The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4984-1 advisory.

    Jan Beulich discovered that the Xen netback backend in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain     error conditions under paravirtualization. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a     denial of service (host domain crash). (CVE-2021-28038)

    It was discovered that the Realtek RTL8188EU Wireless device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     validate ssid lengths in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2021-28660)

    It was discovered that the Xen paravirtualization backend in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate     memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2021-28688)

    It was discovered that the fuse user space file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     handle bad inodes in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2021-28950)

    John Stultz discovered that the audio driver for Qualcomm SDM845 systems in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate port ID numbers. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-28952)

    Zygo Blaxell discovered that the btrfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race     condition during certain cloning operations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2021-28964)

    Vince Weaver discovered that the perf subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain PEBS     records properly for some Intel Haswell processors. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2021-28971)

    It was discovered that the RPA PCI Hotplug driver implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     handle device name writes via sysfs, leading to a buffer overflow. A privileged attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-28972)

    It was discovered that the Qualcomm IPC router implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize memory passed to user space. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2021-29647)

    Arnd Bergmann discovered that the video4linux subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate     memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2021-30002)

    Dan Carpenter discovered that the block device manager (dm) implementation in the Linux kernel contained a     buffer overflow in the ioctl for listing devices. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2021-31916)

    It was discovered that the CIPSO implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference     counting in some situations, leading to use- after-free vulnerabilities. An attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-33033)

     discovered that the IEEE 1394 (Firewire) nosy packet sniffer driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly perform reference counting in some situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local     attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2021-3483)

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.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4984-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150292

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