The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6549-5 advisory.

    It was discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition while handling     device descriptors in certain situations, leading to a out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker     could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-37453)

    Lin Ma discovered that the Netlink Transformation (XFRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize a policy data structure, leading to an out-of-bounds vulnerability. A local privileged attacker     could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-3773)

    Lucas Leong discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate some     attributes passed from userspace. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-39189)

    Sunjoo Park discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate u32     packets content, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause     a denial of service (system crash) or possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2023-39192)

    Lucas Leong discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate SCTP     data, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2023-39193)

    Lucas Leong discovered that the Netlink Transformation (XFRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel did not     properly handle state filters, leading to an out- of-bounds read vulnerability. A privileged local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly expose sensitive     information. (CVE-2023-39194)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in QXL virtual GPU driver 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-2023-39198)

    Kyle Zeng discovered that the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle socket     buffers (skb) when performing IP routing in certain circumstances, leading to a null pointer dereference     vulnerability. A privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2023-42754)

    Jason Wang discovered that the virtio ring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle iov     buffers in some situations. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service     (host system crash). (CVE-2023-5158)

    Alon Zahavi discovered that the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle queue     initialization failures in certain situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A remote     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2023-5178)

    Budimir Markovic discovered that the perf subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle event     groups, leading to 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-2023-5717)

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 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6549-5)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187935

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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
Version 1.2 Jun 19, 2024, 9:24 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 9.0) Plugin Feed: 202406190924
Version 1.1 Jan 17, 2024, 2:38 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 10.0. "CVSSv3 score" set to 9.8. "CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") Plugin Feed: 202401171438
Version 1.0 Jan 11, 2024, 5:03 AM New Plugin Feed: 202401110503