It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-138 advisory.

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

    drm: Fix potential null-ptr-deref due to drmm_mode_config_init() (CVE-2022-50556)

    A double-free vulnerability was found in the handling of IORING_OP_SOCKET operation with io_uring on the     Linux kernel. (CVE-2023-1032)

    Due to a type confusion during initializations, the tun and tap sockets in the Linux Kernel have their     socket UID hardcoded to 0, i.e. root. While it will be often correct, as TUN/TAP devices require     CAP_NET_ADMIN, it may not always be the case. The socket UID may be used for network filtering and     routing, thus TUN/TAP sockets may be incorrectly managed, potentially bypassing network filters based on     UID. (CVE-2023-1076)

    kernel: Type confusion in pick_next_rt_entity(), which can result in memory corruption. (CVE-2023-1077)

    A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel integrated infrared receiver/transceiver driver was found in the     way user detaching rc device. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate     their privileges on the system. (CVE-2023-1118)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (tcindex) can be exploited     to achieve local privilege escalation. The tcindex_delete function which does not properly deactivate     filters in case of a perfect hashes while deleting the underlying structure which can later lead to double     freeing the structure. A local attacker user can use this vulnerability to elevate its privileges to     root.We recommend upgrading past commit 8c710f75256bb3cf05ac7b1672c82b92c43f3d28. (CVE-2023-1829)

    When plain IBRS is enabled (not enhanced IBRS), the logic in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation()     determines that STIBP is not needed. The IBRS bit implicitly protects against cross-thread branch     targetinjection. However, with legacy IBRS, the IBRS bit is cleared on returning to userspace for     performance reasons which leaves userspace threads vulnerable to cross-thread branch target injection     against which STIBP protects. (CVE-2023-1998)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in hfsplus_put_super in fs/hfsplus/super.c in the Linux Kernel. This flaw     could allow a local user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-2985)

    An issue was discovered in lib/kobject.c in the Linux kernel before 6.2.3. With root access, an attacker     can trigger a race condition that results in a fill_kobj_path out-of-bounds write. (CVE-2023-45863)

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

    vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec() (CVE-2023-53171)

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

    USB: uhci: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53197)

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

    netfilter: x_tables: fix percpu counter block leak on error path when creating new netns (CVE-2023-53200)

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

    PM: domains: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53202)

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

    driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld before return false (CVE-2023-53211)

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

    arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock (CVE-2023-53216)

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

    watchdog: Fix kmemleak in watchdog_cdev_register (CVE-2023-53234)

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

    xsk: check IFF_UP earlier in Tx path (CVE-2023-53240)

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

    firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in dmi_sysfs_register_handle (CVE-2023-53250)

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

    cacheinfo: Fix shared_cpu_map to handle shared caches at different levels (CVE-2023-53254)

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

    VMCI: check context->notify_page after call to get_user_pages_fast() to avoid GPF (CVE-2023-53259)

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

    misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53279)

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

    udf: Do not update file length for failed writes to inline files (CVE-2023-53295)

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

    rbd: avoid use-after-free in do_rbd_add() when rbd_dev_create() fails (CVE-2023-53307)

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

    genirq/ipi: Fix NULL pointer deref in irq_data_get_affinity_mask() (CVE-2023-53332)

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

    USB: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53359)

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

    block: be a bit more careful in checking for NULL bdev while polling (CVE-2023-53366)

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

    crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly (CVE-2023-53373)

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

    NFSD: fix leaked reference count of nfsd4_ssc_umount_item (CVE-2023-53381)

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

    drivers: base: dd: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53390)

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

    trace/blktrace: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53408)

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

    drivers: base: component: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53409)

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

    PM: EM: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (CVE-2023-53411)

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

    objtool: Fix memory leak in create_static_call_sections() (CVE-2023-53423)

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

    cifs: Fix warning and UAF when destroy the MR list (CVE-2023-53427)

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

    ipv6: Add lwtunnel encap size of all siblings in nexthop calculation (CVE-2023-53477)

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

    iommu: Fix error unwind in iommu_group_alloc() (CVE-2023-53482)

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

    crypto: xts - Handle EBUSY correctly (CVE-2023-53494)

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

    udf: Do not bother merging very long extents (CVE-2023-53506)

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

    io_uring: fix fget leak when fs don't support nowait buffered read (CVE-2023-53511)

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

    sctp: add a refcnt in sctp_stream_priorities to avoid a nested loop (CVE-2023-53590)

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

    driver core: fix resource leak in device_add() (CVE-2023-53594)

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

    nfsd: clean up potential nfsd_file refcount leaks in COPY codepath (CVE-2023-53606)

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

    irqchip: Fix refcount leak in platform_irqchip_probe (CVE-2023-53610)

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

    nvme-tcp: don't access released socket during error recovery (CVE-2023-53643)

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

    srcu: Delegate work to the boot cpu if using SRCU_SIZE_SMALL (CVE-2023-53671)

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

    drm/i915: Fix system suspend without fbdev being initialized (CVE-2023-53678)

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

    udf: Detect system inodes linked into directory hierarchy (CVE-2023-53695)

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

    ring-buffer: Handle race between rb_move_tail and rb_check_pages (CVE-2023-53709)

    kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (CVE-2023-7192)

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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - block: be a bit more careful in checking for NULL bdev while polling Wei reports a crash with an     application using polled IO: PGD 14265e067 P4D 14265e067 PUD 47ec50067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 0     PID: 21915 Comm: iocore_0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S 5.12.0-0_fbk12_clang_7346_g1bb6f2e7058f #1 Hardware     name: Wiwynn Delta Lake MP T8/Delta Lake-Class2, BIOS Y3DLM08 04/10/2022 RIP: 0010:bio_poll+0x25/0x200     Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 28 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00     48 89 44 24 20 48 8b 47 08 <48> 8b 80 70 02 00 00 4c 8b 70 50 8b 6f 34 31 db 83 fd ff 75 25 65 RSP:
    0018:ffffc90005fafdf8 EFLAGS: 00010292 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 74b43cd65dd66600     RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffffc90005fafe78 RDI: ffff8884b614e140 RBP: ffff88849964df78 R08:
    0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000008 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88849964df00     R13: ffffc90005fafe78 R14: ffff888137d3c378 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00007fd195000640(0000)     GS:ffff88903f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2:
    0000000000000270 CR3: 0000000466121001 CR4: 00000000007706f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000     DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554     Call Trace: iocb_bio_iopoll+0x1d/0x30 io_do_iopoll+0xac/0x250 __se_sys_io_uring_enter+0x3c5/0x5a0 ?
    __x64_sys_write+0x89/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x40 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP:
    0033:0x94f225d Code: 24 cc 00 00 00 41 8b 84 24 d0 00 00 00 c1 e0 04 83 e0 10 41 09 c2 8b 33 8b 53 04 4c     8b 43 18 4c 63 4b 0c b8 aa 01 00 00 0f 05 <85> c0 0f 88 85 00 00 00 29 03 45 84 f6 0f 84 88 00 00 00 41 f6     c7 RSP: 002b:00007fd194ffcd88 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001aa RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX:
    00007fd194ffcdc0 RCX: 00000000094f225d RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000007     RBP: 00007fd194ffcdb0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000008 R10: 0000000000000001 R11:
    0000000000000202 R12: 00007fd269d68030 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000     which is due to bio->bi_bdev being NULL. This can happen if we have two tasks doing polled IO, and task B     ends up completing IO from task A if they are sharing a poll queue. If task B completes the IO and puts     the bio into our cache, then it can allocate that bio again before task A is done polling for it. As that     would necessitate a preempt between the two tasks, it's enough to just be a bit more careful in checking     for whether or not bio->bi_bdev is NULL. (CVE-2023-53366)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
173340	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-138)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	3/23/2023	11/6/2025	high
265593	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53366	Nessus	Misc.	9/20/2025	10/28/2025	medium

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