The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4115-1 advisory.

    Hui Peng and Mathias Payer discovered that the Option USB High Speed driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate metadata received from the device. A physically proximate attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-19985)

    Zhipeng Xie discovered that an infinite loop could be triggered in the CFS Linux kernel process scheduler.
    A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-20784)

    It was discovered that the Intel Wi-Fi device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate certain     Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS). A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (Wi-Fi disconnect). (CVE-2019-0136)

    It was discovered that the Bluetooth UART implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check for     missing tty operations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-10207)

    Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas discovered that the Linux kernel did not sufficiently randomize IP ID values     generated for connectionless networking protocols. A remote attacker could use this to track particular     Linux devices. (CVE-2019-10638)

    Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas discovered that the location of kernel addresses could be exposed by the     implementation of connection-less network protocols in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could possibly     use this to assist in the exploitation of another vulnerability in the Linux kernel. (CVE-2019-10639)

    It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the Linux kernel when reference counting pages,     leading to potential use-after-free issues. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11487)

    Jann Horn discovered that a race condition existed in the Linux kernel when performing core dumps. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2019-11599)

    It was discovered that a null pointer dereference vulnerability existed in the LSI Logic MegaRAID driver     in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2019-11810)

    It was discovered that the GTCO tablet input driver in the Linux kernel did not properly bounds check the     initial HID report sent by the device. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-13631)

    Praveen Pandey discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly validate sent signals in some situations     on PowerPC systems with transactional memory disabled. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2019-13648)

    It was discovered that the floppy driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta data, leading     to a buffer overread. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2019-14283)

    It was discovered that the floppy driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate ioctl() calls,     leading to a division-by-zero. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2019-14284)

    Tuba Yavuz discovered that a race condition existed in the DesignWare USB3 DRD Controller device driver in     the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2019-14763)

    It was discovered that an out-of-bounds read existed in the QLogic QEDI iSCSI Initiator Driver in the     Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory).
    (CVE-2019-15090)

    It was discovered that the Raremono AM/FM/SW radio device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     allocate memory, leading to a use-after-free. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-15211)

    It was discovered at a double-free error existed in the USB Rio 500 device driver for the Linux kernel. A     physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-15212)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) subsystem     of the Linux kernel, leading to a potential use-after-free. A physically proximate attacker could use this     to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-15214)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the CPiA2 video4linux device driver for the Linux     kernel, leading to a use-after-free. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-15215)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Softmac USB Prism54 device driver in the Linux     kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2019-15220)

    It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AppleTalk implementation in the Linux     kernel if an error occurs during initialization. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15292)

    Jason Wang discovered that an infinite loop vulnerability existed in the virtio net driver in the Linux     kernel. A local attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a denial of service in the host     system. (CVE-2019-3900)

    Daniele Antonioli, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, and Kasper B. Rasmussen discovered that the Bluetooth protocol     BR/EDR specification did not properly require sufficiently strong encryption key lengths. A physically     proximate attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2019-9506)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the USB YUREX device driver in the Linux kernel. A     physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15216)

    It was discovered that the Siano USB MDTV receiver device driver in the Linux kernel made improper     assumptions about the device characteristics. A physically proximate attacker could use this cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15218)

    It was discovered that the Line 6 POD USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate data     size information from the device. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15221)

    Muyu Yu discovered that the CAN implementation in the Linux kernel in some situations did not properly     restrict the field size when processing outgoing frames. A local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges     could use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-3701)

    Vladis Dronov discovered that the debug interface for the Linux kernel's HID subsystem did not properly     validate passed parameters in some situations. A local privileged attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (infinite loop). (CVE-2019-3819)

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 / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4115-1)

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Version 1.10 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408282302
Version 1.9 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.8 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-15292") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2018-20784") Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906
Version 1.4 Dec 6, 2022, 1:01 AM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212060101