The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5644-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the framebuffer driver on the Linux kernel did not verify size limits when changing     font or screen size, leading to an out-of- bounds write. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-33655)

    Duoming Zhou discovered that race conditions existed in the timer handling implementation of the Linux     kernel's Rose X.25 protocol layer, resulting in use-after-free vulnerabilities. A local attacker could use     this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2022-2318)

    Roger Pau Monn discovered that the Xen virtual block driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize memory pages to be used for shared communication with the backend. A local attacker could use     this to expose sensitive information (guest kernel memory). (CVE-2022-26365)

    Roger Pau Monn discovered that the Xen paravirtualization frontend in the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize memory pages to be used for shared communication with the backend. A local attacker could use     this to expose sensitive information (guest kernel memory). (CVE-2022-33740)

    It was discovered that the Xen paravirtualization frontend in the Linux kernel incorrectly shared     unrelated data when communicating with certain backends. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (guest crash) or expose sensitive information (guest kernel memory). (CVE-2022-33741,     CVE-2022-33742)

    Jan Beulich discovered that the Xen network device frontend driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly handled     socket buffers (skb) references when communicating with certain backends. A local attacker could use this     to cause a denial of service (guest crash). (CVE-2022-33743)

    Oleksandr Tyshchenko discovered that the Xen paravirtualization platform in the Linux kernel on ARM     platforms contained a race condition in certain situations. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to     cause a denial of service in the host OS. (CVE-2022-33744)

    It was discovered that the virtio RPMSG bus driver in the Linux kernel contained a double-free     vulnerability in certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2022-34494, CVE-2022-34495)

    Domingo Dirutigliano and Nicola Guerrera discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did     not properly handle rules that truncated packets below the packet header size. When such rules are in     place, a remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2022-36946)

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 (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-5644-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165505

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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 Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.4 Oct 23, 2023, 6:27 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310231827
Version 1.4 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.3 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901