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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities (USN-8669-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 340678

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8669-1 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:

 - Foo-over-UDP (FOU);

 - ARM64 architecture;

 - x86 architecture;

 - Block layer subsystem;

 - Drivers core;

 - Null block device driver;

 - Bluetooth drivers;

 - Counter interface drivers;

 - DMA engine subsystem;

 - DPLL subsystem;

 - GPIO subsystem;

 - GPU drivers;

 - I2C subsystem;

 - IIO ADC drivers;

 - IIO subsystem;

 - InfiniBand drivers;

 - On-Chip Interconnect management framework;

 - IOMMU subsystem;

 - IRQ chip drivers;

 - Modular ISDN driver;

 - LED subsystem;

 - Multiple devices driver;

 - Media drivers;

 - UACCE accelerator framework;

 - MMC subsystem;

 - Ethernet bonding driver;

 - Network drivers;

 - Mellanox network drivers;

 - Texas Instruments network drivers;

 - NVME drivers;

 - Device tree and open firmware driver;

 - PHY drivers;

 - x86 platform drivers;

 - i.MX PM domains;

 - SCSI subsystem;

 - SLIMbus drivers;

 - SPI subsystem;

 - TTY drivers;

 - USB Host Controller drivers;

 - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver;

 - Xen hypervisor drivers;

 - BTRFS file system;

 - EFI Variable file system;

 - File systems infrastructure;

 - Ext4 file system;

 - FUSE (File system in Userspace);

 - Network file systems library;

 - Network file system (NFS) client;

 - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

 - SMB network file system;

 - Memory Management;

 - Memory management;

 - Scheduler infrastructure;

 - Tracing infrastructure;

 - IPv4 networking;

 - Netfilter;

 - NFC subsystem;

 - Network traffic control;

 - TCP network protocol;

 - io_uring subsystem;

 - Perf events;

 - Locking primitives;

 - Hibernation control;

 - Timer subsystem;

 - BPF subsystem;

 - Floating proportions library;

 - Bluetooth subsystem;

 - CAN network layer;

 - Ceph Core library;

 - Networking core;

 - IPv6 networking;

 - L2TP protocol;

 - MAC80211 subsystem;

 - Multipath TCP;

 - NET/ROM layer;

 - RxRPC session sockets;

 - SCTP protocol;

 - SMC sockets;

 - VMware vSockets driver;

 - Wireless networking;

 - ALSA AC97 driver;

 - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver;

 - Texas InstrumentS Audio (ASoC/HDA) drivers;

 - USB sound devices; (CVE-2025-71158, CVE-2025-71160, CVE-2025-71161, 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-2025-71187, 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-2025-71201, CVE-2026-22976, CVE-2026-22977, CVE-2026-22978, CVE-2026-22979, CVE-2026-22980, CVE-2026-22981, CVE-2026-22982, CVE-2026-22985, CVE-2026-22986, CVE-2026-22987, CVE-2026-22989, CVE-2026-22990, CVE-2026-22991, CVE-2026-22992, CVE-2026-22993, CVE-2026-22994, CVE-2026-22996, CVE-2026-22997, CVE-2026-22998, CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23000, CVE-2026-23001, CVE-2026-23002, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23004, CVE-2026-23005, CVE-2026-23006, CVE-2026-23007, CVE-2026-23008, CVE-2026-23009, CVE-2026-23010, CVE-2026-23011, CVE-2026-23012, CVE-2026-23013, CVE-2026-23014, CVE-2026-23015, CVE-2026-23017, CVE-2026-23018, CVE-2026-23019, CVE-2026-23020, CVE-2026-23021, CVE-2026-23022, CVE-2026-23023, CVE-2026-23024, CVE-2026-23025, CVE-2026-23026, CVE-2026-23030, CVE-2026-23031, CVE-2026-23032, CVE-2026-23033, CVE-2026-23034, CVE-2026-23035, CVE-2026-23036, CVE-2026-23037, CVE-2026-23038, CVE-2026-23042, CVE-2026-23044, CVE-2026-23045, CVE-2026-23046, CVE-2026-23047, CVE-2026-23049, CVE-2026-23050, CVE-2026-23051, CVE-2026-23052, CVE-2026-23053, CVE-2026-23054, CVE-2026-23055, 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-2026-23066, CVE-2026-23067, CVE-2026-23068, CVE-2026-23069, CVE-2026-23070, CVE-2026-23071, CVE-2026-23072, CVE-2026-23073, CVE-2026-23075, CVE-2026-23076, CVE-2026-23077, CVE-2026-23078, CVE-2026-23079, CVE-2026-23080, CVE-2026-23081, 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-2026-23092, CVE-2026-23093, CVE-2026-23094, CVE-2026-23095, CVE-2026-23096, CVE-2026-23097, CVE-2026-23098, CVE-2026-23099, CVE-2026-23100, CVE-2026-23101, CVE-2026-23102, CVE-2026-23103, CVE-2026-23104, CVE-2026-23105, CVE-2026-23106, CVE-2026-23107, CVE-2026-23108, CVE-2026-23109, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-23113, CVE-2026-23114, CVE-2026-23115, CVE-2026-23116, CVE-2026-23118, CVE-2026-23119, CVE-2026-23120, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2026-23122, CVE-2026-23123, CVE-2026-23124, CVE-2026-23125, CVE-2026-23126, CVE-2026-23128, CVE-2026-23129, CVE-2026-23130, CVE-2026-23131, CVE-2026-23133, CVE-2026-23135, CVE-2026-23136, CVE-2026-23137, CVE-2026-23138, CVE-2026-23139, CVE-2026-23140, CVE-2026-23141, CVE-2026-23142, CVE-2026-23143, CVE-2026-23144, CVE-2026-23145, CVE-2026-23146, CVE-2026-23147, CVE-2026-23148, CVE-2026-23150, CVE-2026-23151, CVE-2026-23152, CVE-2026-23154, CVE-2026-23156, CVE-2026-23157, CVE-2026-23158, CVE-2026-23159, CVE-2026-23160, CVE-2026-23161, CVE-2026-23162, CVE-2026-23163, CVE-2026-23164, CVE-2026-23165, CVE-2026-23166, CVE-2026-23167, CVE-2026-23168, CVE-2026-23169, CVE-2026-23170, CVE-2026-23171, CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-23173, CVE-2026-23212, CVE-2026-31405, CVE-2026-31414, CVE-2026-31444, CVE-2026-31501, CVE-2026-31589, CVE-2026-31633, CVE-2026-31636, CVE-2026-31705, CVE-2026-43198, CVE-2026-43379, CVE-2026-43465, CVE-2026-43499, CVE-2026-46113, CVE-2026-46137, CVE-2026-46242, CVE-2026-46290, CVE-2026-46317, CVE-2026-46331, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-52989, CVE-2026-53086, CVE-2026-53131, CVE-2026-53176, CVE-2026-53212, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53228, CVE-2026-53277, CVE-2026-53359)

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-8669-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 340678

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8669-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/26/2026

Updated: 8/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

Percentile: 99.86

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-2026-23171

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pro:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.17.0-1031.31-nvidia-64k, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-6.17.0-1031.31-nvidia

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: 8/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-71158, CVE-2025-71160, CVE-2025-71161, 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-2025-71187, 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-2025-71201, CVE-2026-22976, CVE-2026-22977, CVE-2026-22978, CVE-2026-22979, CVE-2026-22980, CVE-2026-22981, CVE-2026-22982, CVE-2026-22985, CVE-2026-22986, CVE-2026-22987, CVE-2026-22989, CVE-2026-22990, CVE-2026-22991, CVE-2026-22992, CVE-2026-22993, CVE-2026-22994, CVE-2026-22996, CVE-2026-22997, CVE-2026-22998, CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23000, CVE-2026-23001, CVE-2026-23002, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23004, CVE-2026-23005, CVE-2026-23006, CVE-2026-23007, CVE-2026-23008, CVE-2026-23009, CVE-2026-23010, CVE-2026-23011, CVE-2026-23012, CVE-2026-23013, CVE-2026-23014, CVE-2026-23015, CVE-2026-23017, CVE-2026-23018, CVE-2026-23019, CVE-2026-23020, CVE-2026-23021, CVE-2026-23022, CVE-2026-23023, CVE-2026-23024, CVE-2026-23025, CVE-2026-23026, CVE-2026-23030, CVE-2026-23031, CVE-2026-23032, CVE-2026-23033, CVE-2026-23034, CVE-2026-23035, CVE-2026-23036, CVE-2026-23037, CVE-2026-23038, CVE-2026-23042, CVE-2026-23044, CVE-2026-23045, CVE-2026-23046, CVE-2026-23047, CVE-2026-23049, CVE-2026-23050, CVE-2026-23051, CVE-2026-23052, CVE-2026-23053, CVE-2026-23054, CVE-2026-23055, 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-2026-23066, CVE-2026-23067, CVE-2026-23068, CVE-2026-23069, CVE-2026-23070, CVE-2026-23071, CVE-2026-23072, CVE-2026-23073, CVE-2026-23075, CVE-2026-23076, CVE-2026-23077, CVE-2026-23078, CVE-2026-23079, CVE-2026-23080, CVE-2026-23081, 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-2026-23092, CVE-2026-23093, CVE-2026-23094, CVE-2026-23095, CVE-2026-23096, CVE-2026-23097, CVE-2026-23098, CVE-2026-23099, CVE-2026-23100, CVE-2026-23101, CVE-2026-23102, CVE-2026-23103, CVE-2026-23104, CVE-2026-23105, CVE-2026-23106, CVE-2026-23107, CVE-2026-23108, CVE-2026-23109, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-23113, CVE-2026-23114, CVE-2026-23115, CVE-2026-23116, CVE-2026-23118, CVE-2026-23119, CVE-2026-23120, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2026-23122, CVE-2026-23123, CVE-2026-23124, CVE-2026-23125, CVE-2026-23126, CVE-2026-23128, CVE-2026-23129, CVE-2026-23130, CVE-2026-23131, CVE-2026-23133, CVE-2026-23135, CVE-2026-23136, CVE-2026-23137, CVE-2026-23138, CVE-2026-23139, CVE-2026-23140, CVE-2026-23141, CVE-2026-23142, CVE-2026-23143, CVE-2026-23144, CVE-2026-23145, CVE-2026-23146, CVE-2026-23147, CVE-2026-23148, CVE-2026-23150, CVE-2026-23151, CVE-2026-23152, CVE-2026-23154, CVE-2026-23156, CVE-2026-23157, CVE-2026-23158, CVE-2026-23159, CVE-2026-23160, CVE-2026-23161, CVE-2026-23162, CVE-2026-23163, CVE-2026-23164, CVE-2026-23165, CVE-2026-23166, CVE-2026-23167, CVE-2026-23168, CVE-2026-23169, CVE-2026-23170, CVE-2026-23171, CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-23173, CVE-2026-23212, CVE-2026-31405, CVE-2026-31414, CVE-2026-31444, CVE-2026-31501, CVE-2026-31589, CVE-2026-31633, CVE-2026-31636, CVE-2026-31705, CVE-2026-43198, CVE-2026-43379, CVE-2026-43465, CVE-2026-43499, CVE-2026-46113, CVE-2026-46137, CVE-2026-46242, CVE-2026-46290, CVE-2026-46317, CVE-2026-46331, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-52989, CVE-2026-53086, CVE-2026-53131, CVE-2026-53176, CVE-2026-53212, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53228, CVE-2026-53277, CVE-2026-53359

USN: 8669-1