The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6132-1 advisory.

    Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the     Linux kernel when processing batch requests, 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-2023-32233)

    Gwangun Jung discovered that the Quick Fair Queueing scheduler 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-2023-31436)

    Reima Ishii discovered that the nested KVM implementation for Intel x86 processors in the Linux kernel did     not properly validate control registers in certain situations. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to     cause a denial of service (guest crash). (CVE-2023-30456)

    It was discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC USB WiFi driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform     data buffer size validation in some situations. A physically proximate attacker could use this to craft a     malicious USB device that when inserted, could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly expose     sensitive information. (CVE-2023-1380)

    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)

    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 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 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)

    Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux kernel contained a race     condition when handling inode locking in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (kernel deadlock). (CVE-2023-2612)

    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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6132-1)

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Version 1.5 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 1.4 Mar 5, 2024, 1:15 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202403050115
Version 1.3 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.2 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210506
Version 1.2 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.1 Aug 23, 2023, 4:09 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202308231609
Version 1.0 Jun 2, 2023, 2:47 AM New Plugin Feed: 202306020247