The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5092-2 advisory.

    Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free     adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-41073)

    Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in the     Linux kernel missed possible mispredicted branches due to type confusion, allowing a side-channel attack.
    An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-33624)

    Benedict Schlueter discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly protect against     Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) side- channel attacks in some situations. A local attacker could possibly     use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-34556)

    Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly protect against     Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) side-channel attacks in some situations. A local attacker could possibly     use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-35477)

    It was discovered that the tracing subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly keep track of per-cpu     ring buffer state. A privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3679)

    It was discovered that the Option USB High Speed Mobile device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     handle error conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-37159)

    Alexey Kardashevskiy discovered that the KVM implementation for PowerPC systems in the Linux kernel did     not properly validate RTAS arguments in some situations. An attacker in a guest vm could use this to cause     a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-37576)

    It was discovered that the Virtio console implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     input lengths in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2021-38160)

    Michael Wakabayashi discovered that the NFSv4 client implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     order connection setup operations. An attacker controlling a remote NFS server could use this to cause a     denial of service on the client. (CVE-2021-38199)

    It was discovered that the Sun RPC implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds access     error. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2021-38201)

    It was discovered that the MAX-3421 host USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     device removal events. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2021-38204)

    It was discovered that the Xilinx 10/100 Ethernet Lite device driver in the Linux kernel could report     pointer addresses in some situations. An attacker could use this information to ease the exploitation of     another vulnerability. (CVE-2021-38205)

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-5092-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153799

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Version 1.6 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 1.5 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.4 Oct 23, 2023, 6:27 PM 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") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2021-38160" to "CVE-2021-41073") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310231827
Version 1.4 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.3 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901