The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6680-2 advisory.

     discovered that the NFC Controller Interface (NCI) implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly handle certain memory allocation failure conditions, leading to a null pointer dereference     vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2023-46343)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem of 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-2023-51779)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Rose X.25 protocol 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-2023-51782)

    Alon Zahavi discovered that the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly handle connect     command payloads in certain situations, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A remote attacker     could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-6121)

    Jann Horn discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds access     vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2023-6560)

    Dan Carpenter discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not store data in properly     sized memory locations. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2024-0607)

    Supraja Sridhara, Benedict Schlter, Mark Kuhne, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that the     Confidential Computing framework in the Linux kernel for x86 platforms did not properly handle 32-bit     emulation on TDX and SEV. An attacker with access to the VMM could use this to cause a denial of service     (guest crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-25744)

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 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6680-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 191739

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Version 1.2 Sep 9, 2024, 8:42 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-51782" to "CVE-2024-25744") Plugin Feed: 202409090842
Version 1.1 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 1.0 Mar 8, 2024, 6:49 AM New Plugin Feed: 202403080649