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-6951-1 advisory.

    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;

    - M68K architecture;

    - User-Mode Linux (UML);

    - x86 architecture;

    - Accessibility subsystem;

    - Character device driver;

    - Clock framework and drivers;

    - CPU frequency scaling framework;

    - Hardware crypto device drivers;

    - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework;

    - FireWire subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - HW tracing;

    - Macintosh device drivers;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - Media drivers;

    - Network drivers;

    - Pin controllers subsystem;

    - S/390 drivers;

    - SCSI drivers;

    - SoundWire subsystem;

    - Greybus lights staging drivers;

    - TTY drivers;

    - Framebuffer layer;

    - Virtio drivers;

    - 9P distributed file system;

    - eCrypt file system;

    - EROFS file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - F2FS file system;

    - JFFS2 file system;

    - Network file system client;

    - NILFS2 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - Kernel debugger infrastructure;

    - IRQ subsystem;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - Dynamic debug library;

    - 9P file system network protocol;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - Networking core;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - Netfilter;

    - NET/ROM layer;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - NSH protocol;

    - Open vSwitch;

    - Phonet protocol;

    - TIPC protocol;

    - Unix domain sockets;

    - Wireless networking;

    - eXpress Data Path;

    - XFRM subsystem;

    - ALSA framework; (CVE-2024-36934, CVE-2024-38578, CVE-2024-38600, CVE-2024-27399, CVE-2024-39276,     CVE-2024-38596, CVE-2024-36933, CVE-2024-36919, CVE-2024-35976, CVE-2024-37356, CVE-2023-52585,     CVE-2024-38558, CVE-2024-38560, CVE-2024-38634, CVE-2024-36959, CVE-2024-38633, CVE-2024-36886,     CVE-2024-27398, CVE-2024-39493, CVE-2024-26886, CVE-2024-31076, CVE-2024-38559, CVE-2024-38615,     CVE-2024-36971, CVE-2024-38627, CVE-2024-36964, CVE-2024-38780, CVE-2024-37353, CVE-2024-38621,     CVE-2024-36883, CVE-2024-39488, CVE-2024-38661, CVE-2024-36939, CVE-2024-38589, CVE-2024-38565,     CVE-2024-38381, CVE-2024-35947, CVE-2024-36905, CVE-2022-48772, CVE-2024-36017, CVE-2024-36946,     CVE-2024-27401, CVE-2024-38579, CVE-2024-38612, CVE-2024-38598, CVE-2024-38635, CVE-2024-38587,     CVE-2024-38567, CVE-2024-38549, CVE-2024-36960, CVE-2023-52752, CVE-2024-27019, CVE-2024-38601,     CVE-2024-39489, CVE-2024-39467, CVE-2023-52882, CVE-2024-38583, CVE-2024-39480, CVE-2024-38607,     CVE-2024-36940, CVE-2024-38659, CVE-2023-52434, CVE-2024-36015, CVE-2024-38582, CVE-2024-36950,     CVE-2024-38552, CVE-2024-33621, CVE-2024-36954, CVE-2024-39475, CVE-2024-39301, CVE-2024-38599,     CVE-2024-36902, CVE-2024-36286, CVE-2024-38613, CVE-2024-38637, CVE-2024-36941, CVE-2024-36014,     CVE-2024-38618, CVE-2024-36904, CVE-2024-36270, CVE-2024-39292, CVE-2024-39471, CVE-2022-48674)

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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6951-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205223

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 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 Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.1 Aug 9, 2024, 1:42 AM New Plugin Feed: 202408090142