It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1297 advisory.

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

    crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption (CVE-2025-40019)

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

    mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise (CVE-2025-40040)

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

    tracing: Fix race condition in kprobe initialization causing NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2025-40042)

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

    cifs: parse_dfs_referrals: prevent oob on malformed input (CVE-2025-40099)

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

    btrfs: do not assert we found block group item when creating free space tree (CVE-2025-40100)

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

    smb: client: Fix refcount leak for cifs_sb_tlink (CVE-2025-40103)

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

    ixgbevf: fix mailbox API compatibility by negotiating supported features (CVE-2025-40104)

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

    vfs: Don't leak disconnected dentries on umount (CVE-2025-40105)

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

    drm/vmwgfx: Fix Use-after-free in validation (CVE-2025-40111)

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

    ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination (CVE-2025-40167)

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

    net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth (CVE-2025-40173)

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

    tls: wait for pending async decryptions if tls_strp_msg_hold fails (CVE-2025-40176)

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

    pid: Add a judgment for ns null in pid_nr_ns (CVE-2025-40178)

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

    ext4: verify orphan file size is not too big (CVE-2025-40179)

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

    bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6} (CVE-2025-40183)

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

    net/sctp: fix a null dereference in sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce() (CVE-2025-40187)

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

    ext4: guard against EA inode refcount underflow in xattr update (CVE-2025-40190)

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

    cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix object lifecycle issue in update_qos_request() (CVE-2025-40194)

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

    media: mc: Clear minor number before put device (CVE-2025-40197)

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

    ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options() (CVE-2025-40198)

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

    Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode() (CVE-2025-40200)

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

    kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths (CVE-2025-40201)

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

    sctp: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (CVE-2025-40204)

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

    btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh() (CVE-2025-40205)

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

    media: v4l2-subdev: Fix alloc failure check in v4l2_subdev_call_state_try() (CVE-2025-40207)

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 (ALAS2023-2025-1297)

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Version 1.2 Jan 27, 2026, 5:22 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.3) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2025-40019, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2025-40176") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202601270522
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