The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3582-2 advisory.

    USN-3582-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the     corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu     14.04 LTS.

    Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race     condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-17712)

    Laurent Guerby discovered that the mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystems in the Linux kernel     improperly handled xattr block caching. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2015-8952)

    Vitaly Mayatskikh discovered that the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly track reference     counts when merging buffers. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2017-12190)

    ChunYu Wang discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the SCTP protocol implementation in     the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly     execute arbitrary code, (CVE-2017-15115)

    Mohamed Ghannam discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the DCCP protocol implementation in the Linux     kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-8824)

    USN-3540-2 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre Variant 2) for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel mitigation for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3582-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106973

Version 3.16

Version 3.14

Version 3.13

Version 3.16 Oct 29, 2024, 5:54 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410291754
Version 3.14 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 3.13 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2017-8824") Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210506