Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202292

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-6896-1 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)

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)

Gui-Dong Han discovered that the software RAID driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to an integer overflow vulnerability. A privileged attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-23307)

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859)

Bai Jiaju discovered that the Xceive XC4000 silicon tuner device driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to an integer overflow vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-24861)

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the Unsorted Block Images (UBI) flash device volume management subsystem did not properly validate logical eraseblock sizes in certain situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-25739)

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:

- x86 architecture;

- Block layer subsystem;

- Accessibility subsystem;

- ACPI drivers;

- Android drivers;

- Bluetooth drivers;

- Clock framework and drivers;

- Data acquisition framework and drivers;

- Cryptographic API;

- GPU drivers;

- HID subsystem;

- I2C subsystem;

- IRQ chip drivers;

- Multiple devices driver;

- Media drivers;

- VMware VMCI Driver;

- MMC subsystem;

- Network drivers;

- PCI subsystem;

- SCSI drivers;

- Freescale SoC drivers;

- SPI subsystem;

- Media staging drivers;

- TTY drivers;

- USB subsystem;

- VFIO drivers;

- Framebuffer layer;

- Xen hypervisor drivers;

- File systems infrastructure;

- BTRFS file system;

- Ext4 file system;

- FAT file system;

- NILFS2 file system;

- Diskquota system;

- SMB network file system;

- UBI file system;

- io_uring subsystem;

- BPF subsystem;

- Core kernel;

- Memory management;

- B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;

- Bluetooth subsystem;

- Networking core;

- HSR network protocol;

- IPv4 networking;

- IPv6 networking;

- MAC80211 subsystem;

- Netfilter;

- NET/ROM layer;

- NFC subsystem;

- Open vSwitch;

- Packet sockets;

- RDS protocol;

- Network traffic control;

- Sun RPC protocol;

- Unix domain sockets;

- ALSA SH drivers;

- USB sound devices;

- KVM core; (CVE-2024-35969, CVE-2024-35819, CVE-2024-26851, CVE-2024-26816, CVE-2024-26643, CVE-2023-52656, CVE-2024-27020, CVE-2024-35821, CVE-2024-35930, CVE-2024-35936, CVE-2024-27075, CVE-2024-26817, CVE-2024-26984, CVE-2024-35895, CVE-2024-35853, CVE-2024-27043, CVE-2024-35978, CVE-2024-35960, CVE-2024-26882, CVE-2024-35806, CVE-2024-35830, CVE-2024-26852, CVE-2024-35915, CVE-2024-36006, CVE-2024-35935, CVE-2024-26926, CVE-2024-35877, CVE-2024-27396, CVE-2024-26654, CVE-2024-27077, CVE-2024-27078, CVE-2024-27000, CVE-2024-35888, CVE-2024-27437, CVE-2024-26994, CVE-2024-26973, CVE-2024-26687, CVE-2024-26955, CVE-2024-26898, CVE-2024-26859, CVE-2023-52620, CVE-2024-35893, CVE-2024-26903, CVE-2024-26862, CVE-2024-35950, CVE-2023-52644, CVE-2024-26969, CVE-2024-27028, CVE-2024-35984, CVE-2024-36007, CVE-2024-35925, CVE-2024-36020, CVE-2024-26956, CVE-2024-35789, CVE-2024-26878, CVE-2024-35855, CVE-2024-35822, CVE-2023-52699, CVE-2024-27044, CVE-2024-27030, CVE-2024-27065, CVE-2024-26993, CVE-2024-27395, CVE-2024-27013, CVE-2024-35922, CVE-2024-26586, CVE-2024-36004, CVE-2024-35897, CVE-2024-35807, CVE-2024-26901, CVE-2024-27076, CVE-2023-52880, CVE-2022-48627, CVE-2024-26894, CVE-2023-52650, CVE-2024-27001, CVE-2024-26863, CVE-2024-26651, CVE-2024-35886, CVE-2024-35982, CVE-2024-26883, CVE-2024-26935, CVE-2024-27074, CVE-2024-35849, CVE-2024-35955, CVE-2024-26965, CVE-2024-35898, CVE-2024-26855, CVE-2024-35933, CVE-2024-35823, CVE-2024-35815, CVE-2024-26880, CVE-2024-26874, CVE-2024-26642, CVE-2024-26937, CVE-2024-35854, CVE-2024-35997, CVE-2024-27059, CVE-2024-26812, CVE-2024-26999, CVE-2024-26923, CVE-2024-26934, CVE-2024-27024, CVE-2024-27419, CVE-2024-35847, CVE-2024-26974, CVE-2024-26875, CVE-2024-35805, CVE-2024-27008, CVE-2024-26889, CVE-2024-27053, CVE-2024-27388, CVE-2024-26981, CVE-2024-26976, CVE-2024-35973, CVE-2024-35852, CVE-2024-35809, CVE-2024-27004, CVE-2024-26884, CVE-2024-35899, CVE-2024-26931, CVE-2024-35813, CVE-2024-26922, CVE-2024-26957, CVE-2024-35944, CVE-2024-27038, CVE-2024-35910, CVE-2024-26925, CVE-2024-26820, CVE-2024-26857, CVE-2024-26828, CVE-2024-35825, CVE-2024-26813, CVE-2024-27046, CVE-2024-26810, CVE-2024-27436, CVE-2024-27073, CVE-2024-35828, CVE-2024-35900, CVE-2024-26966)

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-6896-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202292

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6896-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2024

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-2024-26934

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-5.4.0-1075-ibm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1095-gkeop, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1132-gcp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-189-generic-lpae, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-189-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1133-azure, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-189-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1088-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1116-kvm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48627, CVE-2023-52620, CVE-2023-52644, CVE-2023-52650, CVE-2023-52656, CVE-2023-52699, CVE-2023-52880, CVE-2023-6270, CVE-2023-7042, CVE-2024-22099, CVE-2024-23307, CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859, CVE-2024-24861, CVE-2024-25739, CVE-2024-26586, CVE-2024-26642, CVE-2024-26643, CVE-2024-26651, CVE-2024-26654, CVE-2024-26687, CVE-2024-26810, CVE-2024-26812, CVE-2024-26813, CVE-2024-26816, CVE-2024-26817, CVE-2024-26820, CVE-2024-26828, CVE-2024-26851, CVE-2024-26852, CVE-2024-26855, CVE-2024-26857, CVE-2024-26859, CVE-2024-26862, CVE-2024-26863, CVE-2024-26874, CVE-2024-26875, CVE-2024-26878, CVE-2024-26880, CVE-2024-26882, CVE-2024-26883, CVE-2024-26884, CVE-2024-26889, CVE-2024-26894, CVE-2024-26898, CVE-2024-26901, CVE-2024-26903, CVE-2024-26922, CVE-2024-26923, CVE-2024-26925, CVE-2024-26926, CVE-2024-26931, CVE-2024-26934, CVE-2024-26935, CVE-2024-26937, CVE-2024-26955, CVE-2024-26956, CVE-2024-26957, CVE-2024-26965, CVE-2024-26966, CVE-2024-26969, CVE-2024-26973, CVE-2024-26974, CVE-2024-26976, CVE-2024-26981, CVE-2024-26984, CVE-2024-26993, CVE-2024-26994, CVE-2024-26999, CVE-2024-27000, CVE-2024-27001, CVE-2024-27004, CVE-2024-27008, CVE-2024-27013, CVE-2024-27020, CVE-2024-27024, CVE-2024-27028, CVE-2024-27030, CVE-2024-27038, CVE-2024-27043, CVE-2024-27044, CVE-2024-27046, CVE-2024-27053, CVE-2024-27059, CVE-2024-27065, CVE-2024-27073, CVE-2024-27074, CVE-2024-27075, CVE-2024-27076, CVE-2024-27077, CVE-2024-27078, CVE-2024-27388, CVE-2024-27395, CVE-2024-27396, CVE-2024-27419, CVE-2024-27436, CVE-2024-27437, CVE-2024-35789, CVE-2024-35805, CVE-2024-35806, CVE-2024-35807, CVE-2024-35809, CVE-2024-35813, CVE-2024-35815, CVE-2024-35819, CVE-2024-35821, CVE-2024-35822, CVE-2024-35823, CVE-2024-35825, CVE-2024-35828, CVE-2024-35830, CVE-2024-35847, CVE-2024-35849, CVE-2024-35852, CVE-2024-35853, CVE-2024-35854, CVE-2024-35855, CVE-2024-35877, CVE-2024-35886, CVE-2024-35888, CVE-2024-35893, CVE-2024-35895, CVE-2024-35897, CVE-2024-35898, CVE-2024-35899, CVE-2024-35900, CVE-2024-35910, CVE-2024-35915, CVE-2024-35922, CVE-2024-35925, CVE-2024-35930, CVE-2024-35933, CVE-2024-35935, CVE-2024-35936, CVE-2024-35944, CVE-2024-35950, CVE-2024-35955, CVE-2024-35960, CVE-2024-35969, CVE-2024-35973, CVE-2024-35978, CVE-2024-35982, CVE-2024-35984, CVE-2024-35997, CVE-2024-36004, CVE-2024-36006, CVE-2024-36007, CVE-2024-36020

USN: 6896-1