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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6767-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 195135

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6767-1 advisory.

 Chenyuan Yang discovered that the RDS Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of- bounds read vulnerability. An attacker could use this to possibly cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-23849)

 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

 - ARM64 architecture;

 - PowerPC architecture;

 - S390 architecture;

 - Block layer subsystem;

 - Android drivers;

 - Hardware random number generator core;

 - GPU drivers;

 - Hardware monitoring drivers;

 - I2C subsystem;

 - IIO Magnetometer sensors drivers;

 - InfiniBand drivers;

 - Network drivers;

 - PCI driver for MicroSemi Switchtec;

 - PHY drivers;

 - Ceph distributed file system;

 - Ext4 file system;

 - JFS file system;

 - NILFS2 file system;

 - Pstore file system;

 - Core kernel;

 - Memory management;

 - CAN network layer;

 - Networking core;

 - IPv4 networking;

 - Logical Link layer;

 - Netfilter;

 - NFC subsystem;

 - SMC sockets;

 - Sun RPC protocol;

 - TIPC protocol;

 - Realtek audio codecs; (CVE-2024-26696, CVE-2023-52583, CVE-2024-26720, CVE-2023-52615, CVE-2023-52599, CVE-2023-52587, CVE-2024-26635, CVE-2024-26704, CVE-2024-26625, CVE-2024-26825, CVE-2023-52622, CVE-2023-52435, CVE-2023-52617, CVE-2023-52598, CVE-2024-26645, CVE-2023-52619, CVE-2024-26593, CVE-2024-26685, CVE-2023-52602, CVE-2023-52486, CVE-2024-26697, CVE-2024-26675, CVE-2024-26600, CVE-2023-52604, CVE-2024-26664, CVE-2024-26606, CVE-2023-52594, CVE-2024-26671, CVE-2024-26598, CVE-2024-26673, CVE-2024-26920, CVE-2024-26722, CVE-2023-52601, CVE-2024-26602, CVE-2023-52637, CVE-2023-52623, CVE-2024-26702, CVE-2023-52597, CVE-2024-26684, CVE-2023-52606, CVE-2024-26679, CVE-2024-26663, CVE-2024-26910, CVE-2024-26615, CVE-2023-52595, CVE-2023-52607, CVE-2024-26636)

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.

Solution

Update the affected kernel package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6767-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 195135

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6767-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26598

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1091-gkeop, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1108-raspi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-181-generic-lpae, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1036-iot, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1128-gcp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1112-kvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1071-ibm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1124-aws, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1043-xilinx-zynqmp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-181-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1123-oracle, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-181-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1129-azure

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52435, CVE-2023-52486, CVE-2023-52583, CVE-2023-52587, CVE-2023-52594, CVE-2023-52595, CVE-2023-52597, CVE-2023-52598, CVE-2023-52599, CVE-2023-52601, CVE-2023-52602, CVE-2023-52604, CVE-2023-52606, CVE-2023-52607, CVE-2023-52615, CVE-2023-52617, CVE-2023-52619, CVE-2023-52622, CVE-2023-52623, CVE-2023-52637, CVE-2024-23849, CVE-2024-26593, CVE-2024-26598, CVE-2024-26600, CVE-2024-26602, CVE-2024-26606, CVE-2024-26615, CVE-2024-26625, CVE-2024-26635, CVE-2024-26636, CVE-2024-26645, CVE-2024-26663, CVE-2024-26664, CVE-2024-26671, CVE-2024-26673, CVE-2024-26675, CVE-2024-26679, CVE-2024-26684, CVE-2024-26685, CVE-2024-26696, CVE-2024-26697, CVE-2024-26702, CVE-2024-26704, CVE-2024-26720, CVE-2024-26722, CVE-2024-26825, CVE-2024-26910, CVE-2024-26920

USN: 6767-1