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-8033-1 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:

    - Nios II architecture;

    - Sun Sparc architecture;

    - User-Mode Linux (UML);

    - x86 architecture;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - Drivers core;

    - Bus devices;

    - Hardware random number generator core;

    - Data acquisition framework and drivers;

    - CPU frequency scaling framework;

    - DMA engine subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - HW tracing;

    - Input Device (Miscellaneous) drivers;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - Media drivers;

    - MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) drivers;

    - MTD block device drivers;

    - Network drivers;

    - NVME drivers;

    - PCI subsystem;

    - Performance monitor drivers;

    - Pin controllers subsystem;

    - x86 platform drivers;

    - PPS (Pulse Per Second) driver;

    - PWM drivers;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - Userspace I/O drivers;

    - USB Gadget drivers;

    - USB Host Controller drivers;

    - Framebuffer layer;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - padata parallel execution mechanism;

    - IP tunnels definitions;

    - Network sockets;

    - XFRM subsystem;

    - Control group (cgroup);

    - Padata parallel execution mechanism;

    - PID allocator;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - Memory management;

    - 9P file system network protocol;

    - Ethernet bridge;

    - Ceph Core library;

    - Networking core;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - RF switch subsystem;

    - SCTP protocol;

    - Unix domain sockets;

    - VMware vSockets driver;

    - Intel ASoC drivers;

    - USB sound devices; (CVE-2024-53114, CVE-2024-56538, CVE-2024-58011, CVE-2025-21861, CVE-2025-22058,     CVE-2025-23143, CVE-2025-38236, CVE-2025-38248, CVE-2025-38584, CVE-2025-39869, CVE-2025-39873,     CVE-2025-39876, CVE-2025-39880, CVE-2025-39883, CVE-2025-39885, CVE-2025-39907, CVE-2025-39911,     CVE-2025-39913, CVE-2025-39923, CVE-2025-39934, CVE-2025-39937, CVE-2025-39943, CVE-2025-39945,     CVE-2025-39949, CVE-2025-39951, CVE-2025-39953, CVE-2025-39955, CVE-2025-39967, CVE-2025-39968,     CVE-2025-39969, CVE-2025-39970, CVE-2025-39971, CVE-2025-39972, CVE-2025-39973, CVE-2025-39980,     CVE-2025-39985, CVE-2025-39986, CVE-2025-39987, CVE-2025-39988, CVE-2025-39994, CVE-2025-39995,     CVE-2025-39996, CVE-2025-39998, CVE-2025-40001, CVE-2025-40006, CVE-2025-40011, CVE-2025-40020,     CVE-2025-40021, CVE-2025-40026, CVE-2025-40027, CVE-2025-40029, CVE-2025-40030, CVE-2025-40035,     CVE-2025-40042, CVE-2025-40043, CVE-2025-40044, CVE-2025-40048, CVE-2025-40049, CVE-2025-40053,     CVE-2025-40055, CVE-2025-40060, CVE-2025-40068, CVE-2025-40070, CVE-2025-40078, CVE-2025-40081,     CVE-2025-40085, CVE-2025-40087, CVE-2025-40088, CVE-2025-40092, CVE-2025-40094, CVE-2025-40105,     CVE-2025-40106, CVE-2025-40109, CVE-2025-40111, CVE-2025-40112, CVE-2025-40115, CVE-2025-40116,     CVE-2025-40118, CVE-2025-40120, CVE-2025-40121, CVE-2025-40124, CVE-2025-40125, CVE-2025-40126,     CVE-2025-40127, CVE-2025-40134, CVE-2025-40140, CVE-2025-40153, CVE-2025-40154, CVE-2025-40167,     CVE-2025-40171, CVE-2025-40173, CVE-2025-40178, CVE-2025-40179, CVE-2025-40183, CVE-2025-40187,     CVE-2025-40188, CVE-2025-40194, CVE-2025-40200, CVE-2025-40204, CVE-2025-40205, CVE-2025-40215,     CVE-2025-40219, CVE-2025-40220, CVE-2025-40223, CVE-2025-40231, CVE-2025-40233, CVE-2025-40240,     CVE-2025-40243, CVE-2025-40244, CVE-2025-40245, CVE-2025-40346, CVE-2025-40349, CVE-2025-40351,     CVE-2025-68249)

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-8033-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 298893

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Version 1.3 Jun 3, 2026, 10:45 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202606031045
Version 1.2 Mar 4, 2026, 3:45 PM CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2025-39955" to "CVE-2025-39967") Plugin Feed: 202603041545
Version 1.1 Feb 14, 2026, 1:12 AM New Plugin Feed: 202602140112