The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6950-4 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.

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:6567 advisory.

    * kernel: efivarfs: force RO when remounting if SetVariable is not supported (CVE-2023-52463)

    * kernel: nfsd: fix RELEASE_LOCKOWNER (CVE-2024-26629)

    * kernel: mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk (CVE-2024-26630)

    * kernel: mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again (CVE-2024-26720)

    * kernel: Bluetooth: af_bluetooth: Fix deadlock (CVE-2024-26886)

    * kernel: kprobes/x86: Use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read from unsafe address (CVE-2024-26946)

    * kernel: KVM: SVM: Flush pages under kvm->lock to fix UAF in svm_register_enc_region()     (CVE-2024-35791)

    * kernel: mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs (CVE-2024-35797)

    * kernel: x86/coco: Require seeding RNG with RDRAND on CoCo systems (CVE-2024-35875)

    * kernel: mm/hugetlb: fix missing hugetlb_lock for resv uncharge (CVE-2024-36000)

    * kernel: iommufd: Fix missing update of domains_itree after splitting iopt_area (CVE-2023-52801)

    * kernel: net: fix out-of-bounds access in ops_init (CVE-2024-36883)

    * kernel: regmap: maple: Fix cache corruption in regcache_maple_drop() (CVE-2024-36019)

    * kernel: usb-storage: alauda: Check whether the media is initialized (CVE-2024-38619)

    * kernel: net: bridge: mst: fix vlan use-after-free (CVE-2024-36979)

    * kernel: scsi: qedf: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated (CVE-2024-38559)

    * kernel: xhci: Handle TD clearing for multiple streams case (CVE-2024-40927)

    * kernel: cxl/region: Fix memregion leaks in devm_cxl_add_region() (CVE-2024-40936)

    * kernel: net/sched: Fix UAF when resolving a clash (CVE-2024-41040)

    * kernel: ppp: reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed packets (CVE-2024-41044)

    * kernel: mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid() (CVE-2024-41055)

    * kernel: PCI/MSI: Fix UAF in msi_capability_init (CVE-2024-41096)

    * kernel: xdp: Remove WARN() from __xdp_reg_mem_model() (CVE-2024-42082)

    * kernel: x86: stop playing stack games in profile_pc() (CVE-2024-42096)

    * kernel: Revert mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again     (CVE-2024-42102)

    * kernel: mm: avoid overflows in dirty throttling logic (CVE-2024-42131)

    * kernel: nvme: avoid double free special payload (CVE-2024-41073)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Rocky Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
206040	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-6950-4)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	8/21/2024	8/29/2024	medium
207315	Rocky Linux 9 : kernel (RLSA-2024:6567)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	9/16/2024	9/16/2024	high

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