The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.244-240.965. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2025-105 advisory.

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

    smb: client: fix use-after-free in cifs_oplock_break (CVE-2025-38527)

    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:

    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)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB     mitigation

    VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that exploits insufficient branch predictor isolation between a guest and a     userspace hypervisor (like QEMU). Existing mitigations already protect kernel/KVM from a malicious guest.
    Userspace can additionally be protected by flushing the branch predictors after a VMexit.

    Since it is the userspace that consumes the poisoned branch predictors, conditionally issue an IBPB after     a VMexit and before returning to userspace. Workloads that frequently switch between hypervisor and     userspace will incur the most overhead from the new IBPB.

    This new IBPB is not integrated with the existing IBPB sites. For instance, a task can use the existing     speculation control prctl() to get an IBPB at context switch time. With this implementation, the IBPB is     doubled up: one at context switch and another before running userspace. The intent is to integrate and     optimize these cases post-embargo.[ dhansen: elaborate on suboptimal IBPB solution ] (CVE-2025-40300)

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-5.10-2025-105 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2025-105)

high Nessus Plugin ID 266167

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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") 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 1.4 Oct 29, 2025, 3:03 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2025-38527,CVE-2025-38665,CVE-2025-39677,CVE-2025-39702,CVE-2025-39841,CVE-2025-39847,CVE-2025-39853,CVE-2025-39902,CVE-2025-40300") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202510290303
Version 1.1 Sep 30, 2025, 5:08 PM New Plugin Feed: 202509301708