The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7428-1 advisory.

    Demi Marie Obenour and Simon Gaiser discovered that several Xen para- virtualization device frontends did     not properly restrict the access rights of device backends. An attacker could possibly use a malicious Xen     backend to gain access to memory pages of a guest VM or cause a denial of service in the guest.
    (CVE-2022-23041)

    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:

    - HID subsystem;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - SuperH / SH-Mobile drivers;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - JFS file system;

    - IP tunnels definitions;

    - Network namespace;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - Networking core;

    - HSR network protocol;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - Network traffic control; (CVE-2024-56615, CVE-2024-56600, CVE-2025-21700, CVE-2024-56658,     CVE-2024-35960, CVE-2024-50265, CVE-2025-21702, CVE-2024-53227, CVE-2024-53165, CVE-2024-50167,     CVE-2024-26863, CVE-2024-35973, CVE-2024-46826, CVE-2021-47119, CVE-2024-50302, CVE-2024-49952,     CVE-2021-47101, CVE-2024-49948, CVE-2024-56595)

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 / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7428-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234106

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