In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--) skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak. Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i down to 0. Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8289-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Linux kernel algif_aead module did not properly handle in-place cryptographic     operations. This flaw is known as Copy Fail. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or     possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-31431)

    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:

    - ARM64 architecture;

    - x86 architecture;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - Compute Acceleration Framework;

    - Drivers core;

    - Null block device driver;

    - Ublk userspace block driver;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Counter interface drivers;

    - DMA engine subsystem;

    - DPLL subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - HID subsystem;

    - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers;

    - IIO ADC drivers;

    - IIO subsystem;

    - On-Chip Interconnect management framework;

    - IRQ chip drivers;

    - Modular ISDN driver;

    - LED subsystem;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - UACCE accelerator framework;

    - MMC subsystem;

    - Ethernet bonding driver;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - NVME drivers;

    - PHY drivers;

    - x86 platform drivers;

    - i.MX PM domains;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - SLIMbus drivers;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver;

    - Xen hypervisor drivers;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - EFI Variable file system;

    - exFAT file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - HFS+ file system;

    - Network file system (NFS) client;

    - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - Scheduler infrastructure;

    - Netfilter;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - Perf events;

    - Floating proportions library;

    - Memory management;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - CAN network layer;

    - Ceph Core library;

    - Networking core;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - L2TP protocol;

    - MAC80211 subsystem;

    - NET/ROM layer;

    - Packet sockets;

    - Network traffic control;

    - SCTP protocol;

    - TLS protocol;

    - Unix domain sockets;

    - VMware vSockets driver;

    - Wireless networking;

    - ALSA AC97 driver;

    - Generic PCM loopback sound driver;

    - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver;

    - AMD SoC Alsa drivers;

    - Texas InstrumentS Audio (ASoC/HDA) drivers;

    - USB sound devices;

    - KVM subsystem; (CVE-2024-50004, CVE-2024-58096, CVE-2024-58097, CVE-2025-37926, CVE-2025-38201,     CVE-2025-38591, CVE-2025-40039, CVE-2025-40082, CVE-2025-40149, CVE-2025-68351, CVE-2025-68358,     CVE-2025-68365, CVE-2025-68725, CVE-2025-68749, CVE-2025-68803, CVE-2025-68823, CVE-2025-71160,     CVE-2025-71162, CVE-2025-71163, CVE-2025-71180, CVE-2025-71182, CVE-2025-71183, CVE-2025-71184,     CVE-2025-71185, CVE-2025-71186, CVE-2025-71188, CVE-2025-71189, CVE-2025-71190, CVE-2025-71191,     CVE-2025-71192, CVE-2025-71193, CVE-2025-71194, CVE-2025-71195, CVE-2025-71196, CVE-2025-71197,     CVE-2025-71198, CVE-2025-71199, CVE-2025-71200, CVE-2025-71220, CVE-2025-71222, CVE-2025-71224,     CVE-2025-71225, CVE-2025-71268, CVE-2026-22976, CVE-2026-22977, CVE-2026-22978, CVE-2026-22979,     CVE-2026-22980, CVE-2026-22982, CVE-2026-22984, CVE-2026-22990, CVE-2026-22991, CVE-2026-22992,     CVE-2026-22994, CVE-2026-22996, CVE-2026-22997, CVE-2026-22998, CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23000,     CVE-2026-23001, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23005, CVE-2026-23006, CVE-2026-23010, CVE-2026-23011,     CVE-2026-23019, CVE-2026-23020, CVE-2026-23021, CVE-2026-23025, CVE-2026-23026, CVE-2026-23030,     CVE-2026-23031, CVE-2026-23032, CVE-2026-23033, CVE-2026-23035, CVE-2026-23037, CVE-2026-23038,     CVE-2026-23047, CVE-2026-23049, CVE-2026-23050, CVE-2026-23053, CVE-2026-23054, CVE-2026-23056,     CVE-2026-23057, CVE-2026-23058, CVE-2026-23059, CVE-2026-23061, CVE-2026-23062, CVE-2026-23063,     CVE-2026-23064, CVE-2026-23065, CVE-2026-23068, CVE-2026-23069, CVE-2026-23071, CVE-2026-23073,     CVE-2026-23075, CVE-2026-23076, CVE-2026-23078, CVE-2026-23080, CVE-2026-23083, CVE-2026-23084,     CVE-2026-23085, CVE-2026-23086, CVE-2026-23087, CVE-2026-23088, CVE-2026-23089, CVE-2026-23090,     CVE-2026-23091, CVE-2026-23093, CVE-2026-23094, CVE-2026-23095, CVE-2026-23096, CVE-2026-23097,     CVE-2026-23098, CVE-2026-23099, CVE-2026-23101, CVE-2026-23102, CVE-2026-23103, CVE-2026-23105,     CVE-2026-23107, CVE-2026-23108, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-23113, CVE-2026-23116, CVE-2026-23119,     CVE-2026-23120, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2026-23123, CVE-2026-23124, CVE-2026-23125, CVE-2026-23126,     CVE-2026-23128, CVE-2026-23129, CVE-2026-23131, CVE-2026-23133, CVE-2026-23135, CVE-2026-23136,     CVE-2026-23139, CVE-2026-23140, CVE-2026-23141, CVE-2026-23142, CVE-2026-23144, CVE-2026-23145,     CVE-2026-23146, CVE-2026-23148, CVE-2026-23150, CVE-2026-23151, CVE-2026-23156, CVE-2026-23159,     CVE-2026-23160, CVE-2026-23163, CVE-2026-23164, CVE-2026-23166, CVE-2026-23167, CVE-2026-23168,     CVE-2026-23170, CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-23173, CVE-2026-23176, CVE-2026-23178, CVE-2026-23179,     CVE-2026-23180, CVE-2026-23182, CVE-2026-23187, CVE-2026-23190, CVE-2026-23191, CVE-2026-23193,     CVE-2026-23198, CVE-2026-23200, CVE-2026-23204, CVE-2026-23205, CVE-2026-23206, CVE-2026-23212,     CVE-2026-23213, CVE-2026-23214, CVE-2026-23215, CVE-2026-23216, CVE-2026-23254, CVE-2026-23256,     CVE-2026-23257, CVE-2026-23258, CVE-2026-23260, CVE-2026-23261, CVE-2026-23262, CVE-2026-23264,     CVE-2026-23274, CVE-2026-23351, CVE-2026-23394, CVE-2026-31419, CVE-2026-31504, CVE-2026-31533,     CVE-2026-43033, CVE-2026-43077, CVE-2026-43078)

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 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8278-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Linux kernel algif_aead module did not properly handle in-place cryptographic     operations. This flaw is known as Copy Fail. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or     possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-31431)

    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:

    - ARM64 architecture;

    - x86 architecture;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - Compute Acceleration Framework;

    - Drivers core;

    - Null block device driver;

    - Ublk userspace block driver;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Counter interface drivers;

    - DMA engine subsystem;

    - DPLL subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - HID subsystem;

    - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers;

    - IIO ADC drivers;

    - IIO subsystem;

    - On-Chip Interconnect management framework;

    - IRQ chip drivers;

    - Modular ISDN driver;

    - LED subsystem;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - UACCE accelerator framework;

    - MMC subsystem;

    - Ethernet bonding driver;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - NVME drivers;

    - PHY drivers;

    - x86 platform drivers;

    - i.MX PM domains;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - SLIMbus drivers;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver;

    - Xen hypervisor drivers;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - EFI Variable file system;

    - exFAT file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - HFS+ file system;

    - Network file system (NFS) client;

    - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - Scheduler infrastructure;

    - Netfilter;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - Perf events;

    - Floating proportions library;

    - Memory management;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - CAN network layer;

    - Ceph Core library;

    - Networking core;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - L2TP protocol;

    - MAC80211 subsystem;

    - NET/ROM layer;

    - Packet sockets;

    - Network traffic control;

    - SCTP protocol;

    - TLS protocol;

    - Unix domain sockets;

    - VMware vSockets driver;

    - Wireless networking;

    - ALSA AC97 driver;

    - Generic PCM loopback sound driver;

    - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver;

    - AMD SoC Alsa drivers;

    - Texas InstrumentS Audio (ASoC/HDA) drivers;

    - USB sound devices;

    - KVM subsystem; (CVE-2024-50004, CVE-2024-58096, CVE-2024-58097, CVE-2025-37926, CVE-2025-38201,     CVE-2025-38591, CVE-2025-40039, CVE-2025-40082, CVE-2025-40149, CVE-2025-68351, CVE-2025-68358,     CVE-2025-68365, CVE-2025-68725, CVE-2025-68749, CVE-2025-68803, CVE-2025-68823, CVE-2025-71160,     CVE-2025-71162, CVE-2025-71163, CVE-2025-71180, CVE-2025-71182, CVE-2025-71183, CVE-2025-71184,     CVE-2025-71185, CVE-2025-71186, CVE-2025-71188, CVE-2025-71189, CVE-2025-71190, CVE-2025-71191,     CVE-2025-71192, CVE-2025-71193, CVE-2025-71194, CVE-2025-71195, CVE-2025-71196, CVE-2025-71197,     CVE-2025-71198, CVE-2025-71199, CVE-2025-71200, CVE-2025-71220, CVE-2025-71222, CVE-2025-71224,     CVE-2025-71225, CVE-2025-71268, CVE-2026-22976, CVE-2026-22977, CVE-2026-22978, CVE-2026-22979,     CVE-2026-22980, CVE-2026-22982, CVE-2026-22984, CVE-2026-22990, CVE-2026-22991, CVE-2026-22992,     CVE-2026-22994, CVE-2026-22996, CVE-2026-22997, CVE-2026-22998, CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23000,     CVE-2026-23001, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23005, CVE-2026-23006, CVE-2026-23010, CVE-2026-23011,     CVE-2026-23019, CVE-2026-23020, CVE-2026-23021, CVE-2026-23025, CVE-2026-23026, CVE-2026-23030,     CVE-2026-23031, CVE-2026-23032, CVE-2026-23033, CVE-2026-23035, CVE-2026-23037, CVE-2026-23038,     CVE-2026-23047, CVE-2026-23049, CVE-2026-23050, CVE-2026-23053, CVE-2026-23054, CVE-2026-23056,     CVE-2026-23057, CVE-2026-23058, CVE-2026-23059, CVE-2026-23061, CVE-2026-23062, CVE-2026-23063,     CVE-2026-23064, CVE-2026-23065, CVE-2026-23068, CVE-2026-23069, CVE-2026-23071, CVE-2026-23073,     CVE-2026-23075, CVE-2026-23076, CVE-2026-23078, CVE-2026-23080, CVE-2026-23083, CVE-2026-23084,     CVE-2026-23085, CVE-2026-23086, CVE-2026-23087, CVE-2026-23088, CVE-2026-23089, CVE-2026-23090,     CVE-2026-23091, CVE-2026-23093, CVE-2026-23094, CVE-2026-23095, CVE-2026-23096, CVE-2026-23097,     CVE-2026-23098, CVE-2026-23099, CVE-2026-23101, CVE-2026-23102, CVE-2026-23103, CVE-2026-23105,     CVE-2026-23107, CVE-2026-23108, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-23113, CVE-2026-23116, CVE-2026-23119,     CVE-2026-23120, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2026-23123, CVE-2026-23124, CVE-2026-23125, CVE-2026-23126,     CVE-2026-23128, CVE-2026-23129, CVE-2026-23131, CVE-2026-23133, CVE-2026-23135, CVE-2026-23136,     CVE-2026-23139, CVE-2026-23140, CVE-2026-23141, CVE-2026-23142, CVE-2026-23144, CVE-2026-23145,     CVE-2026-23146, CVE-2026-23148, CVE-2026-23150, CVE-2026-23151, CVE-2026-23156, CVE-2026-23159,     CVE-2026-23160, CVE-2026-23163, CVE-2026-23164, CVE-2026-23166, CVE-2026-23167, CVE-2026-23168,     CVE-2026-23170, CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-23173, CVE-2026-23176, CVE-2026-23178, CVE-2026-23179,     CVE-2026-23180, CVE-2026-23182, CVE-2026-23187, CVE-2026-23190, CVE-2026-23191, CVE-2026-23193,     CVE-2026-23198, CVE-2026-23200, CVE-2026-23202, CVE-2026-23204, CVE-2026-23205, CVE-2026-23206,     CVE-2026-23212, CVE-2026-23213, CVE-2026-23214, CVE-2026-23215, CVE-2026-23216, CVE-2026-23254,     CVE-2026-23256, CVE-2026-23257, CVE-2026-23258, CVE-2026-23260, CVE-2026-23261, CVE-2026-23262,     CVE-2026-23264, CVE-2026-23274, CVE-2026-23351, CVE-2026-23394, CVE-2026-31419, CVE-2026-31504,     CVE-2026-31533, CVE-2026-43033, CVE-2026-43077, CVE-2026-43078)

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.

  - net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup In setup_nic_devices(), the     initialization loop jumps to the label setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--)     skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak. Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current     index i down to 0. Compile tested only. Issue found using code review. (CVE-2026-23256)

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

An update of the linux package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
316060	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities (USN-8289-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
315738	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8278-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
303103	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2026-114 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2026-114)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
302950	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-23256	Nessus	Misc.	medium
299743	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2026-5.0-0770	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical

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