The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6397-1 advisory.

    Daniel Moghimi discovered that some Intel(R) Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state     after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to     sensitive information. (CVE-2022-40982)

    Ruihan Li discovered that the bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform permissions     checks when handling HCI sockets. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (bluetooth communication). (CVE-2023-2002)

    Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors did not properly handle speculative execution of certain     vector register instructions. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2023-20593)

    Zi Fan Tan discovered that the binder IPC implementation in the Linux kernel contained 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-2023-21255)

    Juan Jose Lopez Jaimez, Meador Inge, Simon Scannell, and Nenad Stojanovski discovered that the BPF     verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly mark registers for precision tracking in certain situations,     leading to an out- of-bounds access vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-2163)

    Zheng Zhang discovered that the device-mapper implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     locking during table_clear() operations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (kernel deadlock). (CVE-2023-2269)

    It was discovered that the DVB Core driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle locking events in     certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel deadlock).
    (CVE-2023-31084)

    It was discovered that the kernel->user space relay implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     perform certain buffer calculations, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker     could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or expose sensitive information (kernel     memory). (CVE-2023-3268)

    It was discovered that the video4linux driver for Philips based TV cards in the Linux kernel contained a     race condition during device removal, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A physically proximate     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2023-35823)

    It was discovered that the SDMC DM1105 PCI device driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition     during device removal, leading to a use- after-free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could     use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-35824)

    It was discovered that the Renesas USB controller driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition     during device removal, 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-2023-35828)

    It was discovered that the universal 32bit network packet classifier implementation in the Linux kernel     did not properly perform reference counting 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-2023-3609)

    It was discovered that the Quick Fair Queueing network 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-2023-3611)

    It was discovered that the network packet classifier with netfilter/firewall marks implementation in the     Linux kernel did not properly handle reference counting, 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-2023-3776)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (BlueField) vulnerabilities (USN-6397-1)

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Version 1.4 Sep 18, 2024, 8:52 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") Plugin Feed: 202409180852
Version 1.3 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.2 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.1 Oct 23, 2023, 4:39 PM CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-3609" to "CVE-2023-3776") Plugin Feed: 202310231639
Version 1.1 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.0 Sep 27, 2023, 4:05 AM New Plugin Feed: 202309270405