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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7909-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277578

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-7909-1 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:

 - ARM32 architecture;

 - ARM64 architecture;

 - MIPS architecture;

 - PowerPC architecture;

 - RISC-V architecture;

 - S390 architecture;

 - x86 architecture;

 - Block layer subsystem;

 - ACPI drivers;

 - ATM drivers;

 - DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers;

 - Bus devices;

 - Clock framework and drivers;

 - Data acquisition framework and drivers;

 - Hardware crypto device drivers;

 - Device frequency scaling framework;

 - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework;

 - DMA engine subsystem;

 - ARM SCMI message protocol;

 - GPU drivers;

 - HID subsystem;

 - Hardware monitoring drivers;

 - I2C subsystem;

 - I3C subsystem;

 - IIO subsystem;

 - InfiniBand drivers;

 - Input Device core drivers;

 - IOMMU subsystem;

 - Media drivers;

 - Network drivers;

 - Mellanox network drivers;

 - PCI subsystem;

 - PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) bus subsystem;

 - PHY drivers;

 - Power supply drivers;

 - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;

 - SCSI subsystem;

 - ASPEED SoC drivers;

 - QCOM SoC drivers;

 - small TFT LCD display modules;

 - Trusted Execution Environment drivers;

 - TTY drivers;

 - UFS subsystem;

 - USB core drivers;

 - DesignWare USB3 driver;

 - USB Gadget drivers;

 - Framebuffer layer;

 - BTRFS file system;

 - File systems infrastructure;

 - EFI Variable file system;

 - Ext4 file system;

 - F2FS file system;

 - JFS file system;

 - Network file system (NFS) client;

 - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

 - NILFS2 file system;

 - NTFS3 file system;

 - SMB network file system;

 - Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) subsystem;

 - BPF subsystem;

 - NFS page cache wrapper;

 - Memory management;

 - Networking subsytem;

 - UDP network protocol;

 - Perf events;

 - RCU subsystem;

 - Tracing infrastructure;

 - 802.1Q VLAN protocol;

 - Appletalk network protocol;

 - Amateur Radio drivers;

 - B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;

 - Bluetooth subsystem;

 - Ethernet bridge;

 - Networking core;

 - HSR network protocol;

 - IPv4 networking;

 - IPv6 networking;

 - Multipath TCP;

 - Netfilter;

 - Network traffic control;

 - SCTP protocol;

 - TLS protocol;

 - Wireless networking;

 - SoC audio core drivers;

 - USB sound devices; (CVE-2022-50070, CVE-2022-50327, CVE-2023-52935, CVE-2023-53074, CVE-2024-50061, CVE-2024-53068, CVE-2025-37925, CVE-2025-37968, CVE-2025-38095, CVE-2025-38148, CVE-2025-38165, CVE-2025-38335, CVE-2025-38347, CVE-2025-38468, CVE-2025-38470, CVE-2025-38473, CVE-2025-38474, CVE-2025-38476, CVE-2025-38478, CVE-2025-38480, CVE-2025-38481, CVE-2025-38482, CVE-2025-38483, CVE-2025-38487, CVE-2025-38488, CVE-2025-38494, CVE-2025-38495, CVE-2025-38497, CVE-2025-38499, CVE-2025-38502, CVE-2025-38527, CVE-2025-38528, CVE-2025-38529, CVE-2025-38530, CVE-2025-38535, CVE-2025-38538, CVE-2025-38539, CVE-2025-38548, CVE-2025-38550, CVE-2025-38553, CVE-2025-38555, CVE-2025-38563, CVE-2025-38565, CVE-2025-38569, CVE-2025-38572, CVE-2025-38574, CVE-2025-38576, CVE-2025-38577, CVE-2025-38578, CVE-2025-38579, CVE-2025-38581, CVE-2025-38583, CVE-2025-38601, CVE-2025-38602, CVE-2025-38604, CVE-2025-38608, CVE-2025-38609, CVE-2025-38612, CVE-2025-38614, CVE-2025-38622, CVE-2025-38623, CVE-2025-38624, CVE-2025-38630, CVE-2025-38634, CVE-2025-38635, CVE-2025-38639, CVE-2025-38645, CVE-2025-38650, CVE-2025-38652, CVE-2025-38663, CVE-2025-38664, CVE-2025-38666, CVE-2025-38668, CVE-2025-38670, CVE-2025-38671, CVE-2025-38676, CVE-2025-38677, CVE-2025-38678, CVE-2025-38680, CVE-2025-38681, CVE-2025-38683, CVE-2025-38684, CVE-2025-38685, CVE-2025-38687, CVE-2025-38691, CVE-2025-38693, CVE-2025-38694, CVE-2025-38695, CVE-2025-38696, CVE-2025-38697, CVE-2025-38698, CVE-2025-38699, CVE-2025-38700, CVE-2025-38701, CVE-2025-38706, CVE-2025-38707, CVE-2025-38708, CVE-2025-38711, CVE-2025-38712, CVE-2025-38713, CVE-2025-38714, CVE-2025-38715, CVE-2025-38718, CVE-2025-38721, CVE-2025-38724, CVE-2025-38725, CVE-2025-38729, CVE-2025-38732, CVE-2025-39673, CVE-2025-39675, CVE-2025-39676, CVE-2025-39681, CVE-2025-39683, CVE-2025-39684, CVE-2025-39685, CVE-2025-39686, CVE-2025-39687, CVE-2025-39689, CVE-2025-39691, CVE-2025-39693, CVE-2025-39697, CVE-2025-39702, CVE-2025-39703, CVE-2025-39709, CVE-2025-39710, CVE-2025-39713, CVE-2025-39714, CVE-2025-39724, CVE-2025-39730, CVE-2025-39734, CVE-2025-39736, CVE-2025-39737, CVE-2025-39738, CVE-2025-39742, CVE-2025-39743, CVE-2025-39749, CVE-2025-39752, CVE-2025-39756, CVE-2025-39757, CVE-2025-39760, CVE-2025-39766, CVE-2025-39772, CVE-2025-39773, CVE-2025-39776, CVE-2025-39782, CVE-2025-39783, CVE-2025-39787, CVE-2025-39788, CVE-2025-39790, CVE-2025-39794, CVE-2025-39795, CVE-2025-39798, CVE-2025-39801, CVE-2025-39806, CVE-2025-39808, CVE-2025-39812, CVE-2025-39813, CVE-2025-39817, CVE-2025-39823, CVE-2025-39824, CVE-2025-39828, CVE-2025-39835, CVE-2025-39839, CVE-2025-39841, CVE-2025-39844, CVE-2025-39845, CVE-2025-39846, CVE-2025-39847, CVE-2025-39848, CVE-2025-39853, CVE-2025-39860, CVE-2025-39864, CVE-2025-39865, CVE-2025-39866, CVE-2025-39891, CVE-2025-39894, CVE-2025-39902, CVE-2025-39920)

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-7909-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277578

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7909-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/5/2025

Updated: 12/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53068

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-163-generic, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-163-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1092-intel-iotg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-163-generic-lpae, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1038-nvidia-tegra-igx-rt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1061-xilinx-zynqmp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-163-generic-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1094-oracle, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-163-lowlatency-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1038-nvidia-tegra-igx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1049-nvidia-tegra-rt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1097-aws-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1097-gcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1091-ibm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1049-nvidia-tegra, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.15.0-1097-aws

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-50070, CVE-2022-50327, CVE-2023-52935, CVE-2023-53074, CVE-2024-50061, CVE-2024-53068, CVE-2025-37925, CVE-2025-37968, CVE-2025-38095, CVE-2025-38148, CVE-2025-38165, CVE-2025-38335, CVE-2025-38347, CVE-2025-38468, CVE-2025-38470, CVE-2025-38473, CVE-2025-38474, CVE-2025-38476, CVE-2025-38478, CVE-2025-38480, CVE-2025-38481, CVE-2025-38482, CVE-2025-38483, CVE-2025-38487, CVE-2025-38488, CVE-2025-38494, CVE-2025-38495, CVE-2025-38497, CVE-2025-38499, CVE-2025-38502, CVE-2025-38527, CVE-2025-38528, CVE-2025-38529, CVE-2025-38530, CVE-2025-38535, CVE-2025-38538, CVE-2025-38539, CVE-2025-38548, CVE-2025-38550, CVE-2025-38553, CVE-2025-38555, CVE-2025-38563, CVE-2025-38565, CVE-2025-38569, CVE-2025-38572, CVE-2025-38574, CVE-2025-38576, CVE-2025-38577, CVE-2025-38578, CVE-2025-38579, CVE-2025-38581, CVE-2025-38583, CVE-2025-38601, CVE-2025-38602, CVE-2025-38604, CVE-2025-38608, CVE-2025-38609, CVE-2025-38612, CVE-2025-38614, CVE-2025-38622, CVE-2025-38623, CVE-2025-38624, CVE-2025-38630, CVE-2025-38634, CVE-2025-38635, CVE-2025-38639, CVE-2025-38645, CVE-2025-38650, CVE-2025-38652, CVE-2025-38663, CVE-2025-38664, CVE-2025-38666, CVE-2025-38668, CVE-2025-38670, CVE-2025-38671, CVE-2025-38676, CVE-2025-38677, CVE-2025-38678, CVE-2025-38680, CVE-2025-38681, CVE-2025-38683, CVE-2025-38684, CVE-2025-38685, CVE-2025-38687, CVE-2025-38691, CVE-2025-38693, CVE-2025-38694, CVE-2025-38695, CVE-2025-38696, CVE-2025-38697, CVE-2025-38698, CVE-2025-38699, CVE-2025-38700, CVE-2025-38701, CVE-2025-38706, CVE-2025-38707, CVE-2025-38708, CVE-2025-38711, CVE-2025-38712, CVE-2025-38713, CVE-2025-38714, CVE-2025-38715, CVE-2025-38718, CVE-2025-38721, CVE-2025-38724, CVE-2025-38725, CVE-2025-38729, CVE-2025-38732, CVE-2025-39673, CVE-2025-39675, CVE-2025-39676, CVE-2025-39681, CVE-2025-39683, CVE-2025-39684, CVE-2025-39685, CVE-2025-39686, CVE-2025-39687, CVE-2025-39689, CVE-2025-39691, CVE-2025-39693, CVE-2025-39697, CVE-2025-39702, CVE-2025-39703, CVE-2025-39709, CVE-2025-39710, CVE-2025-39713, CVE-2025-39714, CVE-2025-39724, CVE-2025-39730, CVE-2025-39734, CVE-2025-39736, CVE-2025-39737, CVE-2025-39738, CVE-2025-39742, CVE-2025-39743, CVE-2025-39749, CVE-2025-39752, CVE-2025-39756, CVE-2025-39757, CVE-2025-39760, CVE-2025-39766, CVE-2025-39772, CVE-2025-39773, CVE-2025-39776, CVE-2025-39782, CVE-2025-39783, CVE-2025-39787, CVE-2025-39788, CVE-2025-39790, CVE-2025-39794, CVE-2025-39795, CVE-2025-39798, CVE-2025-39801, CVE-2025-39806, CVE-2025-39808, CVE-2025-39812, CVE-2025-39813, CVE-2025-39817, CVE-2025-39823, CVE-2025-39824, CVE-2025-39828, CVE-2025-39835, CVE-2025-39839, CVE-2025-39841, CVE-2025-39844, CVE-2025-39845, CVE-2025-39846, CVE-2025-39847, CVE-2025-39848, CVE-2025-39853, CVE-2025-39860, CVE-2025-39864, CVE-2025-39865, CVE-2025-39866, CVE-2025-39891, CVE-2025-39894, CVE-2025-39902, CVE-2025-39920

USN: 7909-1