The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7940-1 advisory.

    Jean-Claude Graf, Sandro Regge, Ali Hajiabadi, and Kaveh Razavi discovered that the Linux kernel     contained insufficient branch predictor isolation between a guest and a userspace hypervisor for certain     processors. This flaw is known as VMSCAPE. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to expose     sensitive information from the host OS. (CVE-2025-40300)

    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;

    - PowerPC architecture;

    - x86 architecture;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - ACPI drivers;

    - Ublk userspace block driver;

    - Clock framework and drivers;

    - EDAC drivers;

    - GPU drivers;

    - HSI subsystem;

    - IIO subsystem;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - Media drivers;

    - MemoryStick subsystem;

    - Network drivers;

    - NTB driver;

    - PCI subsystem;

    - Remote Processor subsystem;

    - Thermal drivers;

    - Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem;

    - 9P distributed file system;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - JFS file system;

    - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - Memory management;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - RDMA verbs API;

    - Kernel fork() syscall;

    - Timer subsystem;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - Watch queue notification mechanism;

    - Appletalk network protocol;

    - Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) subsystem;

    - Networking core;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - Netfilter;

    - Network traffic control;

    - SCTP protocol;

    - TLS protocol;

    - SoC Audio for Freescale CPUs drivers; (CVE-2023-53034, CVE-2024-58092, CVE-2025-21729, CVE-2025-22018,     CVE-2025-22019, CVE-2025-22020, CVE-2025-22021, CVE-2025-22025, CVE-2025-22027, CVE-2025-22028,     CVE-2025-22033, CVE-2025-22035, CVE-2025-22036, CVE-2025-22038, CVE-2025-22039, CVE-2025-22040,     CVE-2025-22041, CVE-2025-22042, CVE-2025-22044, CVE-2025-22045, CVE-2025-22047, CVE-2025-22050,     CVE-2025-22053, CVE-2025-22054, CVE-2025-22055, CVE-2025-22056, CVE-2025-22057, CVE-2025-22058,     CVE-2025-22060, CVE-2025-22062, CVE-2025-22063, CVE-2025-22064, CVE-2025-22065, CVE-2025-22066,     CVE-2025-22068, CVE-2025-22070, CVE-2025-22071, CVE-2025-22072, CVE-2025-22073, CVE-2025-22075,     CVE-2025-22079, CVE-2025-22080, CVE-2025-22081, CVE-2025-22083, CVE-2025-22086, CVE-2025-22089,     CVE-2025-22090, CVE-2025-22095, CVE-2025-22097, CVE-2025-23136, CVE-2025-23138, CVE-2025-37838,     CVE-2025-37937, CVE-2025-37958, CVE-2025-38118, CVE-2025-38152, CVE-2025-38227, CVE-2025-38240,     CVE-2025-38352, CVE-2025-38575, CVE-2025-38616, CVE-2025-38637, CVE-2025-38666, CVE-2025-38678,     CVE-2025-39682, CVE-2025-39728, CVE-2025-39735, CVE-2025-39964, CVE-2025-39993, CVE-2025-40018,     CVE-2025-40114, CVE-2025-40157)

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 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities (USN-7940-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 279273

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