Improper signature verification in AMD CPU ROM microcode patch loader may allow an attacker with local administrator privilege to load malicious microcode, potentially resulting in loss of integrity of x86 instruction execution, loss of confidentiality and integrity of data in x86 CPU privileged context and compromise of SMM execution environment.

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-8179-1 advisory.

    Josh Eads, Kristoffer Janke, Eduardo Vela Nava, Tavis Ormandy, and Matteo Rizzo discovered that some AMD     Zen processors did not properly verify the signature of CPU microcode. This flaw is known as EntrySign. A     privileged attacker could possibly use this issue to cause load malicious CPU microcode causing loss of     integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2024-36347)

    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:

    - MIPS architecture;

    - PowerPC architecture;

    - x86 architecture;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - ACPI drivers;

    - Network block device driver;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Character device driver;

    - TPM device driver;

    - Clock framework and drivers;

    - Data acquisition framework and drivers;

    - Hardware crypto device drivers;

    - GPU drivers;

    - Hardware monitoring drivers;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - Input Device core drivers;

    - IOMMU subsystem;

    - IRQ chip drivers;

    - Macintosh device drivers;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - Media drivers;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - STMicroelectronics network drivers;

    - Ethernet team driver;

    - MediaTek network drivers;

    - NVME drivers;

    - PA-RISC drivers;

    - Chrome hardware platform drivers;

    - x86 platform drivers;

    - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) driver;

    - Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - USB Host Controller drivers;

    - USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;

    - Backlight driver;

    - Watchdog drivers;

    - BFS file system;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - F2FS file system;

    - FUSE (File system in Userspace);

    - HFS+ file system;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - Journaling layer for block devices (JBD2);

    - Network file system (NFS) client;

    - File system notification infrastructure;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - OCFS2 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - Ethernet bridge;

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - Locking primitives;

    - Scheduler infrastructure;

    - Shadow Call Stack mechanism;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - Memory management;

    - CAIF protocol;

    - Ceph Core library;

    - Networking core;

    - Ethtool driver;

    - Handshake API;

    - HSR network protocol;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - MAC80211 subsystem;

    - Multipath TCP;

    - Netfilter;

    - NET/ROM layer;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - Open vSwitch;

    - Rose network layer;

    - Network traffic control;

    - Network sockets;

    - Sun RPC protocol;

    - Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;

    - Key management;

    - Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel framework;

    - FireWire sound drivers;

    - HD-audio driver;

    - Turtle Beach Wavefront ALSA driver;

    - STMicroelectronics SoC drivers;

    - USB sound devices;

    - KVM subsystem; (CVE-2024-57795, CVE-2025-22022, CVE-2025-22111, CVE-2025-38022, CVE-2025-38234,     CVE-2025-40164, CVE-2025-40325, CVE-2025-68206, CVE-2025-68254, CVE-2025-68255, CVE-2025-68256,     CVE-2025-68257, CVE-2025-68258, CVE-2025-68259, CVE-2025-68261, CVE-2025-68263, CVE-2025-68264,     CVE-2025-68265, CVE-2025-68266, CVE-2025-68291, CVE-2025-68325, CVE-2025-68332, CVE-2025-68335,     CVE-2025-68336, CVE-2025-68337, CVE-2025-68344, CVE-2025-68345, CVE-2025-68346, CVE-2025-68347,     CVE-2025-68349, CVE-2025-68354, CVE-2025-68362, CVE-2025-68363, CVE-2025-68364, CVE-2025-68366,     CVE-2025-68367, CVE-2025-68369, CVE-2025-68371, CVE-2025-68372, CVE-2025-68374, CVE-2025-68378,     CVE-2025-68379, CVE-2025-68380, CVE-2025-68724, CVE-2025-68727, CVE-2025-68728, CVE-2025-68732,     CVE-2025-68733, CVE-2025-68740, CVE-2025-68741, CVE-2025-68742, CVE-2025-68744, CVE-2025-68746,     CVE-2025-68753, CVE-2025-68755, CVE-2025-68756, CVE-2025-68757, CVE-2025-68758, CVE-2025-68759,     CVE-2025-68763, CVE-2025-68764, CVE-2025-68765, CVE-2025-68766, CVE-2025-68767, CVE-2025-68769,     CVE-2025-68770, CVE-2025-68771, CVE-2025-68772, CVE-2025-68773, CVE-2025-68774, CVE-2025-68775,     CVE-2025-68776, CVE-2025-68777, CVE-2025-68778, CVE-2025-68780, CVE-2025-68782, CVE-2025-68783,     CVE-2025-68785, CVE-2025-68786, CVE-2025-68787, CVE-2025-68788, CVE-2025-68794, CVE-2025-68795,     CVE-2025-68796, CVE-2025-68797, CVE-2025-68798, CVE-2025-68799, CVE-2025-68800, CVE-2025-68801,     CVE-2025-68804, CVE-2025-68806, CVE-2025-68808, CVE-2025-68809, CVE-2025-68810, CVE-2025-68811,     CVE-2025-68813, CVE-2025-68814, CVE-2025-68815, CVE-2025-68816, CVE-2025-68817, CVE-2025-68818,     CVE-2025-68819, CVE-2025-68820, CVE-2025-68821, CVE-2025-71064, CVE-2025-71065, CVE-2025-71066,     CVE-2025-71067, CVE-2025-71068, CVE-2025-71069, CVE-2025-71071, CVE-2025-71072, CVE-2025-71075,     CVE-2025-71077, CVE-2025-71078, CVE-2025-71079, CVE-2025-71081, CVE-2025-71082, CVE-2025-71083,     CVE-2025-71084, CVE-2025-71085, CVE-2025-71086, CVE-2025-71087, CVE-2025-71088, CVE-2025-71089,     CVE-2025-71091, CVE-2025-71093, CVE-2025-71094, CVE-2025-71095, CVE-2025-71096, CVE-2025-71097,     CVE-2025-71098, CVE-2025-71101, CVE-2025-71102, CVE-2025-71104, CVE-2025-71105, CVE-2025-71107,     CVE-2025-71108, CVE-2025-71109, CVE-2025-71111, CVE-2025-71112, CVE-2025-71113, CVE-2025-71114,     CVE-2025-71116, CVE-2025-71118, CVE-2025-71119, CVE-2025-71120, CVE-2025-71121, CVE-2025-71122,     CVE-2025-71123, CVE-2025-71125, CVE-2025-71126, CVE-2025-71127, CVE-2025-71130, CVE-2025-71131,     CVE-2025-71132, CVE-2025-71133, CVE-2025-71135, CVE-2025-71136, CVE-2025-71137, CVE-2025-71138,     CVE-2025-71140, CVE-2025-71141, CVE-2025-71143, CVE-2025-71144, CVE-2025-71147, CVE-2025-71148,     CVE-2025-71149, CVE-2025-71150, CVE-2025-71151, CVE-2025-71153, CVE-2025-71154, CVE-2026-23209)

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 25.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8177-1 advisory.

    Josh Eads, Kristoffer Janke, Eduardo Vela Nava, Tavis Ormandy, and Matteo Rizzo discovered that some AMD     Zen processors did not properly verify the signature of CPU microcode. This flaw is known as EntrySign. A     privileged attacker could possibly use this issue to cause load malicious CPU microcode causing loss of     integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2024-36347)

    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:

    - MIPS architecture;

    - PowerPC architecture;

    - User-Mode Linux (UML);

    - x86 architecture;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - ACPI drivers;

    - Ublk userspace block driver;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Character device driver;

    - TPM device driver;

    - Clock framework and drivers;

    - GPU drivers;

    - Hardware monitoring drivers;

    - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - Input Device core drivers;

    - Input Device (Mouse) drivers;

    - IOMMU subsystem;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - Media drivers;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - STMicroelectronics network drivers;

    - Ethernet team driver;

    - PA-RISC drivers;

    - Chrome hardware platform drivers;

    - x86 platform drivers;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - Freescale USB OTG Transceiver Driver;

    - USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;

    - Watchdog drivers;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - exFAT file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - F2FS file system;

    - FUSE (File system in Userspace);

    - HFS+ file system;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

    - File system notification infrastructure;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - OCFS2 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - XFS file system;

    - User-space API (UAPI);

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - Scheduler infrastructure;

    - Shadow Call Stack mechanism;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - Memory management;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - CAIF protocol;

    - Ceph Core library;

    - Networking core;

    - Ethtool driver;

    - Handshake API;

    - HSR network protocol;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - Multipath TCP;

    - Netfilter;

    - NET/ROM layer;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - Open vSwitch;

    - Rose network layer;

    - Network traffic control;

    - Sun RPC protocol;

    - Key management;

    - Landlock security;

    - STMicroelectronics SoC drivers;

    - USB sound devices;

    - KVM subsystem; (CVE-2025-68351, CVE-2025-68353, CVE-2025-68365, CVE-2025-68368, CVE-2025-68725,     CVE-2025-68736, CVE-2025-68745, CVE-2025-68767, CVE-2025-68768, CVE-2025-68769, CVE-2025-68770,     CVE-2025-68771, CVE-2025-68772, CVE-2025-68773, CVE-2025-68774, CVE-2025-68775, CVE-2025-68776,     CVE-2025-68777, CVE-2025-68778, CVE-2025-68780, CVE-2025-68781, CVE-2025-68782, CVE-2025-68783,     CVE-2025-68784, CVE-2025-68785, CVE-2025-68786, CVE-2025-68787, CVE-2025-68788, CVE-2025-68791,     CVE-2025-68792, CVE-2025-68793, CVE-2025-68794, CVE-2025-68795, CVE-2025-68796, CVE-2025-68797,     CVE-2025-68798, CVE-2025-68799, CVE-2025-68800, CVE-2025-68801, CVE-2025-68802, CVE-2025-68803,     CVE-2025-68804, CVE-2025-68805, CVE-2025-68806, CVE-2025-68807, CVE-2025-68808, CVE-2025-68809,     CVE-2025-68810, CVE-2025-68811, CVE-2025-68813, CVE-2025-68814, CVE-2025-68815, CVE-2025-68816,     CVE-2025-68817, CVE-2025-68818, CVE-2025-68819, CVE-2025-68820, CVE-2025-68821, CVE-2025-68822,     CVE-2025-68823, CVE-2025-71064, CVE-2025-71065, CVE-2025-71066, CVE-2025-71067, CVE-2025-71068,     CVE-2025-71069, CVE-2025-71070, CVE-2025-71071, CVE-2025-71072, CVE-2025-71073, CVE-2025-71075,     CVE-2025-71076, CVE-2025-71077, CVE-2025-71078, CVE-2025-71079, CVE-2025-71080, CVE-2025-71081,     CVE-2025-71082, CVE-2025-71083, CVE-2025-71084, CVE-2025-71085, CVE-2025-71086, CVE-2025-71087,     CVE-2025-71089, CVE-2025-71091, CVE-2025-71093, CVE-2025-71094, CVE-2025-71095, CVE-2025-71096,     CVE-2025-71097, CVE-2025-71098, CVE-2025-71099, CVE-2025-71100, CVE-2025-71101, CVE-2025-71102,     CVE-2025-71104, CVE-2025-71105, CVE-2025-71107, CVE-2025-71108, CVE-2025-71109, CVE-2025-71111,     CVE-2025-71112, CVE-2025-71113, CVE-2025-71114, CVE-2025-71115, CVE-2025-71116, CVE-2025-71117,     CVE-2025-71118, CVE-2025-71119, CVE-2025-71120, CVE-2025-71121, CVE-2025-71122, CVE-2025-71123,     CVE-2025-71124, CVE-2025-71125, CVE-2025-71126, CVE-2025-71130, CVE-2025-71131, CVE-2025-71132,     CVE-2025-71133, CVE-2025-71135, CVE-2025-71136, CVE-2025-71137, CVE-2025-71138, CVE-2025-71140,     CVE-2025-71143, CVE-2025-71146, CVE-2025-71147, CVE-2025-71148, CVE-2025-71149, CVE-2025-71150,     CVE-2025-71151, CVE-2025-71153, CVE-2025-71154, CVE-2025-71156, CVE-2025-71157, CVE-2026-23091,     CVE-2026-23209)

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

  - Improper signature verification in AMD CPU ROM microcode patch loader may allow an attacker with local     administrator privilege to load malicious microcode, potentially resulting in loss of integrity of x86     instruction execution, loss of confidentiality and integrity of data in x86 CPU privileged context and     compromise of SMM execution environment. (CVE-2024-36347)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
307007	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8179-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
307005	Ubuntu 25.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8177-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
232192	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-36347	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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