The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7233-1 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:

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - S/390 drivers;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - Sonic Silicon Backplane drivers;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - Closures library;

    - Netfilter;

    - TIPC protocol;

    - VMware vSockets driver; (CVE-2024-26929, CVE-2024-40982, CVE-2024-42311, CVE-2024-53141, CVE-2024-41066,     CVE-2024-38661, CVE-2024-38553, CVE-2024-43914, CVE-2024-26663, CVE-2024-42252, CVE-2024-38597,     CVE-2024-53103, CVE-2024-41020, CVE-2024-41012, CVE-2024-26595)

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 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7233-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 214739

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