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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5319-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 158728

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5319-1 advisory.

 Enrico Barberis, Pietro Frigo, Marius Muench, Herbert Bos, and Cristiano Giuffrida discovered that hardware mitigations added by Intel to their processors to address Spectre-BTI were insufficient. A local attacker could potentially use this to expose sensitive information.

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.

Solution

Update the affected kernel package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5319-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 158728

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5319-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/9/2022

Updated: 8/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0002

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1109-kvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1037-dell300x, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1133-azure, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-171-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1123-aws, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1118-gcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-171-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1122-snapdragon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-171-generic-lpae, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.4.0-221-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.4.0-1137-aws, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.4.0-221-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1089-oracle, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1105-raspi2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.15.0-1123-aws-hwe, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.4.0-1102-kvm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0001, CVE-2022-0002

USN: 5319-1