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.

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

high Nessus Plugin ID 277578

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Jun 3, 2026, 10:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202606031045
Version 1.2 Feb 26, 2026, 8:51 AM CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-53068" to "CVE-2025-39866") Plugin Feed: 202602260851
Version 1.1 Dec 5, 2025, 9:00 PM New Plugin Feed: 202512052100