The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3930-2 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel through 4.19.6, a local user could exploit a use-after-free in the ALSA driver by     supplying a malicious USB Sound device (with zero interfaces) that is mishandled in usb_audio_probe in     sound/usb/card.c. (CVE-2018-19824)

  - A heap address information leak while using L2CAP_GET_CONF_OPT was discovered in the Linux kernel before     5.1-rc1. (CVE-2019-3459)

  - A heap data infoleak in multiple locations including L2CAP_PARSE_CONF_RSP was found in the Linux kernel     before 5.1-rc1. (CVE-2019-3460)

  - In the Linux kernel before 4.20.8, kvm_ioctl_create_device in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c mishandles reference     counting because of a race condition, leading to a use-after-free. (CVE-2019-6974)

  - The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.20.5 has a Use-after-Free. (CVE-2019-7221)

  - The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.20.5 has an Information Leak. (CVE-2019-7222)

  - kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on     pointer arithmetic in various cases, including cases of different branches with different state or limits     to sanitize, leading to side-channel attacks. (CVE-2019-7308)

  - In the Linux kernel through 4.20.11, af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for     a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr. (CVE-2019-8912)

  - In the Linux Kernel before versions 4.20.8 and 4.19.21 a use-after-free error in the sctp_sendmsg()     function (net/sctp/socket.c) when handling SCTP_SENDALL flag can be exploited to corrupt memory.
    (CVE-2019-8956)

  - A memory leak in the kernel_read_file function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel through 4.20.11 allows     attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering vfs_read failures.
    (CVE-2019-8980)

  - In the Linux kernel before 4.20.5, attackers can trigger a drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c use-after-     free and OOPS by arranging for certain simultaneous execution of the code, as demonstrated by a service     ipmievd restart loop. (CVE-2019-9003)

  - In the Linux kernel before 4.20.12, net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic_main.c in the SNMP NAT module has     insufficient ASN.1 length checks (aka an array index error), making out-of-bounds read and write     operations possible, leading to an OOPS or local privilege escalation. This affects snmp_version and     snmp_helper. (CVE-2019-9162)

  - In the Linux kernel before 4.20.14, expand_downwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a check for the mmap minimum     address, which makes it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP     platforms. This is related to a capability check for the wrong task. (CVE-2019-9213)

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 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3930-2)

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Version 1.11 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401100845
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Version 1.10 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2019-6974") Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906