An issue was discovered in xenvif_set_hash_mapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.1, as used in Xen through 4.11.x and other products. The Linux netback driver allows frontends to control mapping of requests to request queues. When processing a request to set or change this mapping, some input validation (e.g., for an integer overflow) was missing or flawed, leading to OOB access in hash handling. A malicious or buggy frontend may cause the (usually privileged) backend to make out of bounds memory accesses, potentially resulting in one or more of privilege escalation, Denial of Service (DoS), or information leaks.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-001298 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in xenvif_set_hash_mapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.18.1, as used in Xen through 4.11.x and other products. The Linux netback driver allows     frontends to control mapping of requests to request queues. When processing a request to set or change     this mapping, some input validation (e.g., for an integer overflow) was missing or flawed, leading to OOB     access in hash handling. A malicious or buggy frontend may cause the (usually privileged) backend to make     out of bounds memory accesses, potentially resulting in one or more of privilege escalation, Denial of     Service (DoS), or information leaks.

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

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

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002693 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in xenvif_set_hash_mapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.18.1, as used in Xen through 4.11.x and other products. The Linux netback driver allows     frontends to control mapping of requests to request queues. When processing a request to set or change     this mapping, some input validation (e.g., for an integer overflow) was missing or flawed, leading to OOB     access in hash handling. A malicious or buggy frontend may cause the (usually privileged) backend to make     out of bounds memory accesses, potentially resulting in one or more of privilege escalation, Denial of     Service (DoS), or information leaks.

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

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

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002598 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in xenvif_set_hash_mapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.18.1, as used in Xen through 4.11.x and other products. The Linux netback driver allows     frontends to control mapping of requests to request queues. When processing a request to set or change     this mapping, some input validation (e.g., for an integer overflow) was missing or flawed, leading to OOB     access in hash handling. A malicious or buggy frontend may cause the (usually privileged) backend to make     out of bounds memory accesses, potentially resulting in one or more of privilege escalation, Denial of     Service (DoS), or information leaks.

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

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

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A memory corruption flaw was found in the way the USB     ConnectTech WhiteHEAT serial driver processed     completion commands sent via USB Request Blocks     buffers. An attacker with physical access to the system     could use this flaw to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2014-3185i1/4%0

  - Use-after-free vulnerability in the msm_set_crop     function in drivers/media/video/msm/msm_camera.c in the     MSM-Camera driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in     Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions     for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to     gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory     corruption) via an application that makes a crafted     ioctl call.(CVE-2015-0568i1/4%0

  - The vivid_fb_ioctl function in     drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-osd.c in the Linux     kernel through 4.3.3 does not initialize a certain     structure member, which allows local users to obtain     sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted     application.(CVE-2015-7884i1/4%0

  - The usb_get_bos_descriptor function in     drivers/usb/core/config.c in the Linux kernel can allow     a local users to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted USB     device.(CVE-2017-16535i1/4%0

  - The ACPI parsing functionality in the Linux kernel does     not flush the node and node_ext caches which causes a     kernel stack dump. This allows local users to obtain     sensitive information from kernel memory and use this     information to bypass the KASLR protection mechanism by     creating and applying crafted ACPI     table.(CVE-2017-13694i1/4%0

  - The is_ashmem_file function in     drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c in a certain Qualcomm     Innovation Center (QuIC) Android patch for the Linux     kernel 3.x mishandles pointer validation within the     KGSL Linux Graphics Module, which allows attackers to     bypass intended access restrictions by using the     /ashmem string as the dentry name.(CVE-2016-5340i1/4%0

  - It was found that the Linux kernel did not properly     account file descriptors passed over the unix socket     against the process limit. A local user could use this     flaw to exhaust all available memory on the     system.(CVE-2013-4312i1/4%0

  - Kernel memory corruption due to a buffer overflow was     found in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx() function in Linux     kernels from v3.9-rc1 to v4.13-rc1. The vulnerability     can be triggered by sending a crafted NL80211_CMD_FRAME     packet via netlink. This flaw is unlikely to be     triggered remotely as certain userspace code is needed     for this. An unprivileged local user could use this     flaw to induce kernel memory corruption on the system,     leading to a crash. Due to the nature of the flaw,     privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out,     although it is unlikely.(CVE-2017-7541i1/4%0

  - A flaw in the netback module allowed frontends to     control mapping of requests to request queues. An     attacker can change this mapping by requesting invalid     mapping requests allowing the (usually privileged)     backend to access out-of-bounds memory access for     reading and writing.(CVE-2018-15471i1/4%0

  - A buffer overflow vulnerability due to a lack of input     filtering of incoming fragmented datagrams was found in     the IP-over-1394 driver firewire-net in a fragment     handling code in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability     exists since firewire supported IPv4, i.e. since     version 2.6.31 (year 2009) till version v4.9-rc4. A     maliciously formed fragment with a respectively large     datagram offset would cause a memcpy() past the     datagram buffer, which would cause a system panic or     possible arbitrary code execution.The flaw requires     firewire-net module to be loaded and is remotely     exploitable from connected firewire devices, but not     over a local network.(CVE-2016-8633i1/4%0

  - It was found that the Linux kernel can hit a BUG_ON()     statement in the __xfs_get_blocks() in the     fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c because of a race condition between     direct and memory-mapped I/O associated with a hole in     a file that is handled with BUG_ON() instead of an I/O     failure. This allows a local unprivileged attacker to     cause a system crash and a denial of     service.(CVE-2016-10741i1/4%0

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. The     pointer to the netlink socket attribute is not checked,     which could cause a null pointer dereference when     parsing the nested attributes in function     tipc_nl_publ_dump(). This allows local users to cause a     DoS.(CVE-2016-4951i1/4%0

  - It was reported that with Linux kernel, earlier than     version v4.10-rc8, an application may trigger a BUG_ON     in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf if the socket tx buffer is     full, a thread is waiting on it to queue more data, and     meanwhile another thread peels off the association     being used by the first thread.(CVE-2017-5986i1/4%0

  - The kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension function in     arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c in the Linux kernel before     4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a     KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM ioctl call to     /dev/kvm.(CVE-2017-15306i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's 32-bit     emulation implementation handled forking or closing of     a task with an 'int80' entry. A local user could     potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges     on the system.(CVE-2015-2830i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP     implementation validated INIT chunks when performing     Address Configuration Change (ASCONF). A remote     attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by     sending a specially crafted SCTP packet to trigger a     NULL pointer dereference on the     system.(CVE-2014-7841i1/4%0

  - A race condition issue leading to a use-after-free flaw     was found in the way the raw packet sockets are     implemented in the Linux kernel networking subsystem     handling synchronization. A local user able to open a     raw packet socket (requires the CAP_NET_RAW capability)     can use this issue to crash the     system.(CVE-2017-1000111)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel performed     forking inside of a transaction. A local, unprivileged     user on a PowerPC system that supports transactional     memory could use this flaw to crash the     system.(CVE-2014-2673i1/4%0

  - The hashbin_delete function in net/irda/irqueue.c in     the Linux kernel improperly manages lock dropping,     which allows local users to cause a denial of service     (deadlock) via crafted operations on IrDA     devices.(CVE-2017-6348i1/4%0

  - An out-of-bounds flaw was found in the kernel, where     the length of the sockaddr parameter was not checked in     the pptp_bind() and pptp_connect() functions. As a     result, more kernel memory was copied out than     required, leaking information from the kernel stack     (including kernel addresses). A local system user could     exploit this flaw to bypass kernel ASLR or leak other     information.(CVE-2015-8569i1/4%0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

CVE-2017-18249

A race condition was discovered in the disk space allocator of F2FS. A user with access to an F2FS volume could use this to cause a denial of service or other security impact.

CVE-2018-1128, CVE-2018-1129

The cephx authentication protocol used by Ceph was susceptible to replay attacks, and calculated signatures incorrectly. These vulnerabilities in the server required changes to authentication that are incompatible with existing clients. The kernel's client code has now been updated to be compatible with the fixed server.

CVE-2018-3639 (SSB)

Multiple researchers have discovered that Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), a feature implemented in many processors, could be used to read sensitive information from another context. In particular, code in a software sandbox may be able to read sensitive information from outside the sandbox. This issue is also known as Spectre variant 4.

This update adds a further mitigation for this issue in the eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) implementation.

CVE-2018-5391 (FragmentSmack)

Juha-Matti Tilli discovered a flaw in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithms by sending specially crafted packets, leading to remote denial of service.

This was previously mitigated by reducing the default limits on memory usage for incomplete fragmented packets. This update replaces that mitigation with a more complete fix.

CVE-2018-5848

The wil6210 wifi driver did not properly validate lengths in scan and connection requests, leading to a possible buffer overflow. On systems using this driver, a local user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or potentially for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-12896, CVE-2018-13053

Team OWL337 reported possible integer overflows in the POSIX timer implementation. These might have some security impact.

CVE-2018-13096, CVE-2018-13097, CVE-2018-13100, CVE-2018-14614, CVE-2018-14616

Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported that crafted F2FS volumes could trigger a crash (BUG, Oops, or division by zero) and/or out-of-bounds memory access. An attacker able to mount such a volume could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-13406

Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect reported a potential integer overflow in the uvesafb driver. A user with permission to access such a device might be able to use this for denial of service or privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-14610, CVE-2018-14611, CVE-2018-14612, CVE-2018-14613

Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported that crafted Btrfs volumes could trigger a crash (Oops) and/or out-of-bounds memory access. An attacker able to mount such a volume could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-15471 ((XSA-270)

Felix Wilhelm of Google Project Zero discovered a flaw in the hash handling of the xen-netback Linux kernel module. A malicious or buggy frontend may cause the (usually privileged) backend to make out of bounds memory accesses, potentially resulting in privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks.

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-270.html

CVE-2018-16862

Vasily Averin and Pavel Tikhomirov from Virtuozzo Kernel Team discovered that the cleancache memory management feature did not invalidate cached data for deleted files. On Xen guests using the tmem driver, local users could potentially read data from other users' deleted files if they were able to create new files on the same volume.

CVE-2018-17972

Jann Horn reported that the /proc/*/stack files in procfs leaked sensitive data from the kernel. These files are now only readable by users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (usually only root)

CVE-2018-18281

Jann Horn reported a race condition in the virtual memory manager that can result in a process briefly having access to memory after it is freed and reallocated. A local user could possibly exploit this for denial of service (memory corruption) or for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-18690

Kanda Motohiro reported that XFS did not correctly handle some xattr (extended attribute) writes that require changing the disk format of the xattr. A user with access to an XFS volume could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-18710

It was discovered that the cdrom driver does not correctly validate the parameter to the CDROM_SELECT_DISC ioctl. A user with access to a cdrom device could use this to read sensitive information from the kernel or to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2018-19407

Wei Wu reported a potential crash (Oops) in the KVM implementation for x86 processors. A user with access to /dev/kvm could use this for denial of service.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 4.9.144-3.1~deb8u1. This version also includes fixes for Debian bugs #890034, #896911, #907581, #915229, and #915231; and other fixes included in upstream stable updates.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-4.9 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The 4.17.17 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3820-3 advisory.

    Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform input     validation in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-15471)

    It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly enforce permissions on     kernel memory access. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly elevate     privileges. (CVE-2017-13168)

    It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the CD-ROM driver of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2018-16658)

    It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the HID Bluetooth implementation in the Linux kernel     that could lead to a buffer overwrite. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-9363)

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 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3820-2 advisory.

    USN-3820-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the     corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu     16.04 LTS.

    Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform input     validation in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-15471)

    It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly enforce permissions on     kernel memory access. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly elevate     privileges. (CVE-2017-13168)

    It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the CD-ROM driver of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2018-16658)

    It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the HID Bluetooth implementation in the Linux kernel     that could lead to a buffer overwrite. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-9363)

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 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3820-1 advisory.

    Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform input     validation in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-15471)

    It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly enforce permissions on     kernel memory access. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly elevate     privileges. (CVE-2017-13168)

    It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the CD-ROM driver of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2018-16658)

    It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the HID Bluetooth implementation in the Linux kernel     that could lead to a buffer overwrite. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-9363)

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.

Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform input validation in some situations.
An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

  - CVE-2018-15471 (XSA-270)     Felix Wilhelm of Google Project Zero discovered a flaw     in the hash handling of the xen-netback Linux kernel     module. A malicious or buggy frontend may cause the     (usually privileged) backend to make out of bounds     memory accesses, potentially resulting in privilege     escalation, denial of service, or information leaks.

  - CVE-2018-18021     It was discovered that the KVM subsystem on the arm64     platform does not properly handle the KVM_SET_ON_REG     ioctl. An attacker who can create KVM based virtual     machines can take advantage of this flaw for denial of     service (hypervisor panic) or privilege escalation     (arbitrarily redirect the hypervisor flow of control     with full register control).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
290990	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-001298)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
286976	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002693)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
286902	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002598)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
124970	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1517)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	high
122879	Debian DLA-1715-1 : linux-4.9 security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
122007	Photon OS 2.0: Linux PHSA-2018-2.0-0109	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high
120578	Fedora 28 : kernel / kernel-headers (2018-8422d94975)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
118970	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-3820-3)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
118969	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3820-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
118968	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3820-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
118967	Ubuntu 18.10 : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-3819-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
118023	Debian DSA-4313-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
112099	Fedora 27 : kernel / kernel-headers (2018-79d7c3d2df)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high

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