The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3469-2 advisory.

  - The make_response function in drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.8 allows     guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS (or other guest OS) kernel memory by     leveraging the copying of uninitialized padding fields in Xen block-interface response structures, aka     XSA-216. (CVE-2017-10911)

  - A security flaw was discovered in the nl80211_set_rekey_data() function in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the     Linux kernel through 4.13.3. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a     Netlink request. This request can be issued by a user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and may result in     a NULL pointer dereference and system crash. (CVE-2017-12153)

  - The prepare_vmcs02 function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.3 does not ensure that     the CR8-load exiting and CR8-store exiting L0 vmcs02 controls exist in cases where L1 omits the use     TPR shadow vmcs12 control, which allows KVM L2 guest OS users to obtain read and write access to the     hardware CR8 register. (CVE-2017-12154)

  - The keyctl_read_key function in security/keys/keyctl.c in the Key Management subcomponent in the Linux     kernel before 4.13.5 does not properly consider that a key may be possessed but negatively instantiated,     which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS and system crash) via a crafted KEYCTL_READ     operation. (CVE-2017-12192)

  - An integer overflow in the qla2x00_sysfs_write_optrom_ctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c in     the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and     system crash) by leveraging root access. (CVE-2017-14051)

  - The atyfb_ioctl function in drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 does     not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from     kernel stack memory by reading locations associated with padding bytes. (CVE-2017-14156)

  - The XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE macro in fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13.2 does not verify     that a filesystem has a realtime device, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and OOPS) via vectors related to setting an RHINHERIT flag on a directory.
    (CVE-2017-14340)

  - The iscsi_if_rx function in drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.2 allows     local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging incorrect length validation.
    (CVE-2017-14489)

  - The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to obtain     sensitive information from uninitialized kernel heap-memory locations via an SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE ioctl     call for /dev/sg0. (CVE-2017-14991)

  - The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, when a processor supports     the xsave feature but not the xsaves feature, does not correctly handle attempts to set reserved bits in     the xstate header via the ptrace() or rt_sigreturn() system call, allowing local users to read the FPU     registers of other processes on the system, related to arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c and     arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c. (CVE-2017-15537)

  - The snd_msnd_interrupt function in sound/isa/msnd/msnd_pinnacle.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.7     allows local users to cause a denial of service (over-boundary access) or possibly have unspecified other     impact by changing the value of a message queue head pointer between two kernel reads of that value, aka a     double fetch vulnerability. (CVE-2017-9984)

  - The snd_msndmidi_input_read function in sound/isa/msnd/msnd_midi.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.7     allows local users to cause a denial of service (over-boundary access) or possibly have unspecified other     impact by changing the value of a message queue head pointer between two kernel reads of that value, aka a     double fetch vulnerability. (CVE-2017-9985)

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

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3469-2)

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