The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4163-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ARC EMAC ethernet driver for the Linux kernel,     resulting in a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2016-10906)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the     Linux kernel when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (kernel deadlock). (CVE-2017-18232)

    It was discovered that the RSI 91x Wi-Fi driver in the Linux kernel did not did not handle detach     operations correctly, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could use     this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-21008)

    Wen Huang discovered that the Marvell Wi-Fi device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform     bounds checking, leading to a heap overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14816)

    Matt Delco discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform     bounds checking when handling coalesced MMIO write operations. A local attacker with write access to     /dev/kvm could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-14821)

    Hui Peng and Mathias Payer discovered that the USB audio driver for the Linux kernel did not properly     validate device meta data. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2019-15117)

    Hui Peng and Mathias Payer discovered that the USB audio driver for the Linux kernel improperly performed     recursion while handling device meta data. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15118)

    It was discovered that the Technisat DVB-S/S2 USB device driver in the Linux kernel contained a buffer     overread. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2019-15505)

    Brad Spengler discovered that a Spectre mitigation was improperly implemented in the ptrace susbsystem of     the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2019-15902)

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 vulnerabilities (USN-4163-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 130152

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Version 1.8 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408282302
Version 1.7 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.6 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-15505") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210506
Version 1.6 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856