The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4949-1 advisory.

    Ryota Shiga discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly verify that a BPF     program only reserved as much memory for a ring buffer as was allocated. A local attacker could use this     to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3489)

    Manfred Paul discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly track bounds on     bitwise operations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3490)

    Billy Jheng Bing-Jhong discovered that the io_uring implementation of the Linux kernel did not properly     enforce the MAX_RW_COUNT limit in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3491)

    It was discovered that the Nouveau GPU driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle error conditions     in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2020-25639)

    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)

    It was discovered that the fastrpc driver in the Linux kernel did not prevent user space applications from     sending kernel RPC messages. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain elevated privileges.
    (CVE-2021-28375)

    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 the vDPA backend virtio driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free     vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-29266)

    It was discovered that the TIPC protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     passed encryption key sizes. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2021-29646)

    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)

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 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4949-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149411

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Version 1.10 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 1.9 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.8 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210506
Version 1.8 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.7 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901
Version 1.6 Jan 17, 2023, 1:55 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202301171355
Version 1.5 Nov 7, 2022, 3:54 PM Exploit attributes CVSS temporal metrics Plugin Feed: 202211071554