The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3099-1 advisory.

    Vladimr Bene discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive Offload (GRO)     processing implementations in the Linux kernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack     corruption, leading to a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-7039)

    Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free condition could occur in the TCP retransmit queue handling code     in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6828)

    Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the s390 SCLP console driver for the Linux kernel when     handling ioctl()s. A local attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.
    (CVE-2016-6130)

    Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the Adaptec AAC RAID controller driver in the Linux kernel     when handling ioctl()s. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2016-6480)

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 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3099-1)

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