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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7383-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 233469

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7383-1 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;

 - x86 architecture;

 - Block layer subsystem;

 - Drivers core;

 - Ublk userspace block driver;

 - Compressed RAM block device driver;

 - CPU frequency scaling framework;

 - DAX dirext access to differentiated memory framework;

 - GPU drivers;

 - HID subsystem;

 - I3C subsystem;

 - IIO subsystem;

 - InfiniBand drivers;

 - IOMMU subsystem;

 - IRQ chip drivers;

 - Network drivers;

 - NTB driver;

 - Virtio pmem driver;

 - Parport drivers;

 - Pin controllers subsystem;

 - SCSI subsystem;

 - SuperH / SH-Mobile drivers;

 - Direct Digital Synthesis drivers;

 - Thermal drivers;

 - TTY drivers;

 - UFS subsystem;

 - USB Gadget drivers;

 - USB Host Controller drivers;

 - TI TPS6598x USB Power Delivery controller driver;

 - Framebuffer layer;

 - BTRFS file system;

 - Ext4 file system;

 - F2FS file system;

 - Network file system (NFS) client;

 - NILFS2 file system;

 - NTFS3 file system;

 - SMB network file system;

 - BPF subsystem;

 - Network file system (NFS) superblock;

 - Network traffic control;

 - Network sockets;

 - User-space API (UAPI);

 - io_uring subsystem;

 - Kernel thread helper (kthread);

 - RCU subsystem;

 - Timer subsystem;

 - Maple Tree data structure library;

 - Memory management;

 - Bluetooth subsystem;

 - Ethernet bridge;

 - Networking core;

 - IPv4 networking;

 - Multipath TCP;

 - Netfilter;

 - Netlink;

 - Unix domain sockets;

 - Wireless networking;

 - eXpress Data Path; (CVE-2024-50182, CVE-2024-50020, CVE-2024-50060, CVE-2024-50074, CVE-2024-50193, CVE-2024-50117, CVE-2024-50201, CVE-2024-50033, CVE-2024-50056, CVE-2024-50026, CVE-2024-50059, CVE-2024-50041, CVE-2024-50083, CVE-2024-50038, CVE-2024-50229, CVE-2024-50028, CVE-2024-50183, CVE-2024-50196, CVE-2024-50029, CVE-2024-50093, CVE-2024-50188, CVE-2024-50025, CVE-2024-50200, CVE-2024-50068, CVE-2024-49920, CVE-2024-50198, CVE-2024-50035, CVE-2024-50042, CVE-2024-50023, CVE-2024-50047, CVE-2024-56582, CVE-2024-50090, CVE-2024-50062, CVE-2024-50073, CVE-2024-50063, CVE-2024-50098, CVE-2024-50197, CVE-2024-50040, CVE-2024-50180, CVE-2024-53170, CVE-2024-50087, CVE-2024-50031, CVE-2024-50202, CVE-2024-50058, CVE-2024-50186, CVE-2024-50134, CVE-2024-50194, CVE-2024-50075, CVE-2024-50046, CVE-2024-50078, CVE-2024-50066, CVE-2024-53156, CVE-2024-49893, CVE-2024-50021, CVE-2024-47711, CVE-2024-47726, CVE-2024-50024, CVE-2024-49865, CVE-2024-50064, CVE-2024-50049, CVE-2024-50171, CVE-2024-50019, CVE-2024-50077, CVE-2024-50199, CVE-2024-50072, CVE-2024-50069, CVE-2024-50048, CVE-2024-49972, CVE-2024-53165, CVE-2024-50022, CVE-2024-50084, CVE-2024-50185, CVE-2024-50055, CVE-2024-50187, CVE-2024-50009, CVE-2024-50082, CVE-2024-50085, CVE-2024-50095, CVE-2024-50195, CVE-2024-50080, CVE-2024-50076, CVE-2024-50088, CVE-2024-50039, CVE-2024-50044, CVE-2024-50030, CVE-2024-49968, CVE-2024-50148, CVE-2024-50192, CVE-2024-50032, CVE-2024-50061, CVE-2024-50233, CVE-2024-50099, CVE-2024-49921, CVE-2024-50184, CVE-2024-50065, CVE-2024-49914, CVE-2024-50027, CVE-2024-50070, CVE-2024-50086, CVE-2024-50189, CVE-2024-56614, CVE-2024-50057, CVE-2024-50096, CVE-2024-50045, CVE-2024-50036, CVE-2024-56663, CVE-2024-50191, CVE-2024-50101)

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-7383-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 233469

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7383-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 3/28/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56614

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1026-gcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-56-lowlatency-64k, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1024-nvidia, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1008-gkeop, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1022-oracle, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1024-nvidia-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1024-nvidia-lowlatency-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1025-aws, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-56-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1026-gcp-64k, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1021-gke, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1024-nvidia-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1022-oracle-64k

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47711, CVE-2024-47726, CVE-2024-49865, CVE-2024-49893, CVE-2024-49914, CVE-2024-49920, CVE-2024-49921, CVE-2024-49968, CVE-2024-49972, CVE-2024-50009, CVE-2024-50019, CVE-2024-50020, CVE-2024-50021, CVE-2024-50022, CVE-2024-50023, CVE-2024-50024, CVE-2024-50025, CVE-2024-50026, CVE-2024-50027, CVE-2024-50028, CVE-2024-50029, CVE-2024-50030, CVE-2024-50031, CVE-2024-50032, CVE-2024-50033, CVE-2024-50035, CVE-2024-50036, CVE-2024-50038, CVE-2024-50039, CVE-2024-50040, CVE-2024-50041, CVE-2024-50042, CVE-2024-50044, CVE-2024-50045, CVE-2024-50046, CVE-2024-50047, CVE-2024-50048, CVE-2024-50049, CVE-2024-50055, CVE-2024-50056, CVE-2024-50057, CVE-2024-50058, CVE-2024-50059, CVE-2024-50060, CVE-2024-50061, CVE-2024-50062, CVE-2024-50063, CVE-2024-50064, CVE-2024-50065, CVE-2024-50066, CVE-2024-50068, CVE-2024-50069, CVE-2024-50070, CVE-2024-50072, CVE-2024-50073, CVE-2024-50074, CVE-2024-50075, CVE-2024-50076, CVE-2024-50077, CVE-2024-50078, CVE-2024-50080, CVE-2024-50082, CVE-2024-50083, CVE-2024-50084, CVE-2024-50085, CVE-2024-50086, CVE-2024-50087, CVE-2024-50088, CVE-2024-50090, CVE-2024-50093, CVE-2024-50095, CVE-2024-50096, CVE-2024-50098, CVE-2024-50099, CVE-2024-50101, CVE-2024-50117, CVE-2024-50134, CVE-2024-50148, CVE-2024-50171, CVE-2024-50180, CVE-2024-50182, CVE-2024-50183, CVE-2024-50184, CVE-2024-50185, CVE-2024-50186, CVE-2024-50187, CVE-2024-50188, CVE-2024-50189, CVE-2024-50191, CVE-2024-50192, CVE-2024-50193, CVE-2024-50194, CVE-2024-50195, CVE-2024-50196, CVE-2024-50197, CVE-2024-50198, CVE-2024-50199, CVE-2024-50200, CVE-2024-50201, CVE-2024-50202, CVE-2024-50229, CVE-2024-50233, CVE-2024-53156, CVE-2024-53165, CVE-2024-53170, CVE-2024-56582, CVE-2024-56614, CVE-2024-56663

USN: 7383-1