The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7110-1 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:

    - Cryptographic API;

    - HW tracing;

    - ISDN/mISDN subsystem;

    - Media drivers;

    - Network drivers;

    - SCSI drivers;

    - USB DSL drivers;

    - VFIO drivers;

    - Watchdog drivers;

    - JFS file system;

    - Amateur Radio drivers;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IUCV driver;

    - TIPC protocol;

    - Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;

    - SoC Audio for Freescale CPUs drivers;

    - USB sound devices; (CVE-2024-42229, CVE-2024-27436, CVE-2024-42271, CVE-2024-46673, CVE-2024-42284,     CVE-2024-26810, CVE-2024-38602, CVE-2024-42280, CVE-2024-43858, CVE-2024-42089, CVE-2024-44940,     CVE-2024-42223, CVE-2024-39487, CVE-2024-41097, CVE-2024-26812, CVE-2024-38627, CVE-2024-38630,     CVE-2023-52528, CVE-2024-39494, CVE-2024-38621)

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 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7110-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210949

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