Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2026-130 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2026-130)

high Nessus Plugin ID 341859

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.265-265.1078. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2026-130 advisory.

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

tls: separate no-async decryption request handling from async (CVE-2024-58240)

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

xsk: Fix race condition in AF_XDP generic RX path (CVE-2025-37920)

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

libceph: Fix slab-out-of-bounds access in auth message processing (CVE-2026-46119)

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

bpf: Fix ld_{abs,ind} failure path analysis in subprogs (CVE-2026-53090)

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

nvmet: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds heap read in Discovery Get Log Page (CVE-2026-64320)

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

tipc: fix use-after-free of the discoverer in tipc_disc_rcv() (CVE-2026-64543)

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

KVM: nVMX: Hide shadow VMCS right after VMCLEAR (CVE-2026-64562)

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

rhashtable: clear stale iter->p on table restart (CVE-2026-64563)

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

sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing (CVE-2026-64564)

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

btrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages (CVE-2026-64567)

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

ipv4: fib: free fib_alias with kfree_rcu() on insert error path (CVE-2026-64572)

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

xfrm: policy: preallocate inexact bins before xfrm_hash_rebuild reinsert (CVE-2026-64579)

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

xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy() (CVE-2026-64581)

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

RDMA/rxe: Fix a use-after-free problem in rxe_mmap (CVE-2026-64582)

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

tipc: clear sock->sk on the failed-insert path in tipc_sk_create() (CVE-2026-68117)

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

pppoe: reload header pointer after dev_hard_header() (CVE-2026-68121)

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

openvswitch: fix GSO userspace truncation underflow (CVE-2026-68123)

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

ila: reload IPv6 header after pskb_may_pull in checksum adjust (CVE-2026-68127)

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

rbd: Reset positive result codes to zero in object map update path (CVE-2026-68131)

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

net/sched: serialize qdisc_rtab_list against concurrent get/put (CVE-2026-68138)

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

geneve: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink (CVE-2026-68142)

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

net: slip: serialize receive against buffer reallocation (CVE-2026-68143)

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

libceph: remove debugfs files before client teardown (CVE-2026-68153)

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

libceph: reject zero bucket types in crush_decode (CVE-2026-68154)

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

libceph: Reject monmaps advertising zero monitors (CVE-2026-68155)

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

libceph: refresh auth->authorizer_buf{,_len} after authorizer update (CVE-2026-68156)

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

libceph: guard missing CRUSH type name lookup (CVE-2026-68157)

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

libceph: Fix multiplication overflow in decode_new_up_state_weight() (CVE-2026-68158)

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

ceph: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds read on snaptrace in ceph_handle_caps() (CVE-2026-68160)

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

cdrom: fix stack out-of-bounds read in CDROMVOLCTRL (CVE-2026-68184)

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

binfmt_misc: set have_execfd only once the interpreter is opened (CVE-2026-68186)

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

bpf, sockmap: Fix cork use-after-free in tcp_bpf_sendmsg() (CVE-2026-68284)

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

tipc: fix u16 MTU truncation in media and bearer MTU validation (CVE-2026-68297)

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

vmxnet3: fix BUG_ON in vmxnet3_get_hdr_len() for Geneve packets (CVE-2026-68299)

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

sctp: auth: verify auth requirement when auth_chunk is NULL (CVE-2026-68300)

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

tipc: fix infinite loop in __tipc_nl_compat_dumpit (CVE-2026-68313)

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

sctp: validate stream count in sctp_process_strreset_inreq() (CVE-2026-68315)

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

sctp: fix auth_chunk_list capacity check in sctp_auth_ep_add_chunkid (CVE-2026-68320)

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

rds: Fix inet6_addr_lst NULL dereference when IPv6 is disabled (CVE-2026-68322)

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

iommu/amd: Bound the early ACPI HID map (CVE-2026-68325)

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

rds: drop incoming messages that cross network namespace boundaries (CVE-2026-68335)

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

net/packet: avoid fanout hook re-registration after unregister (CVE-2026-68338)

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

USB: serial: io_edgeport: cap received transmit credits (CVE-2026-68365)

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

sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie (CVE-2026-68376)

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

net/sched: act_tunnel_key: Defer dst_release to RCU callback (CVE-2026-68377)

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

smb/client: handle overlapping allocated ranges in fallocate (CVE-2026-68388)

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

ppp: defer channel free to an RCU grace period to fix pppol2tp RX UAF (CVE-2026-68398)

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

bpf: Fix UAF in sock clone early bailouts (CVE-2026-68399)

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

IB/mad: Drop unmatched RMPP responses before reassembly (CVE-2026-68425)

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

KVM: x86/mmu: Fix use-after-free on vendor module reload (CVE-2026-68428)

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

vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink (CVE-2026-68432)

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

libceph: bound get_version reply decode to front len (CVE-2026-68433)

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

x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection (CVE-2026-68480)

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

macsec: don't read an unset MAC header in macsec_encrypt() (CVE-2026-72019)

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

net: ip6_tunnel: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink (CVE-2026-72051)

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

net: ipip: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink (CVE-2026-72053)

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

cpu: hotplug: Bound hotplug states sysfs output (CVE-2026-72066)

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

can: bcm: add missing device refcount for CAN filter removal (CVE-2026-72113)

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

can: bcm: validate frame length in bcm_rx_setup() for RTR replies (CVE-2026-72114)

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

can: bcm: track a single source interface for ANYDEV timeout/throttle ops (CVE-2026-72115)

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

can: bcm: fix stale rx/tx ops after device removal (CVE-2026-72116)

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

can: bcm: fix data race on rx_stamp/rx_ifindex in bcm_rx_handler() (CVE-2026-72117)

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

can: bcm: fix CAN frame rx/tx statistics (CVE-2026-72118)

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

can: bcm: extend bcm_tx_lock usage for data and timer updates (CVE-2026-72119)

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

can: bcm: add locking when updating filter and timer values (CVE-2026-72121)

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

can: bcm: defer rx_op deallocation to workqueue to fix thrtimer UAF (CVE-2026-72123)

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

ipv6: fib6: fix NULL deref in fib6_walk_continue() on multi-batch dump (CVE-2026-72392)

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

tipc: reject inverted service ranges from peer bindings (CVE-2026-74281)

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

net: openvswitch: fix skb leak on flow key update failure during ct (CVE-2026-74464)

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

net: openvswitch: fix potential UAF on meter attach failure (CVE-2026-74465)

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

sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow (CVE-2026-74469)

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

tracing: Check return value of __register_event() in trace_module_add_events() (CVE-2026-74471)

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

vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() in route_shortcircuit() (CVE-2026-74473)

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

vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit() (CVE-2026-74475)

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

net: bridge: stop fast-leave after deleting a port group (CVE-2026-74480)

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

mm/page_reporting: use system_freezable_wq to fix UAF during suspend (CVE-2026-74481)

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

mm/huge_memory: unlock i_mmap_rwsem before releasing after-split folios (CVE-2026-74482)

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

binfmt_misc: reject a flag character as the field delimiter (CVE-2026-74485)

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

tipc: avoid use-after-free in poll trace queue dumps (CVE-2026-74490)

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

netfilter: ipset: do not update comments from kernel-side hash adds (CVE-2026-74492)

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

igbvf: Fix leak in TX DMA error cleanup (CVE-2026-74495)

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

audit: fix potential use-after-free in audit_del_rule() (CVE-2026-74512)

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

mm/hugetlb: fix list corruption in allocate_file_region_entries() (CVE-2026-74518)

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

pinctrl: devicetree: don't free uninitialized dev_name on error path (CVE-2026-74519)

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

qede: sync udp_tunnel ports outside qede_lock in the recovery path (CVE-2026-74523)

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

hwmon: (adt7470) Fix busy-loop and I2C flooding in update thread (CVE-2026-74547)

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

hwmon: (nct6775-core) Prevent access to unsupported weight registers (CVE-2026-74549)

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

scsi: libiscsi_tcp: Bound SCSI Response data segment to the connection buffer (CVE-2026-74556)

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

scsi: libiscsi: Fix stale-data leak into the SCSI sense buffer (CVE-2026-74557)

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

rds: tcp: hold the RCU lock across ipv6_chk_addr() in rds_tcp_laddr_check() (CVE-2026-74563)

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

netfilter: xt_hashlimit: validate hashtable supports XT_HASHLIMIT_RATE_MATCH (CVE-2026-74564)

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

keys: make keyring key-chunk byte order agree with keyring_diff_objects() (CVE-2026-74566)

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

keys: fix out-of-bounds read in keyring_get_key_chunk() (CVE-2026-74567)

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

netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: widen NAT rewrite delta to s32 in sip_help_tcp() (CVE-2026-74569)

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

net: mpls: initialize rtm_tos in mpls_getroute() (CVE-2026-74577)

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

netfilter: nft_payload: fix mask build for partial field offload (CVE-2026-74579)

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

vhost: reset the vring metadata cache on vring reconfiguration (CVE-2026-74580)

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

netfilter: bridge: release template ct on non-IP path (CVE-2026-74625)

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.

Solution

Run 'yum update kernel' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2026-130' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 341859

File Name: al2_ALASKERNEL-5_10-2026-130.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/31/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.36

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-58240

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-livepatch-5.10.265-265.1078, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-perf

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-58240, CVE-2025-37920, CVE-2026-46119, CVE-2026-53090, CVE-2026-64320, CVE-2026-64543, CVE-2026-64562, CVE-2026-64563, CVE-2026-64564, CVE-2026-64567, CVE-2026-64572, CVE-2026-64579, CVE-2026-64581, CVE-2026-64582, CVE-2026-68117, CVE-2026-68121, CVE-2026-68123, CVE-2026-68127, CVE-2026-68131, CVE-2026-68138, CVE-2026-68142, CVE-2026-68143, CVE-2026-68153, CVE-2026-68154, CVE-2026-68155, CVE-2026-68156, CVE-2026-68157, CVE-2026-68158, CVE-2026-68160, CVE-2026-68184, CVE-2026-68186, CVE-2026-68284, CVE-2026-68297, CVE-2026-68299, CVE-2026-68300, CVE-2026-68313, CVE-2026-68315, CVE-2026-68320, CVE-2026-68322, CVE-2026-68325, CVE-2026-68335, CVE-2026-68338, CVE-2026-68365, CVE-2026-68376, CVE-2026-68377, CVE-2026-68388, CVE-2026-68398, CVE-2026-68399, CVE-2026-68425, CVE-2026-68428, CVE-2026-68432, CVE-2026-68433, CVE-2026-68480, CVE-2026-72019, CVE-2026-72051, CVE-2026-72053, CVE-2026-72066, CVE-2026-72113, CVE-2026-72114, CVE-2026-72115, CVE-2026-72116, CVE-2026-72117, CVE-2026-72118, CVE-2026-72119, CVE-2026-72121, CVE-2026-72123, CVE-2026-72392, CVE-2026-74281, CVE-2026-74464, CVE-2026-74465, CVE-2026-74469, CVE-2026-74471, CVE-2026-74473, CVE-2026-74475, CVE-2026-74480, CVE-2026-74481, CVE-2026-74482, CVE-2026-74485, CVE-2026-74490, CVE-2026-74492, CVE-2026-74495, CVE-2026-74512, CVE-2026-74518, CVE-2026-74519, CVE-2026-74523, CVE-2026-74547, CVE-2026-74549, CVE-2026-74556, CVE-2026-74557, CVE-2026-74563, CVE-2026-74564, CVE-2026-74566, CVE-2026-74567, CVE-2026-74569, CVE-2026-74577, CVE-2026-74579, CVE-2026-74580, CVE-2026-74625

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