The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4258-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15099)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Virtual Video Test Driver in the Linux kernel. An     attacker with write access to /dev/video0 on a system with the vivid module loaded could possibly use this     to gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2019-18683)

    It was discovered that the btrfs file system in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata,     leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image     that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-18885)

    It was discovered that the crypto subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in     certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19050, CVE-2019-19062)

    It was discovered that the RSI 91x WLAN device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate     memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel     memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19071)

    It was discovered that the Broadcom Netxtreme HCA device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19077)

    It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause     a denial of service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19078)

    It was discovered that the Qualcomm IPC Router TUN device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     deallocate memory in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19079)

    It was discovered that the AMD GPU device drivers in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory     in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to possibly cause a denial of service (kernel     memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19082)

    Dan Carpenter discovered that the AppleTalk networking subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly     handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-19227)

    Or Cohen discovered that the virtual console subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict     writes to unimplemented vcsu (unicode) devices. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash) or have other unspecified impacts. (CVE-2019-19252)

    It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle ioctl     requests to get emulated CPUID features. An attacker with access to /dev/kvm could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-19332)

    It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     certain conditions. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that, when mounted,     could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-19767)

    It was discovered that the B2C2 FlexCop USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2019-15291)

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 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4258-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 133354

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Version 1.9 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 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: 202408281943
Version 1.8 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.7 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") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2019-19252") 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 1.7 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856