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-4426-1 advisory.

    Jason A. Donenfeld discovered that the ACPI implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict     loading SSDT code from an EFI variable. A privileged attacker could use this to bypass Secure Boot     lockdown restrictions and execute arbitrary code in the kernel. (CVE-2019-20908)

    Fan Yang discovered that the mremap implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle DAX Huge     Pages. A local attacker with access to DAX storage could use this to gain administrative privileges.
    (CVE-2020-10757)

    Mauricio Faria de Oliveira discovered that the aufs implementation in the Linux kernel improperly managed     inode reference counts in the vfsub_dentry_open() method. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to     cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-11935)

    Jason A. Donenfeld discovered that the ACPI implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict     loading ACPI tables via configfs. A privileged attacker could use this to bypass Secure Boot lockdown     restrictions and execute arbitrary code in the kernel. (CVE-2020-15780)

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-4426-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138835

Version 1.8