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-5418-1 advisory.

    Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira     Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient     in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2021-26401)

    Demi Marie Obenour and Simon Gaiser discovered that several Xen para- virtualization device frontends did     not properly restrict the access rights of device backends. An attacker could possibly use a malicious Xen     backend to gain access to memory pages of a guest VM or cause a denial of service in the guest.
    (CVE-2022-23036, CVE-2022-23037, CVE-2022-23038, CVE-2022-23039, CVE-2022-23040, CVE-2022-23042)

    It was discovered that the USB Gadget file system interface in the Linux kernel contained 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-2022-24958)

    It was discovered that the USB gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate interface     descriptor requests. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2022-25258)

    It was discovered that the Remote NDIS (RNDIS) USB gadget implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. An attacker could possibly use this to expose     sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2022-25375)

    It was discovered that the ST21NFCA NFC driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the size of     certain data in EVT_TRANSACTION events. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-26490)

    It was discovered that the USB SR9700 ethernet device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly     validate the length of requests from the device. A physically proximate attacker could possibly use this     to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2022-26966)

    It was discovered that the Xilinx USB2 device gadget driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     endpoint indices from the host. A physically proximate attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash). (CVE-2022-27223)

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 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5418-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161060

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Version 1.7 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.6 Jan 10, 2024, 8:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401100845
Version 1.5 Oct 16, 2023, 9:38 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202310162138
Version 1.5 Jan 9, 2024, 6:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401091856
Version 1.4 Jul 11, 2023, 4:01 AM Detection Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202307110401
Version 1.4 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.3 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901
Version 1.3 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM Detection Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202307110148