The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4983-1 advisory.

    Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly enforce limits     for pointer operations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-33200)

    Piotr Krysiuk and Benedict Schlueter discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel performed     out of bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-29155)

    Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent     speculative loads in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2021-31829)

    Reiji Watanabe discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent     user space from tampering with an array index value, leading to a potential out-of-bounds write. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2021-3501)

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 (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-4983-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150234

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