The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6312-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the netlink implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate policies     when parsing attributes in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (infinite recursion). (CVE-2020-36691)

    Billy Jheng Bing Jhong discovered that the CIFS network file system implementation in the Linux kernel did     not properly validate arguments to ioctl() in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2022-0168)

    It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free     vulnerability. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 file system image that, when     mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2022-1184)

    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)

    William Zhao discovered that the Traffic Control (TC) subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly     handle network packet retransmission in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (kernel deadlock). (CVE-2022-4269)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the qdisc implementation in the Linux kernel, 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-2023-0590)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the btrfs file system implementation in the Linux     kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2023-1611)

    It was discovered that the APM X-Gene SoC hardware monitoring driver in the Linux kernel contained a race     condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-1855)

    It was discovered that the ST NCI NFC driver did not properly handle device removal events. A physically     proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-1990)

    It was discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform     metadata validation when mounting certain images. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file     system image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-2124)

    It was discovered that the SLIMpro I2C device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate user-     supplied data in some situations, leading to an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. A privileged attacker     could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2023-2194)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the TLS subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a     use-after-free or a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-28466)

    It was discovered that the DA9150 charger driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle device     removal, leading to a user-after free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-30772)

    It was discovered that the btrfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     error conditions in some situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could     possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-3111)

    It was discovered that the Ricoh R5C592 MemoryStick card reader driver in the Linux kernel contained a     race condition during module unload, 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-2023-3141)

    It was discovered that the Qualcomm EMAC ethernet driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     device removal, leading to a user-after free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could use this     to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-33203)

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 ESM / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6312-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180227

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Version 1.2 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 1.1 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.0 Aug 29, 2023, 8:02 AM New Plugin Feed: 202308290802
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