It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1169 advisory.

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

    smb: client: Avoid race in open_cached_dir with lease breaks (CVE-2025-37954)

    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:

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

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

    xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface (CVE-2025-38500)

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

    net/sched: Restrict conditions for adding duplicating netems to qdisc tree (CVE-2025-38553)

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

    x86/sev: Evict cache lines during SNP memory validation (CVE-2025-38560)

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

    perf/core: Prevent VMA split of buffer mappings (CVE-2025-38563)

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

    perf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail (CVE-2025-38565)

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

    ipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment() (CVE-2025-38572)

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

    ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev() (CVE-2025-38587)

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

    ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() (CVE-2025-38588)

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

    bpf, ktls: Fix data corruption when using bpf_msg_pop_data() in ktls (CVE-2025-38608)

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

    net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier() (CVE-2025-38617)

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

    vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY (CVE-2025-38618)

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

    net: drop UFO packets in udp_rcv_segment() (CVE-2025-38622)

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

    netfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated (CVE-2025-38639)

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

    net/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage (CVE-2025-38645)

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

    proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al (CVE-2025-38653)

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

    can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode (CVE-2025-38665)

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

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

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

    NFS: Fix filehandle bounds checking in nfs_fh_to_dentry() (CVE-2025-39730)

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

    Revert fs/ntfs3: Replace inode_trylock with inode_lock (CVE-2025-39734)

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 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2025-1169)

high Nessus Plugin ID 261737

Version 1.5

Version 1.3

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Version 1.1

Version 1.5 Jan 27, 2026, 5:22 AM 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") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2025-38572, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202601270522
Version 1.3 Sep 26, 2025, 3:17 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2025-37954,CVE-2025-38162,CVE-2025-38206,CVE-2025-38500,CVE-2025-38553,CVE-2025-38560,CVE-2025-38572,CVE-2025-38587,CVE-2025-38588,CVE-2025-38617,CVE-2025-38618,CVE-2025-38622,CVE-2025-38645,CVE-2025-38653,CVE-2025-38665,CVE-2025-39730") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 7.6) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2025-38500" to "CVE-2025-38572") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2025-38572, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2025-38500") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509261517
Version 1.2 Sep 12, 2025, 7:50 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2025-37954,CVE-2025-38162,CVE-2025-38206,CVE-2025-38500,CVE-2025-38553,CVE-2025-38560,CVE-2025-38572,CVE-2025-38587,CVE-2025-38588,CVE-2025-38617,CVE-2025-38618,CVE-2025-38622,CVE-2025-38645,CVE-2025-38653,CVE-2025-38665") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509120750
Version 1.1 Sep 9, 2025, 3:48 AM New Plugin Feed: 202509090348