The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8297-1 advisory.

    Stonejiajia, Shir Tamari and Sagi Tzadik discovered that the OverlayFS implementation in the Ubuntu Linux     kernel did not properly perform permission checks in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly     use this to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-2640)

    Shir Tamari and Sagi Tzadik discovered that the OverlayFS implementation in the Ubuntu Linux kernel did     not properly perform permission checks in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to     gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-32629)

    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;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Drivers core;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - DMA engine subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - HID subsystem;

    - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers;

    - IIO ADC drivers;

    - IRQ chip drivers;

    - Modular ISDN driver;

    - LED subsystem;

    - UACCE accelerator framework;

    - Ethernet bonding driver;

    - Network drivers;

    - STMicroelectronics network drivers;

    - Ethernet team driver;

    - NVME drivers;

    - PHY drivers;

    - SLIMbus drivers;

    - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver;

    - Xen hypervisor drivers;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - Network file system (NFS) client;

    - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - IRQ subsystem;

    - Memory management;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - CAN network layer;

    - Networking core;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - L2TP protocol;

    - NET/ROM layer;

    - Network traffic control;

    - SCTP protocol;

    - TLS protocol;

    - XFRM subsystem;

    - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver;

    - USB sound devices; (CVE-2023-53421, CVE-2023-53520, CVE-2023-53662, CVE-2023-54207, CVE-2025-38057,     CVE-2025-38125, CVE-2025-38232, CVE-2025-38408, CVE-2025-38591, CVE-2025-40149, CVE-2025-40164,     CVE-2025-68211, CVE-2025-68340, CVE-2025-68365, CVE-2025-68725, CVE-2025-68817, CVE-2025-71162,     CVE-2025-71163, CVE-2025-71185, CVE-2025-71186, CVE-2025-71188, CVE-2025-71190, CVE-2025-71191,     CVE-2025-71194, CVE-2025-71196, CVE-2025-71197, CVE-2025-71199, CVE-2026-22997, CVE-2026-22998,     CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23001, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23011, CVE-2026-23026, CVE-2026-23033,     CVE-2026-23037, CVE-2026-23038, CVE-2026-23049, CVE-2026-23056, CVE-2026-23058, CVE-2026-23061,     CVE-2026-23063, CVE-2026-23064, 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-2026-23087,     CVE-2026-23089, CVE-2026-23090, CVE-2026-23091, CVE-2026-23093, CVE-2026-23095, CVE-2026-23096,     CVE-2026-23097, CVE-2026-23098, CVE-2026-23099, CVE-2026-23101, CVE-2026-23103, CVE-2026-23105,     CVE-2026-23108, CVE-2026-23112, CVE-2026-23119, CVE-2026-23120, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2026-23124,     CVE-2026-23125, CVE-2026-23128, CVE-2026-23133, CVE-2026-23145, CVE-2026-23146, CVE-2026-23150,     CVE-2026-23164, CVE-2026-23167, CVE-2026-23170, CVE-2026-23209)

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 : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-8297-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 316637

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Version 1.2 May 26, 2026, 6:39 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202605260639
Version 1.1 May 25, 2026, 10:30 PM New Plugin Feed: 202605252230