The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4427-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Kvaser CAN/USB driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in     certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information (kernel     memory). (CVE-2019-19947)

    Chuhong Yuan discovered that go7007 USB audio device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     deallocate memory in some failure conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-20810)

    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)

    It was discovered that the elf handling code in the Linux kernel did not initialize memory before using it     in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to possibly expose sensitive information (kernel     memory). (CVE-2020-10732)

    It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly apply Speculative Store Bypass Disable (SSBD)     mitigations in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive     information. (CVE-2020-10766)

    It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly apply Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB)     mitigations in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive     information. (CVE-2020-10767)

    It was discovered that the Linux kernel could incorrectly enable Indirect Branch Speculation after it has     been disabled for a process via a prctl() call. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose     sensitive information. (CVE-2020-10768)

    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)

    It was discovered that the Virtual Terminal keyboard driver in the Linux kernel contained an integer     overflow. A local attacker could possibly use this to have an unspecified impact. (CVE-2020-13974)

    It was discovered that the efi subsystem in the Linux kernel did not handle memory allocation failures     during early boot in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2019-12380)

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-4427-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138836

Version 1.9

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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 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.7 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin metadata 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") Plugin Feed: 202310210506