The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.239-236.958. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2025-098 advisory.

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

    netfilter: flowtable: fix stuck flows on cleanup due to pending work (CVE-2022-50000)

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

    netfilter: nft_socket: fix sk refcount leaks (CVE-2024-46855)

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

    mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count (CVE-2024-57883)

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

    net_sched: sch_sfq: don't allow 1 packet limit (CVE-2024-57996)

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

    mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry (CVE-2025-37958)

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

    arm64: bpf: Only mitigate cBPF programs loaded by unprivileged users (CVE-2025-37963)

    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:

    net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune() (CVE-2025-38083)

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

    mm/hugetlb: unshare page tables during VMA split, not before (CVE-2025-38084)

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

    mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race (CVE-2025-38085)

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

    net: ch9200: fix uninitialised access during mii_nway_restart (CVE-2025-38086)

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

    x86/iopl: Cure TIF_IO_BITMAP inconsistencies (CVE-2025-38100)

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

    HID: usbhid: Eliminate recurrent out-of-bounds bug in usbhid_parse() (CVE-2025-38103)

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

    net_sched: ets: fix a race in ets_qdisc_change() (CVE-2025-38107)

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

    net_sched: red: fix a race in __red_change() (CVE-2025-38108)

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

    net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds read/write access (CVE-2025-38111)

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

    net: Fix TOCTOU issue in sk_is_readable() (CVE-2025-38112)

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

    net_sched: sch_sfq: fix a potential crash on gso_skb handling (CVE-2025-38115)

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

    net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse (CVE-2025-38146)

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

    calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk. (CVE-2025-38147)

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

    RDMA/mlx5: Fix error flow upon firmware failure for RQ destruction (CVE-2025-38161)

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

    calipso: Fix null-ptr-deref in calipso_req_{set,del}attr(). (CVE-2025-38181)

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

    tipc: fix null-ptr-deref when acquiring remote ip of ethernet bearer (CVE-2025-38184)

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

    platform/x86: dell_rbu: Fix list usage (CVE-2025-38197)

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

    i40e: fix MMIO write access to an invalid page in i40e_clear_hw (CVE-2025-38200)

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

    exfat: fix double free in delayed_free (CVE-2025-38206)

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

    ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU (CVE-2025-38212)

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

    vgacon: Add check for vc_origin address range in vgacon_scroll() (CVE-2025-38213)

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

    fbdev: Fix fb_set_var to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var (CVE-2025-38214)

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

    ext4: inline: fix len overflow in ext4_prepare_inline_data (CVE-2025-38222)

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

    nfsd: Initialize ssc before laundromat_work to prevent NULL dereference (CVE-2025-38231)

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

    net: tipc: fix refcount warning in tipc_aead_encrypt (CVE-2025-38273)

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

    bpf: Fix WARN() in get_bpf_raw_tp_regs (CVE-2025-38285)

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

    EDAC/skx_common: Fix general protection fault (CVE-2025-38298)

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

    fbdev: core: fbcvt: avoid division by 0 in fb_cvt_hperiod() (CVE-2025-38312)

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

    arm64/ptrace: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() (CVE-2025-38320)

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

    mpls: Use rcu_dereference_rtnl() in mpls_route_input_rcu(). (CVE-2025-38324)

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

    scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version (CVE-2025-38332)

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

    jbd2: fix data-race and null-ptr-deref in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() (CVE-2025-38337)

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

    software node: Correct a OOB check in software_node_get_reference_args() (CVE-2025-38342)

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

    ACPICA: fix acpi parse and parseext cache leaks (CVE-2025-38344)

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

    ACPICA: fix acpi operand cache leak in dswstate.c (CVE-2025-38345)

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

    ftrace: Fix UAF when lookup kallsym after ftrace disabled (CVE-2025-38346)

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

    posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() (CVE-2025-38352)

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

    Squashfs: check return result of sb_min_blocksize (CVE-2025-38415)

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

    perf: Fix sample vs do_exit() (CVE-2025-38424)

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

    nfsd: nfsd4_spo_must_allow() must check this is a v4 compound request (CVE-2025-38430)

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

    do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts (CVE-2025-38498)

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, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2025-098 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-098)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243421

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Version 1.7 Feb 26, 2026, 3:44 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv3 severity (based on None, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202602261544
Version 1.6 Oct 30, 2025, 2:57 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202510301457
Version 1.3 Sep 5, 2025, 4:38 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") CISA reference Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202509051638
Version 1.1 Aug 5, 2025, 4:04 AM New Plugin Feed: 202508050404