The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6079-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could speculatively execute     instructions using a return address from a sibling thread. A local attacker could possibly use this to     expose sensitive information. (CVE-2022-27672)

    Ziming Zhang discovered that the VMware Virtual GPU DRM driver 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).
    (CVE-2022-36280)

    Zheng Wang discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     certain error conditions, leading to a double-free. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2022-3707)

    Haowei Yan discovered that a race condition existed in the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)     implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2022-4129)

    It was discovered that the NTFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel contained a null pointer     dereference in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2022-4842)

    It was discovered that the NTFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     attributes in certain situations, leading to an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. A local attacker could     use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2022-48423)

    It was discovered that the NTFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     attributes in certain situations, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could     possibly use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2022-48424)

    It was discovered that the KSMBD implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate buffer     lengths, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-0210)

    Kyle Zeng discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a NULL pointer dereference     vulnerability in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2023-0394)

    Jordy Zomer and Alexandra Sandulescu discovered that syscalls invoking the do_prlimit() function in the     Linux kernel did not properly handle speculative execution barriers. A local attacker could use this to     expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-0458)

    Jordy Zomer and Alexandra Sandulescu discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly implement     speculative execution barriers in usercopy functions in certain situations. A local attacker could use     this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-0459)

    It was discovered that the Human Interface Device (HID) support driver in the Linux kernel contained a     type confusion vulnerability in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2023-1073)

    It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel. A     local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2023-1074)

    It was discovered that the TLS subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a type confusion vulnerability in     some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly     expose sensitive information. (CVE-2023-1075)

    It was discovered that the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel     contained a type confusion vulnerability in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-1078)

    Xingyuan Mo discovered that the x86 KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize     some data structures. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory).
    (CVE-2023-1513)

    It was discovered that the NFS implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle pending tasks in     some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or expose     sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-1652)

    It was discovered that the ARM64 EFI runtime services implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     manage concurrency calls. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-21102)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in Adreno GPU DRM driver in the Linux kernel, leading to a     double-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2023-21106)

    It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the iSCSI TCP implementation in the Linux     kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2023-2162)

    Kyle Zeng discovered that the class-based queuing discipline implementation in the Linux kernel contained     a type confusion vulnerability in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2023-23454)

    Kyle Zeng discovered that the ATM VC queuing discipline implementation in the Linux kernel contained a     type confusion vulnerability in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2023-23455)

    It was discovered that the NTFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     the size of attributes when parsing MFT. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-26544)

    It was discovered that the NET/ROM protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition     in some situations, 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-2023-32269)

    Duoming Zhou discovered that a race condition existed in the infrared receiver/transceiver driver in the     Linux kernel, leading to a use-after- free vulnerability. A privileged attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-1118)

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 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6079-1)

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Version 1.3 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
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