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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7699-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 252277

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7699-1 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:

 - ARM64 architecture;

 - RISC-V architecture;

 - x86 architecture;

 - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework;

 - DMA engine subsystem;

 - GPU drivers;

 - HID subsystem;

 - IIO ADC drivers;

 - IIO subsystem;

 - InfiniBand drivers;

 - Input Device core drivers;

 - Network drivers;

 - Mellanox network drivers;

 - PHY drivers;

 - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;

 - VideoCore services drivers;

 - USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;

 - Xen hypervisor drivers;

 - EROFS file system;

 - Network file system (NFS) client;

 - File systems infrastructure;

 - SMB network file system;

 - Network traffic control;

 - io_uring subsystem;

 - Kernel command line parsing driver;

 - Scheduler infrastructure;

 - Memory management;

 - Networking core;

 - MAC80211 subsystem;

 - Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP);

 - Netfilter;

 - Open vSwitch;

 - TLS protocol;

 - Wireless networking;

 - SOF drivers; (CVE-2025-38011, CVE-2025-38095, CVE-2025-37967, CVE-2025-38012, CVE-2025-38019, CVE-2025-37960, CVE-2025-37973, CVE-2025-37958, CVE-2025-38094, CVE-2025-37963, CVE-2025-37955, CVE-2025-38014, CVE-2025-38025, CVE-2025-37970, CVE-2025-37947, CVE-2025-37966, CVE-2025-37948, CVE-2025-38013, CVE-2025-37957, CVE-2025-38028, CVE-2025-37962, CVE-2025-38002, CVE-2025-37996, CVE-2025-37992, CVE-2025-37969, CVE-2025-38009, CVE-2025-38027, CVE-2025-38020, CVE-2025-38023, CVE-2025-38008, CVE-2025-38015, CVE-2025-37954, CVE-2025-38007, CVE-2025-38005, CVE-2025-37956, CVE-2025-37965, CVE-2025-37972, CVE-2025-38006, CVE-2025-37971, CVE-2025-38056, CVE-2025-37968, CVE-2025-38024, CVE-2025-37951, CVE-2025-38016, CVE-2025-38022, CVE-2025-37964, CVE-2025-37994, CVE-2025-37952, CVE-2025-37998, CVE-2025-37993, CVE-2025-38018, CVE-2025-38010, CVE-2025-37995, CVE-2025-38021, CVE-2025-37999, CVE-2025-37961, CVE-2025-37959, CVE-2025-37950, CVE-2025-37949)

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-7699-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 252277

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7699-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-38013

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-37958

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-1012-raspi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-1011-oracle-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-1011-oracle, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-1011-aws, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-1010-realtime, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-28-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-1014-gcp-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-1011-aws-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-1014-gcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.14.0-28-generic-64k

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-37947, CVE-2025-37948, CVE-2025-37949, CVE-2025-37950, CVE-2025-37951, CVE-2025-37952, CVE-2025-37954, CVE-2025-37955, CVE-2025-37956, CVE-2025-37957, CVE-2025-37958, CVE-2025-37959, CVE-2025-37960, CVE-2025-37961, CVE-2025-37962, CVE-2025-37963, CVE-2025-37964, CVE-2025-37965, CVE-2025-37966, CVE-2025-37967, CVE-2025-37968, CVE-2025-37969, CVE-2025-37970, CVE-2025-37971, CVE-2025-37972, CVE-2025-37973, CVE-2025-37992, CVE-2025-37993, CVE-2025-37994, CVE-2025-37995, CVE-2025-37996, CVE-2025-37998, CVE-2025-37999, CVE-2025-38002, CVE-2025-38005, CVE-2025-38006, CVE-2025-38007, CVE-2025-38008, CVE-2025-38009, CVE-2025-38010, CVE-2025-38011, CVE-2025-38012, CVE-2025-38013, CVE-2025-38014, CVE-2025-38015, CVE-2025-38016, CVE-2025-38018, CVE-2025-38019, CVE-2025-38020, CVE-2025-38021, CVE-2025-38022, CVE-2025-38023, CVE-2025-38024, CVE-2025-38025, CVE-2025-38027, CVE-2025-38028, CVE-2025-38056, CVE-2025-38094, CVE-2025-38095

USN: 7699-1