The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6950-3 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:

    - ARM32 architecture;

    - ARM64 architecture;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Clock framework and drivers;

    - FireWire subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - EEPROM drivers;

    - Network drivers;

    - Pin controllers subsystem;

    - Remote Processor subsystem;

    - S/390 drivers;

    - SCSI drivers;

    - 9P distributed file system;

    - Network file system client;

    - SMB network file system;

    - Socket messages infrastructure;

    - Dynamic debug library;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - Networking core;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - Multipath TCP;

    - NSH protocol;

    - Phonet protocol;

    - TIPC protocol;

    - Wireless networking;

    - Key management;

    - ALSA framework;

    - HD-audio driver; (CVE-2024-36883, CVE-2024-36940, CVE-2024-36902, CVE-2024-36975, CVE-2024-36964,     CVE-2024-36938, CVE-2024-36931, CVE-2024-35848, CVE-2024-26900, CVE-2024-36967, CVE-2024-36904,     CVE-2024-27398, CVE-2024-36031, CVE-2023-52585, CVE-2024-36886, CVE-2024-36937, CVE-2024-36954,     CVE-2024-36916, CVE-2024-36905, CVE-2024-36959, CVE-2024-26980, CVE-2024-26936, CVE-2024-36928,     CVE-2024-36889, CVE-2024-36929, CVE-2024-36933, CVE-2024-27399, CVE-2024-36946, CVE-2024-36906,     CVE-2024-36965, CVE-2024-36957, CVE-2024-36941, CVE-2024-36897, CVE-2024-36952, CVE-2024-36947,     CVE-2024-36950, CVE-2024-36880, CVE-2024-36017, CVE-2023-52882, CVE-2024-36969, CVE-2024-38600,     CVE-2024-36955, CVE-2024-36960, CVE-2024-27401, CVE-2024-36919, CVE-2024-36934, CVE-2024-35947,     CVE-2024-36953, CVE-2024-36944, CVE-2024-36939)

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 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities (USN-6950-3)

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