The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4689-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display driver for the Linux kernel contained a vulnerability that     allowed user-mode clients to access legacy privileged APIs. A local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service or escalate privileges. (CVE-2021-1052)

    It was discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display driver for the Linux kernel did not properly validate a     pointer received from userspace in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2021-1053)

    Xinyuan Lyu discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display driver for the Linux kernel did not properly restrict     device-level GPU isolation. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly     expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-1056)

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 / 20.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities (USN-4689-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144897

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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 Mar 8, 2024, 6:26 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202403081826
Version 1.7 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") 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") Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906
Version 1.6 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901