The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.299-219.434. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2025-110 advisory.

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

    iavf: Fix reset error handling (CVE-2022-50053)

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

    net_sched: Flush gso_skb list too during ->change() (CVE-2025-37992)

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

    RDMA/core: Fix KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ib_register_device problem (CVE-2025-38022)

    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:

    hv_netvsc: Fix panic during namespace deletion with VF (CVE-2025-38683)

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

    net/sched: Fix backlog accounting in qdisc_dequeue_internal (CVE-2025-39677)

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

    ipv6: sr: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (CVE-2025-39702)

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

    scsi: lpfc: Fix buffer free/clear order in deferred receive path (CVE-2025-39841)

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

    ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb (CVE-2025-39847)

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

    i40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty (CVE-2025-39853)

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

    e1000e: fix heap overflow in e1000_set_eeprom (CVE-2025-39898)

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

    mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err() (CVE-2025-39902)

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-5.4-2025-110 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-110)

high Nessus Plugin ID 266157

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Version 1.4 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") 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") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601270522
Version 1.3 Oct 28, 2025, 5:56 PM Plugin metadata CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2022-50053,CVE-2025-37992,CVE-2025-38022,CVE-2025-38665,CVE-2025-38683,CVE-2025-39677,CVE-2025-39702,CVE-2025-39841,CVE-2025-39847,CVE-2025-39853,CVE-2025-39902") Plugin Feed: 202510281756
Version 1.1 Sep 30, 2025, 5:08 PM New Plugin Feed: 202509301708