The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:3267 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Linux kernel: xHCI driver isochronous event handling race condition leading to data loss or UAF     (CVE-2025-37882)

    * kernel: scsi: mpi3mr: Synchronous access b/w reset and tm thread for reply queue (CVE-2025-37861)

    * kernel: Linux kernel: Memory corruption in Squashfs due to incorrect block size calculation     (CVE-2025-38415)

    * kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in USB configuration parsing     (CVE-2025-39760)

    * kernel: Linux kernel: Out-of-bounds write in VXLAN due to incorrect nexthop hash size leading to denial     of service (CVE-2023-53192)

    * kernel: smb: client: let recv_done verify data_offset, data_length and remaining_data_length     (CVE-2025-39933)

    * kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in proc_readdir_de() can lead to privilege escalation or denial of     service. (CVE-2025-40271)

    * kernel: Linux kernel Bluetooth: Denial of Service due to use-after-free in connection handling     (CVE-2023-53762)

    * kernel: Linux kernel ALSA USB audio driver: Buffer overflow leading to information disclosure and denial     of service (CVE-2025-40269)

    * kernel: ip6_vti: fix slab-use-after-free in decode_session6 (CVE-2023-53821)

    * kernel: ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_orphan_cleanup (CVE-2022-50673)

    * kernel: NFSv4/pNFS: Clear NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT in pnfs_mark_layout_stateid_invalid (CVE-2025-68349)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2026:3267)

high Nessus Plugin ID 300052

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