The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.202-141.223. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2026-100 advisory.

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

    fs: ntfs3: fix infinite loop in attr_load_runs_range on inconsistent metadata (CVE-2025-71265)

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

    fs: ntfs3: check return value of indx_find to avoid infinite loop (CVE-2025-71266)

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

    fs: ntfs3: fix infinite loop triggered by zero-sized ATTR_LIST (CVE-2025-71267)

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

    smack: /smack/doi: accept previously used values (CVE-2025-71304)

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

    macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path (CVE-2026-23273)

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

    pstore: ram_core: fix incorrect success return when vmap() fails (CVE-2026-43124)

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

    iommu/vt-d: Flush dev-IOTLB only when PCIe device is accessible in scalable mode (CVE-2026-43130)

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

    KVM: nSVM: Always use vmcb01 in VMLOAD/VMSAVE emulation (CVE-2026-43133)

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

    xfrm6: fix uninitialized saddr in xfrm6_get_saddr() (CVE-2026-43139)

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

    Revert PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV (CVE-2026-43147)

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

    HID: hid-pl: handle probe errors (CVE-2026-43152)

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

    xfs: fix freemap adjustments when adding xattrs to leaf blocks (CVE-2026-43158)

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

    md/bitmap: fix GPF in write_page caused by resize race (CVE-2026-43163)

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

    EFI/CPER: don't dump the entire memory region (CVE-2026-43171)

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

    ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data() (CVE-2026-43186)

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

    xfs: delete attr leaf freemap entries when empty (CVE-2026-43187)

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

    netfilter: xt_tcpmss: check remaining length before reading optlen (CVE-2026-43190)

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

    net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames (CVE-2026-43194)

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

    PCI: Fix pci_slot_trylock() error handling (CVE-2026-43211)

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

    net/rds: No shortcut out of RDS_CONN_ERROR (CVE-2026-43226)

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

    net/rds: Clear reconnect pending bit (CVE-2026-43230)

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

    netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() (CVE-2026-43233)

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

    arm64: Add support for TSV110 Spectre-BHB mitigation (CVE-2026-43261)

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

    EFI/CPER: don't go past the ARM processor CPER record buffer (CVE-2026-43266)

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

    ceph: supply snapshot context in ceph_zero_partial_object() (CVE-2026-43273)

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

    APEI/GHES: ensure that won't go past CPER allocated record (CVE-2026-43277)

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

    drm: Account property blob allocations to memcg (CVE-2026-43287)

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

    kexec: derive purgatory entry from symbol (CVE-2026-43289)

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

    libceph: define and enforce CEPH_MAX_KEY_LEN (CVE-2026-43304)

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

    ACPI: processor: Fix NULL-pointer dereference in acpi_processor_errata_piix4() (CVE-2026-43313)

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

    dm: remove fake timeout to avoid leak request (CVE-2026-43314)

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

    KVM: nSVM: Remove a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() succeeding (CVE-2026-43315)

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

    net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE when accessing forward path array (CVE-2026-45847)

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

    RDMA/uverbs: Validate wqe_size before using it in ib_uverbs_post_send (CVE-2026-45856)

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

    netfilter: nf_conncount: increase the connection clean up limit to 64 (CVE-2026-45860)

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

    iommu/vt-d: Flush cache for PASID table before using it (CVE-2026-45862)

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

    fs/ntfs3: prevent infinite loops caused by the next valid being the same (CVE-2026-45864)

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

    SUNRPC: auth_gss: fix memory leaks in XDR decoding error paths (CVE-2026-45870)

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

    netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: check for partial overlaps in anonymous sets (CVE-2026-45873)

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

    xen-netback: reject zero-queue configuration from guest (CVE-2026-45890)

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

    ext4: don't cache extent during splitting extent (CVE-2026-45912)

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

    fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir (CVE-2026-45915)

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

    sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (CVE-2026-45919)

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

    fs/ntfs3: Fix slab-out-of-bounds read in DeleteIndexEntryRoot (CVE-2026-45935)

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

    ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_ext_shift_extents() (CVE-2026-45948)

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

    SUNRPC: fix gss_auth kref leak in gss_alloc_msg error path (CVE-2026-45964)

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

    cpuidle: Skip governor when only one idle state is available (CVE-2026-45968)

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

    bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down (CVE-2026-45970)

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

    btrfs: fix invalid leaf access in btrfs_quota_enable() if ref key not found (CVE-2026-45974)

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

    nfsd: never defer requests during idmap lookup (CVE-2026-45983)

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

    pstore/ram: fix buffer overflow in persistent_ram_save_old() (CVE-2026-46253)

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

    procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() (CVE-2026-46259)

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

    apparmor: fix rlimit for posix cpu timers (CVE-2026-46328)

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-5.15-2026-100 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2026-100)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 311145

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.1

Version 1.4 Jun 17, 2026, 9:08 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2025-71265,CVE-2025-71266,CVE-2025-71267,CVE-2025-71304,CVE-2026-23273,CVE-2026-43124,CVE-2026-43130,CVE-2026-43133,CVE-2026-43139,CVE-2026-43147,CVE-2026-43152,CVE-2026-43158,CVE-2026-43163,CVE-2026-43171,CVE-2026-43186,CVE-2026-43187,CVE-2026-43190,CVE-2026-43194,CVE-2026-43211,CVE-2026-43226,CVE-2026-43230,CVE-2026-43233,CVE-2026-43261,CVE-2026-43266,CVE-2026-43273,CVE-2026-43277,CVE-2026-43287,CVE-2026-43289,CVE-2026-43304,CVE-2026-43313,CVE-2026-43314,CVE-2026-43315,CVE-2026-45847,CVE-2026-45856,CVE-2026-45860,CVE-2026-45862,CVE-2026-45864,CVE-2026-45870,CVE-2026-45873,CVE-2026-45890,CVE-2026-45912,CVE-2026-45915,CVE-2026-45919,CVE-2026-45935,CVE-2026-45948,CVE-2026-45964,CVE-2026-45968,CVE-2026-45970,CVE-2026-45974,CVE-2026-45983,CVE-2026-46253,CVE-2026-46259,CVE-2026-46328") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2026-43315" to "CVE-2026-45983") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202606172108
Version 1.3 May 18, 2026, 10:04 AM CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2026-43277" to "CVE-2026-43315") Plugin Feed: 202605181004
Version 1.1 Apr 30, 2026, 4:16 PM New Plugin Feed: 202604301616