The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.194-135.217. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2025-093 advisory.

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

    netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when nsim_dev_resources_register() failed (CVE-2022-50500)

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

    libceph: fix invalid accesses to ceph_connection_v1_info (CVE-2025-39880)

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

    mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory (CVE-2025-39883)

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

    tcp_bpf: Call sk_msg_free() when tcp_bpf_send_verdict() fails to allocate psock->cork. (CVE-2025-39913)

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

    cgroup: split cgroup_destroy_wq into 3 workqueues (CVE-2025-39953)

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

    tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect(). (CVE-2025-39955)

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

    crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg (CVE-2025-39964)

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

    fbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font (CVE-2025-39967)

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

    nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in a group (CVE-2025-39980)

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

    tracing: dynevent: Add a missing lockdown check on dynevent (CVE-2025-40021)

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-5.15-2025-093 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-093)

high Nessus Plugin ID 271740

Version 1.4