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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7654-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 242343

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7654-1 advisory.

 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

 - PA-RISC architecture;

 - PowerPC architecture;

 - x86 architecture;

 - Block layer subsystem;

 - Cryptographic API;

 - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers;

 - Bluetooth drivers;

 - Bus devices;

 - CPU frequency scaling framework;

 - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework;

 - DMA engine subsystem;

 - ARM SCMI message protocol;

 - GPU drivers;

 - HID subsystem;

 - HSI subsystem;

 - I2C subsystem;

 - I3C subsystem;

 - IIO subsystem;

 - InfiniBand drivers;

 - IOMMU subsystem;

 - IRQ chip drivers;

 - MCB driver;

 - Multiple devices driver;

 - Media drivers;

 - Multifunction device drivers;

 - PCI Endpoint Test driver;

 - MTD block device drivers;

 - Network drivers;

 - Device tree and open firmware driver;

 - PCI subsystem;

 - TI SCI PM domains driver;

 - PWM drivers;

 - S/390 drivers;

 - SCSI subsystem;

 - Samsung SoC drivers;

 - TCM subsystem;

 - UFS subsystem;

 - Cadence USB3 driver;

 - ChipIdea USB driver;

 - USB Device Class drivers;

 - DesignWare USB3 driver;

 - USB Gadget drivers;

 - USB Type-C support driver;

 - USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;

 - Backlight driver;

 - Framebuffer layer;

 - Xen hypervisor drivers;

 - BTRFS file system;

 - Ext4 file system;

 - F2FS file system;

 - File systems infrastructure;

 - JFS file system;

 - Network file system (NFS) client;

 - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

 - Proc file system;

 - SMB network file system;

 - Kernel stack handling interfaces;

 - Bluetooth subsystem;

 - Network traffic control;

 - SCTP protocol;

 - BPF subsystem;

 - Kernel command line parsing driver;

 - Tracing infrastructure;

 - Memory management;

 - 802.1Q VLAN protocol;

 - Networking core;

 - IPv6 networking;

 - MAC80211 subsystem;

 - Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP);

 - Multipath TCP;

 - Netfilter;

 - Open vSwitch;

 - Phonet protocol;

 - TIPC protocol;

 - TLS protocol;

 - Virtio sound driver;

 - CPU Power monitoring subsystem; (CVE-2025-37790, CVE-2025-37871, CVE-2025-23147, CVE-2025-37803, CVE-2025-37909, CVE-2025-37840, CVE-2025-37989, CVE-2025-37927, CVE-2024-50280, CVE-2024-50272, CVE-2025-37850, CVE-2024-35866, CVE-2025-22027, CVE-2025-37812, CVE-2025-21853, CVE-2025-37810, CVE-2025-37766, CVE-2024-54458, CVE-2022-21546, CVE-2025-37757, CVE-2025-37839, CVE-2024-38540, CVE-2025-37990, CVE-2025-37794, CVE-2024-53203, CVE-2025-37964, CVE-2025-37819, CVE-2024-50125, CVE-2024-53128, CVE-2022-48893, CVE-2023-52572, CVE-2024-42322, CVE-2024-35943, CVE-2025-37740, CVE-2025-37739, CVE-2025-37838, CVE-2025-37995, CVE-2025-37789, CVE-2024-50258, CVE-2025-37970, CVE-2025-38024, CVE-2025-23146, CVE-2025-37780, CVE-2022-49168, CVE-2025-23145, CVE-2024-46774, CVE-2022-49063, CVE-2025-37742, CVE-2025-37940, CVE-2025-37781, CVE-2025-37796, CVE-2025-23159, CVE-2025-23144, CVE-2025-37875, CVE-2024-49989, CVE-2025-37867, CVE-2025-37892, CVE-2025-37913, CVE-2024-38541, CVE-2025-37983, CVE-2025-37923, CVE-2025-37836, CVE-2025-23151, CVE-2025-37765, CVE-2025-37817, CVE-2025-37991, CVE-2025-38009, CVE-2025-37858, CVE-2025-37841, CVE-2025-37771, CVE-2025-22062, CVE-2025-37912, CVE-2025-23156, CVE-2022-49535, CVE-2025-37829, CVE-2025-37851, CVE-2024-46816, CVE-2025-37998, CVE-2025-38023, CVE-2024-56751, CVE-2025-37844, CVE-2025-37967, CVE-2025-37930, CVE-2025-37994, CVE-2025-37805, CVE-2024-46742, CVE-2025-37883, CVE-2025-21839, CVE-2025-37823, CVE-2025-23157, CVE-2025-37787, CVE-2025-38094, CVE-2024-26686, CVE-2024-26739, CVE-2025-23142, CVE-2025-23163, CVE-2025-37915, CVE-2025-37885, CVE-2024-27402, CVE-2025-37749, CVE-2025-37738, CVE-2025-37905, CVE-2025-37773, CVE-2025-23140, CVE-2025-37792, CVE-2025-37808, CVE-2024-49960, CVE-2025-37857, CVE-2025-23158, CVE-2025-37824, CVE-2023-52757, CVE-2025-37767, CVE-2025-37758, CVE-2025-37914, CVE-2025-23161, CVE-2025-37741, CVE-2024-35867, CVE-2025-37911, CVE-2025-37859, CVE-2025-37830, CVE-2025-37982, CVE-2024-46751, CVE-2025-37985, CVE-2025-37756, CVE-2025-37768, CVE-2025-37811, CVE-2025-37992, CVE-2025-37862, CVE-2025-38005, CVE-2024-36908, CVE-2025-23150, CVE-2025-37949, CVE-2025-37788, CVE-2025-37881, CVE-2025-37770, CVE-2025-37797, CVE-2025-23148, CVE-2024-35790, CVE-2025-37969)

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-7654-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 242343

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7654-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2025

Updated: 7/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-37803

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1041-nvidia-tegra-rt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1085-oracle, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1088-aws, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1030-nvidia-tegra-igx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1082-nvidia, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1082-nvidia-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1041-nvidia-tegra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-144-lowlatency-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1030-nvidia-tegra-igx-rt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1085-gke, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1080-ibm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1088-aws-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-144-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1087-gcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1070-gkeop, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-144-generic-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-144-generic-lpae, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-144-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1083-intel-iotg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21546, CVE-2022-48893, CVE-2022-49063, CVE-2022-49168, CVE-2022-49535, CVE-2023-52572, CVE-2023-52757, CVE-2024-26686, CVE-2024-26739, CVE-2024-27402, CVE-2024-35790, CVE-2024-35866, CVE-2024-35867, CVE-2024-35943, CVE-2024-36908, CVE-2024-38540, CVE-2024-38541, CVE-2024-42322, CVE-2024-46742, CVE-2024-46751, CVE-2024-46774, CVE-2024-46816, CVE-2024-49960, CVE-2024-49989, CVE-2024-50125, CVE-2024-50258, CVE-2024-50272, CVE-2024-50280, CVE-2024-53128, CVE-2024-53203, CVE-2024-54458, CVE-2024-56751, CVE-2025-21839, CVE-2025-21853, CVE-2025-22027, CVE-2025-22062, CVE-2025-23140, CVE-2025-23142, CVE-2025-23144, CVE-2025-23145, CVE-2025-23146, CVE-2025-23147, CVE-2025-23148, CVE-2025-23150, CVE-2025-23151, CVE-2025-23156, CVE-2025-23157, CVE-2025-23158, CVE-2025-23159, CVE-2025-23161, CVE-2025-23163, CVE-2025-37738, CVE-2025-37739, CVE-2025-37740, CVE-2025-37741, CVE-2025-37742, CVE-2025-37749, CVE-2025-37756, CVE-2025-37757, CVE-2025-37758, CVE-2025-37765, CVE-2025-37766, CVE-2025-37767, CVE-2025-37768, CVE-2025-37770, CVE-2025-37771, CVE-2025-37773, CVE-2025-37780, CVE-2025-37781, CVE-2025-37787, CVE-2025-37788, CVE-2025-37789, CVE-2025-37790, CVE-2025-37792, CVE-2025-37794, CVE-2025-37796, CVE-2025-37797, CVE-2025-37803, CVE-2025-37805, CVE-2025-37808, CVE-2025-37810, CVE-2025-37811, CVE-2025-37812, CVE-2025-37817, CVE-2025-37819, CVE-2025-37823, CVE-2025-37824, CVE-2025-37829, CVE-2025-37830, CVE-2025-37836, CVE-2025-37838, CVE-2025-37839, CVE-2025-37840, CVE-2025-37841, CVE-2025-37844, CVE-2025-37850, CVE-2025-37851, CVE-2025-37857, CVE-2025-37858, CVE-2025-37859, CVE-2025-37862, CVE-2025-37867, CVE-2025-37871, CVE-2025-37875, CVE-2025-37881, CVE-2025-37883, CVE-2025-37885, CVE-2025-37892, CVE-2025-37905, CVE-2025-37909, CVE-2025-37911, CVE-2025-37912, CVE-2025-37913, CVE-2025-37914, CVE-2025-37915, CVE-2025-37923, CVE-2025-37927, CVE-2025-37930, CVE-2025-37940, CVE-2025-37949, CVE-2025-37964, CVE-2025-37967, CVE-2025-37969, CVE-2025-37970, CVE-2025-37982, CVE-2025-37983, CVE-2025-37985, CVE-2025-37989, CVE-2025-37990, CVE-2025-37991, CVE-2025-37992, CVE-2025-37994, CVE-2025-37995, CVE-2025-37998, CVE-2025-38005, CVE-2025-38009, CVE-2025-38023, CVE-2025-38024, CVE-2025-38094

USN: 7654-1