The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation failure.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-001156 advisory.

    The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation     failure.

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-2026-003556 advisory.

    The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation     failure.

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-2026-003503 advisory.

    The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation     failure.

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 Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation     failure. (CVE-2018-7480)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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 :

  - drivers/hid/hid-zpff.c in the Human Interface Device     (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when     CONFIG_HID_ZEROPLUS is enabled, allows physically     proximate attackers to cause a denial of service     (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a crafted     device.(CVE-2013-2889i1/4%0

  - The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel     before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that     namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows     local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by     first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by     setting the setgid bit on a file with group ownership     of root.(CVE-2014-4014i1/4%0

  - The function drivers/usb/core/config.c in the Linux     kernel, allows 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,     related to the USB_DT_INTERFACE_ASSOCIATION     descriptor.(CVE-2017-16531i1/4%0

  - The snd_timer_interrupt function in sound/core/timer.c     in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 does not properly     maintain a certain linked list, which allows local     users to cause a denial of service (race condition and     system crash) via a crafted ioctl     call.(CVE-2016-2545i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel where the deletion     of a file or directory could trigger an unmount and     reveal data under a mount point. This flaw was     inadvertently introduced with the new feature of being     able to lazily unmount a mount tree when using file     system user namespaces.(CVE-2015-4176i1/4%0

  - The do_shmat function in ipc/shm.c in the Linux kernel,     through 4.9.12, does not restrict the address     calculated by a certain rounding operation. This allows     privileged local users to map page zero and,     consequently, bypass a protection mechanism that exists     for the mmap system call. This is possible by making     crafted shmget and shmat system calls in a privileged     context.(CVE-2017-5669i1/4%0

  - In drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_enet.c in the     Linux kernel, before 4.13, local users can cause a     denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly     have unspecified other impact by leveraging differences     in skb handling between hns_nic_net_xmit_hw and     hns_nic_net_xmit.(CVE-2017-18218i1/4%0

  - The ioapic_deliver function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the     Linux kernel through 3.14.1 does not properly validate     the kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic return value, which allows     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS     crash) via a crafted entry in the redirection table of     an I/O APIC. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the     ioapic_service function before the vulnerability was     announced.(CVE-2014-0155i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto     subsystem handled automatic loading of kernel modules.
    A local user could use this flaw to load any installed     kernel module, and thus increase the attack surface of     the running kernel.(CVE-2013-7421i1/4%0

  - Off-by-one error in the get_prng_bytes function in     crypto/ansi_cprng.c in the Linux kernel through 3.11.4     makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to     defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via multiple     requests for small amounts of data, leading to improper     management of the state of the consumed     data.(CVE-2013-4345i1/4%0

  - sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1     uses an incorrect type of mutex, which allows local     users to cause a denial of service (race condition,     use-after-free, and system crash) via a crafted ioctl     call.(CVE-2016-2546i1/4%0

  - The do_get_mempolicy function in mm/mempolicy.c in the     Linux kernel before 4.12.9 allows local users to cause     a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via crafted system     calls.(CVE-2018-10675i1/4%0

  - A certain backport in the TCP Fast Open implementation     for the Linux kernel before 3.18 does not properly     maintain a count value, which allow local users to     cause a denial of service (system crash) via the Fast     Open feature, as demonstrated by visiting the     chrome://flags/#enable-tcp-fast-open URL when using     certain 3.10.x through 3.16.x kernel builds, including     longterm-maintenance releases and ckt (aka Canonical     Kernel Team) builds.(CVE-2015-3332i1/4%0

  - It was found that the try_to_unmap_cluster() function     in the Linux kernel's Memory Managment subsystem did     not properly handle page locking in certain cases,     which could potentially trigger the BUG_ON() macro in     the mlock_vma_page() function. A local, unprivileged     user could use this flaw to crash the     system.(CVE-2014-3122i1/4%0

  - The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c in     the Linux kernel, before 4.11, allows local users to     cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly     have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation     failure.(CVE-2018-7480i1/4%0

  - The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in     sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the     Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate     attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference or double free, and system crash) via a     crafted endpoints value in a USB device     descriptor.(CVE-2016-2184i1/4%0

  - The etm_setup_aux function in     drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c in the     Linux kernel before 4.10.2 allows attackers to cause a     denial of service (panic) because a parameter is     incorrectly used as a local variable.(CVE-2018-11232i1/4%0

  - A division-by-zero in set_termios(), when debugging is     enabled, was found in the Linux kernel. When the     [io_ti] driver is loaded, a local unprivileged attacker     can request incorrect high transfer speed in the     change_port_settings() in the     drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c so that the divisor value     becomes zero and causes a system crash resulting in a     denial of service.(CVE-2017-18360i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found where the XFS filesystem code     mishandles a user-settable inode flag in the Linux     kernel prior to 4.14-rc1. This can cause a local denial     of service via a kernel panic.(CVE-2017-14340i1/4%0

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through     4.19. An information leak in cdrom_ioctl_select_disc in     drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers     to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned long     to int interferes with bounds     checking.(CVE-2018-18710i1/4%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.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 Azure kernel was updated to 4.4.162 to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2018-18281: The mremap() syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate() removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap(), a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical page after it has been released back to the page allocator and reused. (bnc#1113769).

CVE-2018-18710: An information leak in cdrom_ioctl_select_disc in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned long to int interferes with bounds checking. This is similar to CVE-2018-10940 and CVE-2018-16658 (bnc#1113751).

CVE-2018-18690: A local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesystem non-operational until the next mount by triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs attribute change, because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandled ATTR_REPLACE operations with conversion of an attr from short to long form (bnc#1105025).

CVE-2018-18386: drivers/tty/n_tty.c allowed local attackers (who are able to access pseudo terminals) to hang/block further usage of any pseudo terminal devices due to an EXTPROC versus ICANON confusion in TIOCINQ (bnc#1094825).

CVE-2018-9516: In hid_debug_events_read of drivers/hid/hid-debug.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check.
This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.
(bnc#1108498).

CVE-2018-14633: A security flaw was found in the chap_server_compute_md5() function in the ISCSI target code in a way an authentication request from an ISCSI initiator is processed. An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a stack-based buffer overflow and smash up to 17 bytes of the stack. The attack requires the iSCSI target to be enabled on the victim host. Depending on how the target's code was built (i.e. depending on a compiler, compile flags and hardware architecture) an attack may lead to a system crash and thus to a denial-of-service or possibly to a non-authorized access to data exported by an iSCSI target. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out, although we believe it is highly unlikely. (bnc#1107829).

CVE-2018-17182: The vmacache_flush_all function in mm/vmacache.c mishandled sequence number overflows. An attacker can trigger a use-after-free (and possibly gain privileges) via certain thread creation, map, unmap, invalidation, and dereference operations (bnc#1108399).

CVE-2018-16597: Incorrect access checking in overlayfs mounts could be used by local attackers to modify or truncate files in the underlying filesystem (bnc#1106512).

CVE-2018-14613: There is an invalid pointer dereference in io_ctl_map_page() when mounting and operating a crafted btrfs image, because of a lack of block group item validation in check_leaf_item in fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c (bnc#1102896).

CVE-2018-14617: There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() in fs/hfsplus/dir.c when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory (bnc#1102870).

CVE-2018-16276: Local attackers could use user access read/writes with incorrect bounds checking in the yurex USB driver to crash the kernel or potentially escalate privileges (bnc#1106095 bnc#1115593).

CVE-2018-7757: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file (bnc#1087209).

CVE-2018-7480: The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation failure (bnc#1082863).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

CVE-2018-10853: A flaw was found in the way the KVM hypervisor emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilege(CPL) level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest (bnc#1097104).

CVE-2018-10876: A flaw was found in Linux kernel in the ext4 filesystem code. A use-after-free is possible in ext4_ext_remove_space() function when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image. (bnc#1099811)

CVE-2018-10877: Linux kernel ext4 filesystem is vulnerable to an out-of-bound access in the ext4_ext_drop_refs() function when operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image. (bnc#1099846)

CVE-2018-10878: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write and a denial of service or unspecified other impact is possible by mounting and operating a crafted ext4 filesystem image. (bnc#1099813)

CVE-2018-10879: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause a use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry function and a denial of service or unspecified other impact may occur by renaming a file in a crafted ext4 filesystem image. (bnc#1099844)

CVE-2018-10880: Linux kernel is vulnerable to a stack-out-of-bounds write in the ext4 filesystem code when mounting and writing to a crafted ext4 image in ext4_update_inline_data(). An attacker could use this to cause a system crash and a denial of service. (bnc#1099845)

CVE-2018-10881: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info function, a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image.
(bnc#1099864)

CVE-2018-10882: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bound write in in fs/jbd2/transaction.c code, a denial of service, and a system crash by unmounting a crafted ext4 filesystem image. (bnc#1099849)

CVE-2018-10883: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(), a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image.
(bnc#1099863)

CVE-2018-10902: It was found that the raw midi kernel driver did not protect against concurrent access which leads to a double realloc (double free) in snd_rawmidi_input_params() and snd_rawmidi_output_status() which are part of snd_rawmidi_ioctl() handler in rawmidi.c file. A malicious local attacker could possibly use this for privilege escalation (bnc#1105322).

CVE-2018-10938: A crafted network packet sent remotely by an attacker may force the kernel to enter an infinite loop in the cipso_v4_optptr() function in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c leading to a denial-of-service. A certain non-default configuration of LSM (Linux Security Module) and NetLabel should be set up on a system before an attacker could leverage this flaw (bnc#1106016).

CVE-2018-10940: The cdrom_ioctl_media_changed function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c allowed local attackers to use a incorrect bounds check in the CDROM driver CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED ioctl to read out kernel memory (bnc#1092903).

CVE-2018-12896: An Integer Overflow in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the POSIX timer code is caused by the way the overrun accounting works. Depending on interval and expiry time values, the overrun can be larger than INT_MAX, but the accounting is int based. This basically made the accounting values, which are visible to user space via timer_getoverrun(2) and siginfo::si_overrun, random. For example, a local user can cause a denial of service (signed integer overflow) via crafted mmap, futex, timer_create, and timer_settime system calls (bnc#1099922).

CVE-2018-13093: There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in lookup_slow() on a NULL inode->i_ops pointer when doing pathwalks on a corrupted xfs image. This occurs because of a lack of proper validation that cached inodes are free during allocation (bnc#1100001).

CVE-2018-13094: An OOPS may occur for a corrupted xfs image after xfs_da_shrink_inode() is called with a NULL bp (bnc#1100000).

CVE-2018-13095: A denial of service (memory corruption and BUG) can occur for a corrupted xfs image upon encountering an inode that is in extent format, but has more extents than fit in the inode fork (bnc#1099999).

CVE-2018-14617: There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() in fs/hfsplus/dir.c when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory (bnc#1102870).

CVE-2018-14678: The xen_failsafe_callback entry point in arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S did not properly maintain RBX, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory usage and system crash). Within Xen, 64-bit x86 PV Linux guest OS users can trigger a guest OS crash or possibly gain privileges (bnc#1102715).

CVE-2018-15572: The spectre_v2_select_mitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c did not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which made it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks (bnc#1102517 bnc#1105296).

CVE-2018-15594: arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c mishandled certain indirect calls, which made it easier for attackers to conduct Spectre-v2 attacks against paravirtual guests (bnc#1105348).

CVE-2018-16276: Local attackers could use user access read/writes with incorrect bounds checking in the yurex USB driver to crash the kernel or potentially escalate privileges (bnc#1106095).

CVE-2018-16658: An information leak in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned long to int interferes with bounds checking. This is similar to CVE-2018-10940 (bnc#1107689).

CVE-2018-17182: The vmacache_flush_all function in mm/vmacache.c mishandled sequence number overflows. An attacker can trigger a use-after-free (and possibly gain privileges) via certain thread creation, map, unmap, invalidation, and dereference operations (bnc#1108399).

CVE-2018-6554: Memory leak in the irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly binding an AF_IRDA socket (bnc#1106509).

CVE-2018-6555: The irda_setsockopt function in net/irda/af_irda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (ias_object use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an AF_IRDA socket (bnc#1106511).

CVE-2018-7757: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file (bnc#1084536).

CVE-2018-9363: A buffer overflow in bluetooth HID report processing could be used by malicious bluetooth devices to crash the kernel or potentially execute code (bnc#1105292). The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2018-7480: The blkcg_init_queue function in block/blk-cgroup.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation failure (bnc#1082863).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.156 to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2018-16597: Incorrect access checking in overlayfs mounts could have been used by local attackers to modify or truncate files in the underlying filesystem (bnc#1106512).

CVE-2018-14613: Prevent invalid pointer dereference in io_ctl_map_page() when mounting and operating a crafted btrfs image, caused by a lack of block group item validation in check_leaf_item (bsc#1102896)

CVE-2018-14617: Prevent NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory (bsc#1102870)

CVE-2018-16276: Incorrect bounds checking in the yurex USB driver in yurex_read allowed local attackers to use user access read/writes to crash the kernel or potentially escalate privileges (bsc#1106095)

CVE-2018-7757: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file (bnc#1084536)

CVE-2018-7480: The blkcg_init_queue function allowed local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation failure (bsc#1082863).

CVE-2018-17182: The vmacache_flush_all function in mm/vmacache.c mishandled sequence number overflows. An attacker can trigger a use-after-free (and possibly gain privileges) via certain thread creation, map, unmap, invalidation, and dereference operations (bnc#1108399).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3656-1 advisory.

    Tuba Yavuz discovered that a double-free error existed in the USBTV007 driver of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2017-17975)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the F2FS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-18193)

    It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Hisilicon HNS Ethernet Device driver in the Linux     kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-18222)

    It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not validate that rules containing     jumps contained user-defined chains. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1065)

    It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly validate ebtables     offsets. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1068)

    It was discovered that a null pointer dereference vulnerability existed in the DCCP protocol     implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2018-1130)

    It was discovered that the SCTP Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     userspace provided payload lengths in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-5803)

    It was discovered that a double free error existed in the block layer subsystem of the Linux kernel when     setting up a request queue. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7480)

    It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the SAS driver subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-7757)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the x86 machine check handler in the Linux kernel. A     local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7995)

    Eyal Itkin discovered that the USB displaylink video adapter driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     validate mmap offsets sent from userspace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8781)

    Silvio Cesare discovered a buffer overwrite existed in the NCPFS implementation in the Linux kernel. A     remote attacker controlling a malicious NCPFS server could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8822)

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 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3654-2 advisory.

    USN-3654-1 fixed vulnerabilities and added mitigations in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This     update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 16.04     LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

    Jann Horn and Ken Johnson discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read     may allow unauthorized memory reads via a sidechannel attack. This flaw is known as Spectre Variant 4. A     local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. (CVE-2018-3639)

    Tuba Yavuz discovered that a double-free error existed in the USBTV007 driver of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2017-17975)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the F2FS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-18193)

    It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Hisilicon HNS Ethernet Device driver in the Linux     kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-18222)

    It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not validate that rules containing     jumps contained user-defined chains. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1065)

    It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly validate ebtables     offsets. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1068)

    It was discovered that a null pointer dereference vulnerability existed in the DCCP protocol     implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2018-1130)

    It was discovered that the SCTP Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     userspace provided payload lengths in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-5803)

    It was discovered that a double free error existed in the block layer subsystem of the Linux kernel when     setting up a request queue. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7480)

    It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the SAS driver subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-7757)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the x86 machine check handler in the Linux kernel. A     local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7995)

    Eyal Itkin discovered that the USB displaylink video adapter driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     validate mmap offsets sent from userspace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8781)

    Silvio Cesare discovered a buffer overwrite existed in the NCPFS implementation in the Linux kernel. A     remote attacker controlling a malicious NCPFS server could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8822)

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-3654-1 advisory.

    Jann Horn and Ken Johnson discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read     may allow unauthorized memory reads via a sidechannel attack. This flaw is known as Spectre Variant 4. A     local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. (CVE-2018-3639)

    Tuba Yavuz discovered that a double-free error existed in the USBTV007 driver of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2017-17975)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the F2FS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-18193)

    It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Hisilicon HNS Ethernet Device driver in the Linux     kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-18222)

    It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not validate that rules containing     jumps contained user-defined chains. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1065)

    It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly validate ebtables     offsets. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1068)

    It was discovered that a null pointer dereference vulnerability existed in the DCCP protocol     implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2018-1130)

    It was discovered that the SCTP Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     userspace provided payload lengths in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-5803)

    It was discovered that a double free error existed in the block layer subsystem of the Linux kernel when     setting up a request queue. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7480)

    It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the SAS driver subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-7757)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the x86 machine check handler in the Linux kernel. A     local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7995)

    Eyal Itkin discovered that the USB displaylink video adapter driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     validate mmap offsets sent from userspace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8781)

    Silvio Cesare discovered a buffer overwrite existed in the NCPFS implementation in the Linux kernel. A     remote attacker controlling a malicious NCPFS server could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8822)

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.

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

  - CVE-2017-5715     Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in     various processors supporting speculative execution,     enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process     to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from     the kernel and all other processes running on the     system.

  This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 2 (branch target   injection) and is mitigated for the x86 architecture (amd64 and   i386) by using the 'retpoline' compiler feature which allows   indirect branches to be isolated from speculative execution.

  - CVE-2017-5753     Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in     various processors supporting speculative execution,     enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process     to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from     the kernel and all other processes running on the     system.

  This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 1 (bounds-check   bypass) and is mitigated by identifying vulnerable code sections   (array bounds checking followed by array access) and replacing the   array access with the speculation-safe array_index_nospec()   function.

  More use sites will be added over time.

  - CVE-2017-17975     Tuba Yavuz reported a use-after-free flaw in the     USBTV007 audio-video grabber driver. A local user could     use this for denial of service by triggering failure of     audio registration.

  - CVE-2017-18193     Yunlei He reported that the f2fs implementation does not     properly handle extent trees, allowing a local user to     cause a denial of service via an application with     multiple threads.

  - CVE-2017-18216     Alex Chen reported that the OCFS2 filesystem failed to     hold a necessary lock during nodemanager sysfs file     operations, potentially leading to a NULL pointer     dereference. A local user could use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2017-18218     Jun He reported a use-after-free flaw in the Hisilicon     HNS ethernet driver. A local user could use this for     denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-18222     It was reported that the Hisilicon Network Subsystem     (HNS) driver implementation does not properly handle     ethtool private flags. A local user could use this for     denial of service or possibly have other impact.

  - CVE-2017-18224     Alex Chen reported that the OCFS2 filesystem omits the     use of a semaphore and consequently has a race condition     for access to the extent tree during read operations in     DIRECT mode. A local user could use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2017-18241     Yunlei He reported that the f2fs implementation does not     properly initialise its state if the 'noflush_merge'     mount option is used. A local user with access to a     filesystem mounted with this option could use this to     cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-18257     It was reported that the f2fs implementation is prone to     an infinite loop caused by an integer overflow in the
    __get_data_block() function. A local user can use this     for denial of service via crafted use of the open and     fallocate system calls with an FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl.

  - CVE-2018-1065     The syzkaller tool found a NULL pointer dereference flaw     in the netfilter subsystem when handling certain     malformed iptables rulesets. A local user with the     CAP_NET_RAW or CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in any user     namespace) could use this to cause a denial of service.
    Debian disables unprivileged user namespaces by default.

  - CVE-2018-1066     Dan Aloni reported to Red Hat that the CIFS client     implementation would dereference a NULL pointer if the     server sent an invalid response during NTLMSSP setup     negotiation. This could be used by a malicious server     for denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-1068     The syzkaller tool found that the 32-bit compatibility     layer of ebtables did not sufficiently validate offset     values. On a 64-bit kernel, a local user with the     CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in any user namespace) could     use this to overwrite kernel memory, possibly leading to     privilege escalation. Debian disables unprivileged user     namespaces by default.

  - CVE-2018-1092     Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image     would trigger a null dereference when mounted. A local     user able to mount arbitrary filesystems could use this     for denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-1093     Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image     could trigger an out-of-bounds read in the     ext4_valid_block_bitmap() function. A local user able to     mount arbitrary filesystems could use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2018-1108     Jann Horn reported that crng_ready() does not properly     handle the crng_init variable states and the RNG could     be treated as cryptographically safe too early after     system boot.

  - CVE-2018-5803     Alexey Kodanev reported that the SCTP protocol did not     range-check the length of chunks to be created. A local     or remote user could use this to cause a denial of     service.

  - CVE-2018-7480     Hou Tao discovered a double-free flaw in the     blkcg_init_queue() function in block/blk-cgroup.c. A     local user could use this to cause a denial of service     or have other impact.

  - CVE-2018-7566     Fan LongFei reported a race condition in the ALSA     (sound) sequencer core, between write and ioctl     operations. This could lead to an out-of-bounds access     or use-after-free. A local user with access to a     sequencer device could use this for denial of service or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-7740     Nic Losby reported that the hugetlbfs filesystem's mmap     operation did not properly range-check the file offset.
    A local user with access to files on a hugetlbfs     filesystem could use this to cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-7757     Jason Yan reported a memory leak in the SAS     (Serial-Attached SCSI) subsystem. A local user on a     system with SAS devices could use this to cause a denial     of service.

  - CVE-2018-7995     Seunghun Han reported a race condition in the x86 MCE     (Machine Check Exception) driver. This is unlikely to     have any security impact.

  - CVE-2018-8087     A memory leak flaw was found in the hwsim_new_radio_nl()     function in the simulated radio testing tool driver for     mac80211, allowing a local user to cause a denial of     service.

  - CVE-2018-8781     Eyal Itkin reported that the udl (DisplayLink) driver's     mmap operation did not properly range-check the file     offset. A local user with access to a udl framebuffer     device could exploit this to overwrite kernel memory,     leading to privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-8822     Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect reported that the ncpfs     client implementation did not validate reply lengths     from the server. An ncpfs server could use this to cause     a denial of service or remote code execution in the     client.

  - CVE-2018-10323     Wen Xu reported a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the     xfs_bmapi_write() function triggered when mounting and     operating a crafted xfs filesystem image. A local user     able to mount arbitrary filesystems could use this for     denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-1000199     Andy Lutomirski discovered that the ptrace subsystem did     not sufficiently validate hardware breakpoint settings.
    Local users can use this to cause a denial of service,     or possibly for privilege escalation, on x86 (amd64 and     i386) and possibly other architectures.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
290729	Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-001156)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	high
286358	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003556)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	high
286310	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003503)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	high
246555	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-7480	Nessus	Misc.	high
124795	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1471)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
121208	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0095-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
118194	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-1184)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
118034	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:3084-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
117933	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:3003-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
110051	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2, Snapdragon) vulnerabilities (USN-3656-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
110049	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3654-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
110048	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3654-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
109518	Debian DSA-4188-1 : linux - security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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