The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.254-169.358. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2025-116 advisory.

    A division-by-zero error on some AMD processors can potentially return speculative data resulting in loss     of confidentiality. (CVE-2023-20588)

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

    scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails (CVE-2023-53174)

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

    scsi: storvsc: Fix handling of virtual Fibre Channel timeouts (CVE-2023-53245)

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

    nilfs2: fix use-after-free of nilfs_root in dirtying inodes via iput (CVE-2023-53311)

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

    dccp: fix data-race around dp->dccps_mss_cache (CVE-2023-53839)

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

    usb-storage: alauda: Fix uninit-value in alauda_check_media() (CVE-2023-53847)

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-5.4-2025-116 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-116)

high Nessus Plugin ID 281815

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Jan 27, 2026, 5:22 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202601270522
Version 1.1 Jan 6, 2026, 10:00 AM New Plugin Feed: 202601061000