The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.311-233.529. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2909 advisory.

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

    ftrace: Fix invalid address access in lookup_rec() when index is 0 (CVE-2023-53075)

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

    ext4: fix task hung in ext4_xattr_delete_inode (CVE-2023-53089)

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

    ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_update_inline_data (CVE-2023-53100)

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

    ext4: zero i_disksize when initializing the bootloader inode (CVE-2023-53101)

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

    net: tunnels: annotate lockless accesses to dev->needed_headroom (CVE-2023-53109)

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

    nvmet: avoid potential UAF in nvmet_req_complete() (CVE-2023-53116)

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

    fs: prevent out-of-bounds array speculation when closing a file descriptor (CVE-2023-53117)

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

    tcp: tcp_make_synack() can be called from process context (CVE-2023-53121)

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

    net: usb: smsc75xx: Limit packet length to skb->len (CVE-2023-53125)

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

    ila: do not generate empty messages in ila_xlat_nl_cmd_get_mapping() (CVE-2023-53141)

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

    ext4: fix another off-by-one fsmap error on 1k block filesystems (CVE-2023-53143)

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-2025-2909)

low Nessus Plugin ID 241751

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Aug 5, 2025, 4:04 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2023-53075,CVE-2023-53089,CVE-2023-53100,CVE-2023-53101,CVE-2023-53109,CVE-2023-53116,CVE-2023-53117,CVE-2023-53121,CVE-2023-53125,CVE-2023-53141,CVE-2023-53143") 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: 202508050404
Version 1.2 Jul 15, 2025, 2:39 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202507150239
Version 1.1 Jul 11, 2025, 4:37 AM New Plugin Feed: 202507110437