The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4904-1 advisory.

    Ben Harris discovered that the Linux kernel would strip extended privilege attributes of files when     performing a failed unprivileged system call. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2015-1350)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the video4linux driver for Hauppauge HD PVR USB devices in the Linux     kernel did not properly handle some error conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16644)

    It was discovered that the timer stats implementation in the Linux kernel allowed the discovery of a real     PID value while inside a PID namespace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2017-5967)

    Wen Xu discovered that the xfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     the number of extents in an inode. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that,     when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-13095)

    It was discovered that the Fujitsu ES network device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly check     for errors in some situations, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-16231)

    It was discovered that the Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     check for errors in certain situations, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could     possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-16232)

    It was discovered that the ADIS16400 IIO IMU Driver for the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate     memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19061)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the floppy device driver in the Linux kernel. An     attacker with access to the floppy device could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-20261)

    Olivier Benjamin, Norbert Manthey, Martin Mazein, and Jan H. Schnherr discovered that the Xen     paravirtualization backend in the Linux kernel did not properly propagate errors to frontend drivers in     some situations. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (host     domain crash). (CVE-2021-26930)

    Jan Beulich discovered that multiple Xen backends in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain     error conditions under paravirtualization. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a     denial of service (host domain crash). (CVE-2021-26931)

    Jan Beulich discovered that the Xen netback backend in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain     error conditions under paravirtualization. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a     denial of service (host domain crash). (CVE-2021-28038)

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-4904-1)

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