9080)

high Nessus Plugin ID 238499

Version 1.1