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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : GVfs vulnerabilities (USN-8845-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 362461

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8845-1 advisory.

 Keith Linneman discovered that GVfs did not properly validate data received from SFTP servers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, resulting in arbitrary code execution or a denial of service. (CVE-2026-84268)

 It was discovered that GVfs incorrectly handled file ownership when creating private D-Bus sockets in the admin backend. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to change the ownership of arbitrary system files, resulting in privilege escalation to root. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-88924)

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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8845-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 362461

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8845-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.26

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-84268

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gvfs-backends, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gvfs-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gvfs-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gvfs-daemons, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gvfs-fuse, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gvfs-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gvfs

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-84268, CVE-2026-88924

USN: 8845-1