The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5265-1 advisory.

    Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device     removal. A privileged or physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2020-27820)

    It was discovered that the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free     vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3640)

    Likang Luo discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem of the Linux kernel,     leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3752)

    It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly verify VTAGs     in some situations. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (connection     disassociation). (CVE-2021-3772)

    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)

    It was discovered that the NFS server implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write     vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-4090)

    Felix Wilhelm discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle exit     events from AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES) guest VMs. An attacker in a guest     VM could use this to cause a denial of service (host kernel crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code in     the host kernel. (CVE-2021-4093)

    Lin Ma discovered that the NFC Controller Interface (NCI) implementation in the Linux kernel contained a     race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-4202)

    It was discovered that the AMD Radeon GPU driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate writes in     the debugfs file system. A privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash)     or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-42327)

    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)

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-5265-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 157351

Version 1.10

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Version 1.6

Version 1.10 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 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: 202408282302
Version 1.9 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.8 Oct 21, 2023, 3:09 AM Plugin requirements Plugin metadata Detection Plugin Feed: 202310210309
Version 1.7 Jul 11, 2023, 4:01 AM 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") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202307110401
Version 1.6 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901
Version 1.6 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202307110148