The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7535-1 advisory.

    Sander Wiebing and Cristiano Giuffrida discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly handle     data in Shared Microarchitectural Structures during Transient Execution. An authenticated attacker could     possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2024-28956)

    It was discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly handle prediction calculations. An     authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2024-43420,     CVE-2024-45332, CVE-2025-20623)

    It was discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly initialize resources in the branch     prediction unit. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
    (CVE-2025-20012, CVE-2025-24495)

    Michal Raviv and Jeff Gilbert discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly handle resources     and exceptions in the core management mechanism. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-20054, CVE-2025-20103)

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 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 : Intel Microcode vulnerabilities (USN-7535-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237338

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