The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5417-1 advisory.

    Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira     Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient     in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2021-26401)

    It was discovered that the MMC/SD subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle read errors from     SD cards in certain situations. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2022-20008)

    It was discovered that the USB gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate interface     descriptor requests. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2022-25258)

    It was discovered that the Remote NDIS (RNDIS) USB gadget implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. An attacker could possibly use this to expose     sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2022-25375)

    It was discovered that the ST21NFCA NFC driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the size of     certain data in EVT_TRANSACTION events. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-26490)

    It was discovered that the USB SR9700 ethernet device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly     validate the length of requests from the device. A physically proximate attacker could possibly use this     to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2022-26966)

    It was discovered that the Xilinx USB2 device gadget driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     endpoint indices from the host. A physically proximate attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash). (CVE-2022-27223)

    Miaoqian Lin discovered that the RDMA Transport (RTRS) client implementation in the Linux kernel contained     a double-free when handling certain error conditions. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2022-29156)

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-5417-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161064

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Version 1.7 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 1.6 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Plugin metadata Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.5 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin metadata Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202310210506
Version 1.5 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.4 Jul 11, 2023, 4:01 AM Detection Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202307110401
Version 1.3 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901
Version 1.3 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM Detection Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202307110148