The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5276-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled permissions in the kernel mode     layer. A local attacker could use this issue to write to protected memory and cause a denial of service.

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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities (USN-5276-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 157456

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Version 1.9 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 1.8 Mar 8, 2024, 6:26 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202403081826
Version 1.7 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.6 Jul 11, 2023, 4:01 AM Detection Plugin Feed: 202307110401
Version 1.5 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901
Version 1.5 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM Detection Plugin Feed: 202307110148