The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.240-238.959. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2025-101 advisory.

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

    net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol when skb->dev is null (CVE-2022-50073)

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

    KVM: x86/mmu: Treat NX as a valid SPTE bit for NPT (CVE-2022-50224)

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

    VMCI: check context->notify_page after call to get_user_pages_fast() to avoid GPF (CVE-2023-53259)

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

    ACPI: PAD: fix crash in exit_round_robin() (CVE-2024-49935)

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

    codel: remove sch->q.qlen check before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() (CVE-2025-37798)

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

    sch_htb: make htb_qlen_notify() idempotent (CVE-2025-37932)

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

    serial: mctrl_gpio: split disable_ms into sync and no_sync APIs (CVE-2025-38040)

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

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

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

    rseq: Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero (CVE-2025-38067)

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

    VMCI: fix race between vmci_host_setup_notify and vmci_ctx_unset_notify (CVE-2025-38102)

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

    sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent (CVE-2025-38177)

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

    net_sched: sch_sfq: reject invalid perturb period (CVE-2025-38193)

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

    RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction (CVE-2025-38211)

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

    bcache: fix NULL pointer in cache_set_flush() (CVE-2025-38263)

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

    net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty (CVE-2025-38350)

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

    ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing (CVE-2025-38386)

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

    drm/i915/gt: Fix timeline left held on VMA alloc error (CVE-2025-38389)

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

    NFSv4/pNFS: Fix a race to wake on NFS_LAYOUT_DRAIN (CVE-2025-38393)

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

    scsi: target: Fix NULL pointer dereference in core_scsi3_decode_spec_i_port() (CVE-2025-38399)

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

    nfs: Clean up /proc/net/rpc/nfs when nfs_fs_proc_net_init() fails. (CVE-2025-38400)

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

    vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it (CVE-2025-38403)

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

    bnxt_en: Set DMA unmap len correctly for XDP_REDIRECT (CVE-2025-38439)

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

    md/raid1: Fix stack memory use after return in raid1_reshape (CVE-2025-38445)

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

    net/sched: Abort __tc_modify_qdisc if parent class does not exist (CVE-2025-38457)

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

    vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU (CVE-2025-38461)

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

    vsock: Fix transport_{g2h,h2g} TOCTOU (CVE-2025-38462)

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

    tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_conn_close(). (CVE-2025-38464)

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

    perf: Revert to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for uprobes (CVE-2025-38466)

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-5.10-2025-101 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-101)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 246925

Version 1.3