The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5207-1 advisory.

    Nadav Amit discovered that the hugetlb implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform TLB flushes     under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to leak or alter data from other processes that     use huge pages. (CVE-2021-4002)

    It was discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition around read-     only maps. A privileged attacker could use this to modify read-only maps. (CVE-2021-4001)

    Luo Likang discovered that the FireDTV Firewire driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds     checking in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash)     or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-42739)

    It was discovered that the TIPC Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     MSG_CRYPTO messages in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-43267)

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-5207-1)

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