Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202404

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6898-1 advisory.

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-38096)

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:

- ARM64 architecture;

- RISC-V architecture;

- x86 architecture;

- Block layer subsystem;

- Accessibility subsystem;

- Android drivers;

- Bluetooth drivers;

- Clock framework and drivers;

- Data acquisition framework and drivers;

- Cryptographic API;

- DMA engine subsystem;

- GPU drivers;

- HID subsystem;

- I2C subsystem;

- IRQ chip drivers;

- Multiple devices driver;

- VMware VMCI Driver;

- MMC subsystem;

- Network drivers;

- Device tree and open firmware driver;

- PCI subsystem;

- S/390 drivers;

- SCSI drivers;

- Freescale SoC drivers;

- Trusted Execution Environment drivers;

- TTY drivers;

- USB subsystem;

- VFIO drivers;

- Framebuffer layer;

- Xen hypervisor drivers;

- File systems infrastructure;

- BTRFS file system;

- Ext4 file system;

- FAT file system;

- Network file system client;

- Network file system server daemon;

- NILFS2 file system;

- Pstore file system;

- SMB network file system;

- UBI file system;

- Netfilter;

- BPF subsystem;

- Core kernel;

- PCI iomap interfaces;

- Memory management;

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

- Bluetooth subsystem;

- Ethernet bridge;

- Networking core;

- IPv4 networking;

- IPv6 networking;

- MAC80211 subsystem;

- IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem;

- NFC subsystem;

- Open vSwitch;

- RDS protocol;

- Network traffic control;

- SMC sockets;

- Unix domain sockets;

- eXpress Data Path;

- ALSA SH drivers;

- KVM core; (CVE-2024-35955, CVE-2024-35805, CVE-2024-26814, CVE-2024-27008, CVE-2024-26970, CVE-2024-35944, CVE-2024-27013, CVE-2024-35938, CVE-2024-35853, CVE-2024-35969, CVE-2024-26981, CVE-2024-26929, CVE-2024-27020, CVE-2024-35885, CVE-2024-35973, CVE-2024-35958, CVE-2024-26961, CVE-2024-35912, CVE-2024-35890, CVE-2024-35804, CVE-2024-35813, CVE-2024-27393, CVE-2024-26956, CVE-2024-35915, CVE-2024-26642, CVE-2024-35847, CVE-2024-26960, CVE-2024-26923, CVE-2024-35935, CVE-2024-36025, CVE-2024-35898, CVE-2024-26810, CVE-2024-35809, CVE-2024-26813, CVE-2024-36007, CVE-2024-35817, CVE-2024-35849, CVE-2024-35819, CVE-2024-35884, CVE-2024-35922, CVE-2024-36008, CVE-2024-27004, CVE-2024-35902, CVE-2024-26828, CVE-2024-35791, CVE-2024-35930, CVE-2024-26973, CVE-2024-26984, CVE-2024-35806, CVE-2024-26629, CVE-2024-26955, CVE-2024-26937, CVE-2024-27059, CVE-2024-35872, CVE-2024-35978, CVE-2024-26950, CVE-2024-27018, CVE-2024-35857, CVE-2024-35990, CVE-2024-27437, CVE-2024-35822, CVE-2024-36020, CVE-2024-26931, CVE-2024-26977, CVE-2024-26654, CVE-2024-26988, CVE-2024-36005, CVE-2024-26969, CVE-2024-35960, CVE-2024-27016, CVE-2024-36006, CVE-2024-35936, CVE-2024-35982, CVE-2024-36029, CVE-2024-27395, CVE-2024-26999, CVE-2024-35871, CVE-2024-35893, CVE-2024-26925, CVE-2024-26965, CVE-2024-35933, CVE-2024-35976, CVE-2024-35899, CVE-2024-35852, CVE-2024-35918, CVE-2024-26951, CVE-2024-27001, CVE-2024-35905, CVE-2024-35907, CVE-2024-26976, CVE-2024-27000, CVE-2024-35910, CVE-2024-35950, CVE-2024-26974, CVE-2024-35785, CVE-2023-52488, CVE-2023-52880, CVE-2024-35877, CVE-2024-35888, CVE-2024-35807, CVE-2024-35796, CVE-2024-35821, CVE-2024-35854, CVE-2024-27015, CVE-2024-35823, CVE-2024-35900, CVE-2024-35815, CVE-2024-26966, CVE-2024-26817, CVE-2024-35896, CVE-2024-27396, CVE-2024-27009, CVE-2024-35940, CVE-2024-26996, CVE-2024-35825, CVE-2024-35984, CVE-2024-35886, CVE-2024-27019, CVE-2024-26922, CVE-2024-35989, CVE-2024-26926, CVE-2024-35988, CVE-2024-26957, CVE-2024-26812, CVE-2024-35925, CVE-2024-35970, CVE-2024-26989, CVE-2024-26811, CVE-2024-35895, CVE-2024-26935, CVE-2024-26958, CVE-2024-35855, CVE-2024-35879, CVE-2024-26993, CVE-2024-35934, CVE-2024-36004, CVE-2024-35997, CVE-2024-26994, CVE-2023-52699, CVE-2024-35789, CVE-2024-26964, CVE-2024-26687, CVE-2024-35851, CVE-2024-35897, CVE-2024-26934)

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-6898-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202404

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6898-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2024

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-2024-27018

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-5.15.0-116-generic-lpae, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1064-gcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1058-ibm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-116-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1060-intel-iotg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1062-gke, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1048-gkeop, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-116-generic-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1068-azure, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1063-oracle

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38096, CVE-2023-52488, CVE-2023-52699, CVE-2023-52880, CVE-2024-23307, CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859, CVE-2024-24861, CVE-2024-25739, CVE-2024-26629, CVE-2024-26642, CVE-2024-26654, CVE-2024-26687, CVE-2024-26810, CVE-2024-26811, CVE-2024-26812, CVE-2024-26813, CVE-2024-26814, CVE-2024-26817, CVE-2024-26828, CVE-2024-26922, CVE-2024-26923, CVE-2024-26925, CVE-2024-26926, CVE-2024-26929, CVE-2024-26931, CVE-2024-26934, CVE-2024-26935, CVE-2024-26937, CVE-2024-26950, CVE-2024-26951, CVE-2024-26955, CVE-2024-26956, CVE-2024-26957, CVE-2024-26958, CVE-2024-26960, CVE-2024-26961, CVE-2024-26964, CVE-2024-26965, CVE-2024-26966, CVE-2024-26969, CVE-2024-26970, CVE-2024-26973, CVE-2024-26974, CVE-2024-26976, CVE-2024-26977, CVE-2024-26981, CVE-2024-26984, CVE-2024-26988, CVE-2024-26989, CVE-2024-26993, CVE-2024-26994, CVE-2024-26996, CVE-2024-26999, CVE-2024-27000, CVE-2024-27001, CVE-2024-27004, CVE-2024-27008, CVE-2024-27009, CVE-2024-27013, CVE-2024-27015, CVE-2024-27016, CVE-2024-27018, CVE-2024-27019, CVE-2024-27020, CVE-2024-27059, CVE-2024-27393, CVE-2024-27395, CVE-2024-27396, CVE-2024-27437, CVE-2024-35785, CVE-2024-35789, CVE-2024-35791, CVE-2024-35796, CVE-2024-35804, CVE-2024-35805, CVE-2024-35806, CVE-2024-35807, CVE-2024-35809, CVE-2024-35813, CVE-2024-35815, CVE-2024-35817, CVE-2024-35819, CVE-2024-35821, CVE-2024-35822, CVE-2024-35823, CVE-2024-35825, CVE-2024-35847, CVE-2024-35849, CVE-2024-35851, CVE-2024-35852, CVE-2024-35853, CVE-2024-35854, CVE-2024-35855, CVE-2024-35857, CVE-2024-35871, CVE-2024-35872, CVE-2024-35877, CVE-2024-35879, CVE-2024-35884, CVE-2024-35885, CVE-2024-35886, CVE-2024-35888, CVE-2024-35890, CVE-2024-35893, CVE-2024-35895, CVE-2024-35896, CVE-2024-35897, CVE-2024-35898, CVE-2024-35899, CVE-2024-35900, CVE-2024-35902, CVE-2024-35905, CVE-2024-35907, CVE-2024-35910, CVE-2024-35912, CVE-2024-35915, CVE-2024-35918, CVE-2024-35922, CVE-2024-35925, CVE-2024-35930, CVE-2024-35933, CVE-2024-35934, CVE-2024-35935, CVE-2024-35936, CVE-2024-35938, CVE-2024-35940, CVE-2024-35944, CVE-2024-35950, CVE-2024-35955, CVE-2024-35958, CVE-2024-35960, CVE-2024-35969, CVE-2024-35970, CVE-2024-35973, CVE-2024-35976, CVE-2024-35978, CVE-2024-35982, CVE-2024-35984, CVE-2024-35988, CVE-2024-35989, CVE-2024-35990, CVE-2024-35997, CVE-2024-36004, CVE-2024-36005, CVE-2024-36006, CVE-2024-36007, CVE-2024-36008, CVE-2024-36020, CVE-2024-36025, CVE-2024-36029

USN: 6898-1