The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.189-131.211. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-088 advisory.

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

    dma-buf/dma-resv: check if the new fence is really later (CVE-2022-49935)

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

    mptcp: do not queue data on closed subflows (CVE-2022-50070)

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

    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation (CVE-2025-38162)

    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:

    af_unix: Don't leave consecutive consumed OOB skbs. (CVE-2025-38236)

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

    bridge: mcast: Fix use-after-free during router port configuration (CVE-2025-38248)

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

    netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast() (CVE-2025-38727)

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-5.15-2025-088 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-088)

high Nessus Plugin ID 261436

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Version 1.2 Sep 19, 2025, 8:38 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2022-49935,CVE-2022-50070,CVE-2025-38162,CVE-2025-38215,CVE-2025-38236,CVE-2025-38248") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509190838
Version 1.1 Sep 5, 2025, 4:38 PM New Plugin Feed: 202509051638