The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6753 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * 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: ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_find_by_goal() (CVE-2024-26772)

    * kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_expr_type_get() (CVE-2024-27020)

    * kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_obj_type_get() (CVE-2024-27019)

    * kernel: ipv6: sr: fix out-of-bounds read when setting HMAC data. (CVE-2022-48687)

    * kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_flowtable_type_get() (CVE-2024-35898)

    * kernel: virtio-net: Add validation for used length (CVE-2021-47352)

    * kernel: mm, thp: bail out early in collapse_file for writeback page (CVE-2021-47492)

    * kernel: bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf (CVE-2024-41009)

    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
206008	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/21/2024	9/9/2024	high
207389	RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:6753)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	9/18/2024	1/15/2025	high

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