The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3597-2 advisory.

    USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the     corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04     LTS.

    USNS 3541-2 and 3523-2 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753,     CVE-2017-5754) for the i386, amd64, and ppc64el architectures for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides     the corresponding mitigations for the arm64 architecture.

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 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3597-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108372

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