The remote Ubuntu 23.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6454-3 advisory.

    Kyle Zeng discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition in IP set     operations in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2023-42756)

    Alex Birnberg discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     register length, leading to an out-of- bounds write vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use     this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-4881)

    It was discovered that the Quick Fair Queueing scheduler implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly handle network packets in certain conditions, 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-2023-4921)

    Kevin Rich discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle removal of     rules from chain bindings in certain circumstances, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local     attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2023-5197)

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 23.10 : Linux kernel (ARM laptop) vulnerabilities (USN-6454-3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 184095

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