The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6871-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition,     leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-6270)

    It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless driver did not properly validate certain data     structures, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2023-7042)

    It was discovered that the HugeTLB file system component of the Linux Kernel contained a NULL pointer     dereference vulnerability. A privileged attacker could possibly use this to to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2024-0841)

    It was discovered that the Intel Data Streaming and Intel Analytics Accelerator drivers in the Linux     kernel allowed direct access to the devices for unprivileged users and virtual machines. A local attacker     could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-21823)

    Yuxuan Hu discovered that the Bluetooth RFCOMM protocol driver in the Linux Kernel contained a race     condition, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2024-22099)

    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:

    - ARM32 architecture;

    - RISC-V architecture;

    - x86 architecture;

    - ACPI drivers;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Clock framework and drivers;

    - CPU frequency scaling framework;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - DMA engine subsystem;

    - EFI core;

    - GPU drivers;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - IOMMU subsystem;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - Media drivers;

    - MMC subsystem;

    - Network drivers;

    - NTB driver;

    - NVME drivers;

    - PCI subsystem;

    - MediaTek PM domains;

    - Power supply drivers;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - Media staging drivers;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - USB subsystem;

    - Framebuffer layer;

    - AFS file system;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - EROFS file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - F2FS file system;

    - Network file system client;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - Diskquota system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - Netfilter;

    - TLS protocol;

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - Memory management;

    - Ethernet bridge;

    - Networking core;

    - HSR network protocol;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - L2TP protocol;

    - MAC80211 subsystem;

    - Multipath TCP;

    - Netlink;

    - NET/ROM layer;

    - Packet sockets;

    - RDS protocol;

    - Sun RPC protocol;

    - Unix domain sockets;

    - Wireless networking;

    - USB sound devices; (CVE-2024-26901, CVE-2024-35844, CVE-2024-27024, CVE-2024-26835, CVE-2024-26879,     CVE-2024-26846, CVE-2024-35829, CVE-2024-26804, CVE-2024-26802, CVE-2024-27039, CVE-2024-27075,     CVE-2024-27076, CVE-2024-26863, CVE-2024-27046, CVE-2024-26776, CVE-2024-26875, CVE-2024-26885,     CVE-2024-26583, CVE-2024-26777, CVE-2024-26803, CVE-2024-27047, CVE-2024-26748, CVE-2024-27044,     CVE-2024-27416, CVE-2024-26906, CVE-2024-27405, CVE-2024-26749, CVE-2024-27436, CVE-2024-26895,     CVE-2023-52662, CVE-2024-26772, CVE-2023-52645, CVE-2024-26787, CVE-2024-26788, CVE-2023-52497,     CVE-2024-26795, CVE-2024-26763, CVE-2024-27414, CVE-2024-26870, CVE-2024-27412, CVE-2024-27078,     CVE-2024-27388, CVE-2024-26894, CVE-2023-52641, CVE-2024-27053, CVE-2024-26584, CVE-2024-26752,     CVE-2024-35845, CVE-2024-26884, CVE-2024-26782, CVE-2024-26859, CVE-2024-26809, CVE-2024-27038,     CVE-2024-26897, CVE-2024-26750, CVE-2023-52644, CVE-2024-26848, CVE-2024-26833, CVE-2024-26801,     CVE-2024-26872, CVE-2023-52620, CVE-2023-52652, CVE-2024-26839, CVE-2024-26851, CVE-2024-26805,     CVE-2024-26659, CVE-2024-26791, CVE-2023-52640, CVE-2024-26883, CVE-2024-26737, CVE-2024-27028,     CVE-2024-26603, CVE-2024-27073, CVE-2024-26792, CVE-2024-35830, CVE-2024-26585, CVE-2024-27045,     CVE-2024-26880, CVE-2024-27074, CVE-2023-52434, CVE-2024-26778, CVE-2024-26754, CVE-2024-27034,     CVE-2024-35828, CVE-2024-26643, CVE-2024-26774, CVE-2024-26878, CVE-2024-26733, CVE-2024-27043,     CVE-2023-52656, CVE-2024-26816, CVE-2024-26907, CVE-2024-26838, CVE-2024-26651, CVE-2024-26790,     CVE-2024-26840, CVE-2024-26751, CVE-2024-27410, CVE-2023-52447, CVE-2024-27431, CVE-2024-26861,     CVE-2024-27077, CVE-2024-26779, CVE-2024-27054, CVE-2024-26601, CVE-2024-26874, CVE-2024-26764,     CVE-2023-52650, CVE-2024-26843, CVE-2024-26856, CVE-2024-26820, CVE-2024-26903, CVE-2024-27037,     CVE-2024-26798, CVE-2024-27415, CVE-2024-27419, CVE-2024-26736, CVE-2024-27403, CVE-2024-27432,     CVE-2024-26735, CVE-2024-26793, CVE-2024-26881, CVE-2024-26889, CVE-2024-27052, CVE-2024-26766,     CVE-2024-26882, CVE-2024-27417, CVE-2024-26688, CVE-2024-26747, CVE-2024-26877, CVE-2024-26744,     CVE-2024-27051, CVE-2024-26743, CVE-2024-26857, CVE-2024-26855, CVE-2024-26852, CVE-2024-26771,     CVE-2024-26891, CVE-2024-27030, CVE-2024-26769, CVE-2024-27413, CVE-2024-26898, CVE-2024-26915,     CVE-2024-26845, CVE-2024-27065, CVE-2024-26924, CVE-2024-26862, CVE-2024-27390, CVE-2024-26773)

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 (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-6871-1)

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