The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.187-130.192. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-084 advisory.

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

    tracing: Verify event formats that have %*p.. (CVE-2025-37938)

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

    net: phy: allow MDIO bus PM ops to start/stop state machine for phylink-controlled PHY (CVE-2025-37945)

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

    genirq/msi: Store the IOMMU IOVA directly in msi_desc instead of iommu_cookie (CVE-2025-38062)

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

    virtio: break and reset virtio devices on device_shutdown() (CVE-2025-38064)

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-5.15-2025-084)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243200

Version 1.1