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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8278-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 315738

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8278-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that the Linux kernel algif_aead module did not properly handle in-place cryptographic operations. This flaw is known as Copy Fail. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-31431)

 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;

 - x86 architecture;

 - Cryptographic API;

 - Compute Acceleration Framework;

 - Drivers core;

 - Null block device driver;

 - Ublk userspace block driver;

 - Bluetooth drivers;

 - Counter interface drivers;

 - DMA engine subsystem;

 - DPLL subsystem;

 - GPU drivers;

 - HID subsystem;

 - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers;

 - IIO ADC drivers;

 - IIO subsystem;

 - On-Chip Interconnect management framework;

 - IRQ chip drivers;

 - Modular ISDN driver;

 - LED subsystem;

 - Multiple devices driver;

 - UACCE accelerator framework;

 - MMC subsystem;

 - Ethernet bonding driver;

 - Network drivers;

 - Mellanox network drivers;

 - NVME drivers;

 - PHY drivers;

 - x86 platform drivers;

 - i.MX PM domains;

 - SCSI subsystem;

 - SLIMbus drivers;

 - SPI subsystem;

 - TCM subsystem;

 - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver;

 - Xen hypervisor drivers;

 - BTRFS file system;

 - EFI Variable file system;

 - exFAT file system;

 - Ext4 file system;

 - HFS+ file system;

 - Network file system (NFS) client;

 - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

 - NTFS3 file system;

 - SMB network file system;

 - Scheduler infrastructure;

 - Netfilter;

 - NFC subsystem;

 - Tracing infrastructure;

 - io_uring subsystem;

 - BPF subsystem;

 - Perf events;

 - Floating proportions library;

 - Memory management;

 - Bluetooth subsystem;

 - CAN network layer;

 - Ceph Core library;

 - Networking core;

 - IPv4 networking;

 - IPv6 networking;

 - L2TP protocol;

 - MAC80211 subsystem;

 - NET/ROM layer;

 - Packet sockets;

 - Network traffic control;

 - SCTP protocol;

 - TLS protocol;

 - Unix domain sockets;

 - VMware vSockets driver;

 - Wireless networking;

 - ALSA AC97 driver;

 - Generic PCM loopback sound driver;

 - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver;

 - AMD SoC Alsa drivers;

 - Texas InstrumentS Audio (ASoC/HDA) drivers;

 - USB sound devices;

 - KVM subsystem; (CVE-2024-50004, CVE-2024-58096, CVE-2024-58097, CVE-2025-37926, CVE-2025-38201, CVE-2025-38591, CVE-2025-40039, CVE-2025-40082, CVE-2025-40149, CVE-2025-68351, CVE-2025-68358, CVE-2025-68365, CVE-2025-68725, CVE-2025-68749, CVE-2025-68803, CVE-2025-68823, CVE-2025-71160, CVE-2025-71162, CVE-2025-71163, CVE-2025-71180, CVE-2025-71182, CVE-2025-71183, CVE-2025-71184, CVE-2025-71185, CVE-2025-71186, CVE-2025-71188, CVE-2025-71189, CVE-2025-71190, CVE-2025-71191, CVE-2025-71192, CVE-2025-71193, CVE-2025-71194, CVE-2025-71195, CVE-2025-71196, CVE-2025-71197, CVE-2025-71198, CVE-2025-71199, CVE-2025-71200, CVE-2025-71220, CVE-2025-71222, CVE-2025-71224, CVE-2025-71225, CVE-2025-71268, CVE-2026-22976, CVE-2026-22977, CVE-2026-22978, CVE-2026-22979, CVE-2026-22980, CVE-2026-22982, CVE-2026-22984, CVE-2026-22990, CVE-2026-22991, CVE-2026-22992, CVE-2026-22994, CVE-2026-22996, CVE-2026-22997, CVE-2026-22998, CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23000, CVE-2026-23001, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23005, CVE-2026-23006, CVE-2026-23010, CVE-2026-23011, CVE-2026-23019, CVE-2026-23020, CVE-2026-23021, CVE-2026-23025, CVE-2026-23026, CVE-2026-23030, CVE-2026-23031, CVE-2026-23032, CVE-2026-23033, CVE-2026-23035, CVE-2026-23037, CVE-2026-23038, CVE-2026-23047, CVE-2026-23049, CVE-2026-23050, CVE-2026-23053, CVE-2026-23054, CVE-2026-23056, CVE-2026-23057, CVE-2026-23058, CVE-2026-23059, CVE-2026-23061, CVE-2026-23062, CVE-2026-23063, CVE-2026-23064, CVE-2026-23065, CVE-2026-23068, CVE-2026-23069, CVE-2026-23071, CVE-2026-23073, CVE-2026-23075, CVE-2026-23076, CVE-2026-23078, CVE-2026-23080, CVE-2026-23083, CVE-2026-23084, CVE-2026-23085, CVE-2026-23086, CVE-2026-23087, CVE-2026-23088, CVE-2026-23089, CVE-2026-23090, CVE-2026-23091, CVE-2026-23093, CVE-2026-23094, CVE-2026-23095, CVE-2026-23096, CVE-2026-23097, CVE-2026-23098, CVE-2026-23099, CVE-2026-23101, CVE-2026-23102, CVE-2026-23103, CVE-2026-23105, CVE-2026-23107, CVE-2026-23108, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-23113, CVE-2026-23116, CVE-2026-23119, CVE-2026-23120, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2026-23123, CVE-2026-23124, CVE-2026-23125, CVE-2026-23126, CVE-2026-23128, CVE-2026-23129, CVE-2026-23131, CVE-2026-23133, CVE-2026-23135, CVE-2026-23136, CVE-2026-23139, CVE-2026-23140, CVE-2026-23141, CVE-2026-23142, CVE-2026-23144, CVE-2026-23145, CVE-2026-23146, CVE-2026-23148, CVE-2026-23150, CVE-2026-23151, CVE-2026-23156, CVE-2026-23159, CVE-2026-23160, CVE-2026-23163, CVE-2026-23164, CVE-2026-23166, CVE-2026-23167, CVE-2026-23168, CVE-2026-23170, CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-23173, CVE-2026-23176, CVE-2026-23178, CVE-2026-23179, CVE-2026-23180, CVE-2026-23182, CVE-2026-23187, CVE-2026-23190, CVE-2026-23191, CVE-2026-23193, CVE-2026-23198, CVE-2026-23200, CVE-2026-23202, CVE-2026-23204, CVE-2026-23205, CVE-2026-23206, CVE-2026-23212, CVE-2026-23213, CVE-2026-23214, CVE-2026-23215, CVE-2026-23216, CVE-2026-23254, CVE-2026-23256, CVE-2026-23257, CVE-2026-23258, CVE-2026-23260, CVE-2026-23261, CVE-2026-23262, CVE-2026-23264, CVE-2026-23274, CVE-2026-23351, CVE-2026-23394, CVE-2026-31419, CVE-2026-31504, CVE-2026-31533, CVE-2026-43033, CVE-2026-43077, CVE-2026-43078)

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-8278-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 315738

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8278-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2026

Updated: 5/21/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-23216

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 8.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-31431

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1041-gkeop, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-117-lowlatency-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-2045-raspi-realtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-117-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1054-gke-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1058-gcp-fips, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1055-aws-fips, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.1-1051-realtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1056-raspi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1054-gke, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.8.0-1055-ibm

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: 5/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/15/2026

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Copy Fail AF_ALG + authencesn Page-Cache Write)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50004, CVE-2024-58096, CVE-2024-58097, CVE-2025-37926, CVE-2025-38201, CVE-2025-38591, CVE-2025-40039, CVE-2025-40082, CVE-2025-40149, CVE-2025-68351, CVE-2025-68358, CVE-2025-68365, CVE-2025-68725, CVE-2025-68749, CVE-2025-68803, CVE-2025-68823, CVE-2025-71160, CVE-2025-71162, CVE-2025-71163, CVE-2025-71180, CVE-2025-71182, CVE-2025-71183, CVE-2025-71184, CVE-2025-71185, CVE-2025-71186, CVE-2025-71188, CVE-2025-71189, CVE-2025-71190, CVE-2025-71191, CVE-2025-71192, CVE-2025-71193, CVE-2025-71194, CVE-2025-71195, CVE-2025-71196, CVE-2025-71197, CVE-2025-71198, CVE-2025-71199, CVE-2025-71200, CVE-2025-71220, CVE-2025-71222, CVE-2025-71224, CVE-2025-71225, CVE-2025-71268, CVE-2026-22976, CVE-2026-22977, CVE-2026-22978, CVE-2026-22979, CVE-2026-22980, CVE-2026-22982, CVE-2026-22984, CVE-2026-22990, CVE-2026-22991, CVE-2026-22992, CVE-2026-22994, CVE-2026-22996, CVE-2026-22997, CVE-2026-22998, CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23000, CVE-2026-23001, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23005, CVE-2026-23006, CVE-2026-23010, CVE-2026-23011, CVE-2026-23019, CVE-2026-23020, CVE-2026-23021, CVE-2026-23025, CVE-2026-23026, CVE-2026-23030, CVE-2026-23031, CVE-2026-23032, CVE-2026-23033, CVE-2026-23035, CVE-2026-23037, CVE-2026-23038, CVE-2026-23047, CVE-2026-23049, CVE-2026-23050, CVE-2026-23053, CVE-2026-23054, CVE-2026-23056, CVE-2026-23057, CVE-2026-23058, CVE-2026-23059, CVE-2026-23061, CVE-2026-23062, CVE-2026-23063, CVE-2026-23064, CVE-2026-23065, CVE-2026-23068, CVE-2026-23069, CVE-2026-23071, CVE-2026-23073, CVE-2026-23075, CVE-2026-23076, CVE-2026-23078, CVE-2026-23080, CVE-2026-23083, CVE-2026-23084, CVE-2026-23085, CVE-2026-23086, CVE-2026-23087, CVE-2026-23088, CVE-2026-23089, CVE-2026-23090, CVE-2026-23091, CVE-2026-23093, CVE-2026-23094, CVE-2026-23095, CVE-2026-23096, CVE-2026-23097, CVE-2026-23098, CVE-2026-23099, CVE-2026-23101, CVE-2026-23102, CVE-2026-23103, CVE-2026-23105, CVE-2026-23107, CVE-2026-23108, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-23113, CVE-2026-23116, CVE-2026-23119, CVE-2026-23120, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2026-23123, CVE-2026-23124, CVE-2026-23125, CVE-2026-23126, CVE-2026-23128, CVE-2026-23129, CVE-2026-23131, CVE-2026-23133, CVE-2026-23135, CVE-2026-23136, CVE-2026-23139, CVE-2026-23140, CVE-2026-23141, CVE-2026-23142, CVE-2026-23144, CVE-2026-23145, CVE-2026-23146, CVE-2026-23148, CVE-2026-23150, CVE-2026-23151, CVE-2026-23156, CVE-2026-23159, CVE-2026-23160, CVE-2026-23163, CVE-2026-23164, CVE-2026-23166, CVE-2026-23167, CVE-2026-23168, CVE-2026-23170, CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-23173, CVE-2026-23176, CVE-2026-23178, CVE-2026-23179, CVE-2026-23180, CVE-2026-23182, CVE-2026-23187, CVE-2026-23190, CVE-2026-23191, CVE-2026-23193, CVE-2026-23198, CVE-2026-23200, CVE-2026-23202, CVE-2026-23204, CVE-2026-23205, CVE-2026-23206, CVE-2026-23212, CVE-2026-23213, CVE-2026-23214, CVE-2026-23215, CVE-2026-23216, CVE-2026-23254, CVE-2026-23256, CVE-2026-23257, CVE-2026-23258, CVE-2026-23260, CVE-2026-23261, CVE-2026-23262, CVE-2026-23264, CVE-2026-23274, CVE-2026-23351, CVE-2026-23394, CVE-2026-31419, CVE-2026-31431, CVE-2026-31504, CVE-2026-31533, CVE-2026-43033, CVE-2026-43077, CVE-2026-43078

USN: 8278-1