The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.355-280.679. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2988 advisory.

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

    scsi: lpfc: Prevent buffer overflow crashes in debugfs with malformed user input (CVE-2022-50030)

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

    iavf: Fix adminq error handling (CVE-2022-50055)

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

    nfs: handle failure of nfs_get_lock_context in unlock path (CVE-2025-38023)

    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:

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

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

    fbdev: Fix do_register_framebuffer to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var (CVE-2025-38215)

    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)

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 ALAS2-2025-2988 (ALAS-2025-2988)

high Nessus Plugin ID 261340

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