An update of the linux package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5255 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw amd: Return Address Predictor vulnerability leading to information disclosure (AMD-     SN-7005,CVE-2023-20569,RAS)

    * kernel: tls: race between tx work scheduling and socket close (CVE-2024-26585)

    * kernel: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests (CVE-2024-26584)

    * kernel: tls: race between async notify and socket close (CVE-2024-26583)

    * kernel: gfs2: Fix kernel NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_rgrp_dump (CVE-2023-52448)

    * kernel: vt: fix memory overlapping when deleting chars in the buffer (CVE-2022-48627)

    * kernel: net/sched: act_ct: fix skb leak and crash on ooo frags (CVE-2023-52610)

    * kernel: tcp: add sanity checks to rx zerocopy (CVE-2024-26640)

    * kernel: fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats (CVE-2024-26686)

    * kernel: ext4: fix double-free of blocks due to wrong extents moved_len (CVE-2024-26704)

    * kernel: ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_try_best_found() (CVE-2024-26773)

    * kernel: arp: Prevent overflow in arp_req_get(). (CVE-2024-26733)

    * kernel: NFSv4.2: fix nfs4_listxattr kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102 (CVE-2024-26870)

    * kernel: TIPC message reassembly use-after-free remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-36886)

    * kernel: Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero (CVE-2024-26982)

    * kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix memory leak when canceling rehash work (CVE-2024-35852)

    * kernel: tcp: properly terminate timers for kernel sockets (CVE-2024-35910)

    * kernel: mm/hugetlb: fix missing hugetlb_lock for resv uncharge (CVE-2024-36000)

    * kernel: i40e: fix vf may be used uninitialized in this function warning (CVE-2024-36020)

    * kernel: net: CVE-2024-36971 kernel: UAF in network route management (CVE-2024-36971)

    * kernel: net/mlx5: Discard command completions in internal error (CVE-2024-38555)

    * kernel: net: bridge: xmit: make sure we have at least eth header len bytes (CVE-2024-38538)

    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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
202681	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1984)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	7/18/2024	7/19/2024	high
202959	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-2038)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	7/22/2024	9/29/2025	high
203787	Photon OS 3.0: Linux PHSA-2024-3.0-0744	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/24/2024	8/10/2026	medium
205470	RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:5255)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	8/13/2024	3/6/2025	high
198091	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1734)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/29/2024	9/29/2025	high
198313	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1788)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	9/29/2025	high

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