The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4946-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the DRM subsystem in the Linux kernel contained double-free vulnerabilities. A     privileged attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-20292)

    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)

    It was discovered that the Xen paravirtualization backend in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate     memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2021-28688)

    It was discovered that the Freescale Gianfar Ethernet driver for the Linux kernel did not properly handle     receive queue overrun when jumbo frames were enabled in some situations. An attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2021-29264)

    It was discovered that the USB/IP driver in the Linux kernel contained race conditions during the update     of local and shared status. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2021-29265)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when     replacing tables. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2021-29650)

    Arnd Bergmann discovered that the video4linux subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate     memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2021-30002)

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 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4946-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149410

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.8 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 1.7 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.6 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906
Version 1.5 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901