The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5092 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel through 5.15.2, mwifiex_usb_recv in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c allows     an attacker (who can connect a crafted USB device) to cause a denial of service (skb_over_panic).
    (CVE-2021-43976)

  - An issue was discovered in fs/nfs/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. If an application sets the     O_DIRECTORY flag, and tries to open a regular file, nfs_atomic_open() performs a regular lookup. If a     regular file is found, ENOTDIR should occur, but the server instead returns uninitialized data in the file     descriptor. (CVE-2022-24448)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. There is a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate in     drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c. (CVE-2022-24959)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The USB     Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests (ones with a large array     index and ones associated with NULL function pointer retrieval). Memory corruption might occur.
    (CVE-2022-25258)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The     RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. Attackers can obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory. (CVE-2022-25375)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0759-1 advisory.

    The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.


    Transient execution side-channel attacks attacking the Branch History Buffer (BHB),     named 'Branch Target Injection' and 'Intra-Mode Branch History Injection' are now mitigated.

    The following security bugs were fixed:

    - CVE-2022-0001: Fixed Branch History Injection vulnerability (bsc#1191580).
    - CVE-2022-0002: Fixed Intra-Mode Branch Target Injection vulnerability (bsc#1191580).
    - CVE-2022-0847: Fixed a vulnerability were a local attackers could overwrite data in arbitrary (read-     only) files (bsc#1196584).
    - CVE-2022-0617: Fixed a null pointer dereference in UDF file system functionality. A local user could     crash the system by triggering udf_file_write_iter() via a malicious UDF image. (bsc#1196079)
    - CVE-2022-0644: Fixed a denial of service by a local user. A assertion failure could be triggered in     kernel_read_file_from_fd() (bsc#1196155).
    - CVE-2021-44879: In gc_data_segment() in fs/f2fs/gc.c, special files were not considered, which lead to a     move_data_page NULL pointer dereference (bsc#1195987).
    - CVE-2022-24959: Fixed a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate() in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c (bsc#1195897).
    - CVE-2022-0487: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove() in     drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c (bsc#1194516).
    - CVE-2022-0492: Fixed a privilege escalation related to cgroups v1 release_agent feature, which allowed     bypassing namespace isolation unexpectedly (bsc#1195543).
    - CVE-2022-24448: Fixed an issue in fs/nfs/dir.c. If an application sets the O_DIRECTORY flag, and tries     to open a regular file, nfs_atomic_open() performs a regular lookup. If a regular file is found, ENOTDIR     should have occured, but the server instead returned uninitialized data in the file descriptor     (bsc#1195612).
    - CVE-2022-25375: The RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command.
    Attackers can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory (bsc#1196235).
    - CVE-2022-0516: Fixed missing check in ioctl related to KVM in s390 allows kernel memory read/write     (bsc#1195516).
    - CVE-2022-25258: The USB Gadget subsystem lacked certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests,     which could have lead to memory corruption (bsc#1196096).
    - CVE-2022-24958: drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c mishandled dev->buf release (bsc#1195905).


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0760-1 advisory.

  - Amazon Linux has been made aware of a potential Branch Target Injection (BTI) issue (sometimes referred to     as Spectre variant 2). This is a known cross-domain transient execution attack where a third party may     seek to cause a disclosure gadget to be speculatively executed after an indirect branch prediction.
    Generally, actors who attempt transient execution attacks do not have access to the data on the hosts they     attempt to access (e.g. where privilege-level isolation is in place). For such attacks to succeed, actors     need to be able to run code on the (virtual) machine hosting the data in which they are interested.
    (CVE-2022-0001, CVE-2022-0002, CVE-2022-0847)

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's cgroup_release_agent_write in the     kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups     v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.
    (CVE-2022-0492)

  - kernel: missing check in ioctl allows kernel memory read/write (CVE-2022-0516)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The     RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. Attackers can obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory. (CVE-2022-25375)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0763-1 advisory.

  - Non-transparent sharing of branch predictor selectors between contexts in some Intel(R) Processors may     allow an authorized user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-0001)

  - Non-transparent sharing of branch predictor within a context in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an     authorized user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-0002)

  - A flaw was found in the way the flags member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper     initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe and push_pipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus     contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cache     backed by read only files and as such escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-0847)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The     RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. Attackers can obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory. (CVE-2022-25375)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5540-1 advisory.

    Liu Jian discovered that the IGMP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition,     leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-20141)

    It was discovered that the USB gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate interface     descriptor requests. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2022-25258)

    It was discovered that the Remote NDIS (RNDIS) USB gadget implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. An attacker could possibly use this to expose     sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2022-25375)

    Arthur Mongodin discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform data     validation. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges in certain situations. (CVE-2022-34918)

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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The     RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. Attackers can obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory. (CVE-2022-25375)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5096 advisory.

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation,     denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2020-29374 Jann Horn of Google reported a flaw in Linux's     virtual memory management. A parent and child process initially share all their memory, but when either     writes to a shared page, the page is duplicated and unshared (copy-on-write). However, in case an     operation such as vmsplice() required the kernel to take an additional reference to a shared page, and a     copy-on-write occurs during this operation, the kernel might have accessed the wrong process's memory. For     some programs, this could lead to an information leak or data corruption. This issue was already fixed for     most architectures, but not on MIPS and System z. This update corrects that. CVE-2020-36322,     CVE-2021-28950 The syzbot tool found that the FUSE (filesystem-in-user-space) implementation did not     correctly handle a FUSE server returning invalid attributes for a file. A local user permitted to run a     FUSE server could use this to cause a denial of service (crash). The original fix for this introduced a     different potential denial of service (infinite loop in kernel space), which has also been fixed.
    CVE-2021-3640 Lin Ma discovered a race condiiton in the Bluetooth protocol implementation that can lead to     a use-after-free. A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or     crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. CVE-2021-3744, CVE-2021-3764 minihanshen reported bugs in the     ccp driver for AMD Cryptographic Coprocessors that could lead to a resource leak. On systems using this     driver, a local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2021-3752 Likang Luo of NSFOCUS     Security Team discovered a flaw in the Bluetooth L2CAP implementation that can lead to a user-after-free.
    A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for     privilege escalation. CVE-2021-3760, CVE-2021-4202 Lin Ma discovered race conditions in the NCI (NFC     Controller Interface) driver, which could lead to a use-after-free. A local user could exploit this to     cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. This driver     is not enabled in Debian's official kernel configurations. CVE-2021-3772 A flaw was found in the SCTP     protocol implementation, which would allow a networked attacker to break an SCTP association. The attacker     would only need to know or guess the IP addresses and ports for the association. CVE-2021-4002 It was     discovered that hugetlbfs, the virtual filesystem used by applications to allocate huge pages in RAM, did     not flush the CPU's TLB in one case where it was necessary. In some circumstances a local user would be     able to read and write huge pages after they are freed and reallocated to a different process. This could     lead to privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2021-4083 Jann Horn reported a     race condition in the local (Unix) sockets garbage collector, that can lead to use-after-free. A local     user could exploit this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for     privilege escalation. CVE-2021-4135 A flaw was found in the netdevsim driver which would lead to an     information leak. This driver is not enabled in Debian's official kernel configurations. CVE-2021-4155     Kirill Tkhai discovered a data leak in the way the XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for     a size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker can take advantage of this flaw to leak     data on the XFS filesystem. CVE-2021-4203 Jann Horn reported a race condition in the local (Unix) sockets     implementation that can lead to a use-after-free. A local user could exploit this to leak sensitive     information from the kernel. CVE-2021-20317 It was discovered that the timer queue structure could become     corrupt, leading to waiting tasks never being woken up. A local user with certain privileges could exploit     this to cause a denial of service (system hang). CVE-2021-20321 A race condition was discovered in the     overlayfs filesystem driver. A local user with access to an overlayfs mount and to its underlying upper     directory could exploit this for privilege escalation. CVE-2021-20322 An information leak was discovered     in the IPv4 implementation. A remote attacker could exploit this to quickly discover which UDP ports a     system is using, making it easier for them to carry out a DNS poisoning attack against that system.
    CVE-2021-22600 The syzbot tool found a flaw in the packet socket (AF_PACKET) implementation which could     lead to incorrectly freeing memory. A local user with CAP_NET_RAW capability (in any user namespace) could     exploit this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.
    CVE-2021-28711, CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713 (XSA-391) Juergen Gross reported that malicious PV backends     can cause a denial of service to guests being serviced by those backends via high frequency events, even     if those backends are running in a less privileged environment. CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715 (XSA-392)     Juergen Gross discovered that Xen guests can force the Linux netback driver to hog large amounts of kernel     memory, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2021-38300 Piotr Krysiuk discovered a flaw in the classic BPF     (cBPF) JIT compiler for MIPS architectures. A local user could exploit this to excute arbitrary code in     the kernel. This issue is mitigated by setting sysctl net.core.bpf_jit_enable=0, which is the default. It     is *not* mitigated by disabling unprivileged use of eBPF. CVE-2021-39685 Szymon Heidrich discovered a     buffer overflow vulnerability in the USB gadget subsystem, resulting in information disclosure, denial of     service or privilege escalation. CVE-2021-39686 A race condition was discovered in the Android binder     driver, that could lead to incorrect security checks. On systems where the binder driver is loaded, a     local user could exploit this for privilege escalation. CVE-2021-39698 Linus Torvalds reported a flaw in     the file polling implementation, which could lead to a use-after-free. A local user could exploit this for     denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. CVE-2021-39713 The     syzbot tool found a race condition in the network scheduling subsystem which could lead to a use-after-     free. A local user could exploit this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for     privilege escalation. CVE-2021-41864 An integer overflow was discovered in the Extended BPF (eBPF)     subsystem. A local user could exploit this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash), or possibly     for privilege escalation. This can be mitigated by setting sysctl kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=1,     which disables eBPF use by unprivileged users. CVE-2021-42739 A heap buffer overflow was discovered in the     firedtv driver for FireWire-connected DVB receivers. A local user with access to a firedtv device could     exploit this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash), or possibly for privilege escalation.
    CVE-2021-43389 The Active Defense Lab of Venustech discovered a flaw in the CMTP subsystem as used by     Bluetooth, which could lead to an out-of-bounds read and object type confusion. A local user with     CAP_NET_ADMIN capability in the initial user namespace could exploit this for denial of service (memory     corruption or crash), or possibly for privilege escalation. CVE-2021-43975 Brendan Dolan-Gavitt reported a     flaw in the hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc_wait() function in the aQuantia AQtion ethernet device driver which can     result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2021-43976 Zekun Shen and Brendan     Dolan-Gavitt discovered a flaw in the mwifiex_usb_recv() function of the Marvell WiFi-Ex USB Driver. An     attacker able to connect a crafted USB device can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of     service. CVE-2021-44733 A race condition was discovered in the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)     subsystem for Arm processors, which could lead to a use-after-free. A local user permitted to access a TEE     device could exploit this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege     escalation. CVE-2021-45095 It was discovered that the Phone Network protocol (PhoNet) driver has a     reference count leak in the pep_sock_accept() function. CVE-2021-45469 Wenqing Liu reported an out-of-     bounds memory access in the f2fs implementation if an inode has an invalid last xattr entry. An attacker     able to mount a specially crafted image can take advantage of this flaw for denial of service.
    CVE-2021-45480 A memory leak flaw was discovered in the __rds_conn_create() function in the RDS (Reliable     Datagram Sockets) protocol subsystem. CVE-2022-0001 (INTEL-SA-00598) Researchers at VUSec discovered that     the Branch History Buffer in Intel processors can be exploited to create information side channels with     speculative execution. This issue is similar to Spectre variant 2, but requires additional mitigations on     some processors. This can be exploited to obtain sensitive information from a different security context,     such as from user-space to the kernel, or from a KVM guest to the kernel. CVE-2022-0002 (INTEL-SA-00598)     This is a similar issue to CVE-2022-0001, but covers exploitation within a security context, such as from     JIT-compiled code in a sandbox to hosting code in the same process. This can be partly mitigated by     disabling eBPF for unprivileged users with the sysctl: kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=2. This update     does that by default. CVE-2022-0322 Eiichi Tsukata discovered a flaw in the sctp_make_strreset_req()     function in the SCTP network protocol implementation which can result in denial of service. CVE-2022-0330     Sushma Venkatesh Reddy discovered a missing GPU TLB flush in the i915 driver, resulting in denial of     service or privilege escalation. CVE-2022-0435 Samuel Page and Eric Dumazet reported a stack overflow in     the networking module for the Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol, resulting in denial     of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2022-0487 A use-after-free was discovered     in the MOXART SD/MMC Host Controller support driver. This flaw does not impact the Debian binary packages     as CONFIG_MMC_MOXART is not set. CVE-2022-0492 Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang reported that the cgroup-v1     subsystem does not properly restrict access to the release-agent feature. A local user can take advantage     of this flaw for privilege escalation and bypass of namespace isolation. CVE-2022-0617 butt3rflyh4ck     discovered a NULL pointer dereference in the UDF filesystem. A local user that can mount a specially     crafted UDF image can use this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2022-0644 Hao Sun reported a missing check     for file read permission in the finit_module() and kexec_file_load() system calls. The security impact of     this is unclear, since these system calls are usually only available to the root user. CVE-2022-22942 It     was discovered that wrong file file descriptor handling in the VMware Virtual GPU driver (vmwgfx) could     result in information leak or privilege escalation. CVE-2022-24448 Lyu Tao reported a flaw in the NFS     implementation in the Linux kernel when handling requests to open a directory on a regular file, which     could result in a information leak. CVE-2022-24959 A memory leak was discovered in the     yam_siocdevprivate() function of the YAM driver for AX.25, which could result in denial of service.
    CVE-2022-25258 Szymon Heidrich reported the USB Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS     descriptor requests, resulting in memory corruption. CVE-2022-25375 Szymon Heidrich reported that the     RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command, resulting in information leak     from kernel memory. For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version     4.19.232-1. This update additionally includes many more bug fixes from stable updates 4.19.209-4.19.232     inclusive. We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages. For the detailed security status of linux     please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/linux

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of kernel-generic installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.27 / 5.15.27_smp. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2022-067-01 advisory.

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove in drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c     in memstick in the Linux kernel. In this flaw, a local attacker with a user privilege may impact system     Confidentiality. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.14 rc1. (CVE-2022-0487)

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's cgroup_release_agent_write in the     kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups     v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.
    (CVE-2022-0492)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The USB     Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests (ones with a large array     index and ones associated with NULL function pointer retrieval). Memory corruption might occur.
    (CVE-2022-25258)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The     RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. Attackers can obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory. (CVE-2022-25375)

  - net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c in the Linux kernel 5.4 through 5.6.10 allows local users to gain privileges     because of a heap out-of-bounds write. This is related to nf_tables_offload. (CVE-2022-25636)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
158682	Debian DSA-5092-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	3/7/2022	3/27/2024	high
158753	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:0759-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/9/2022	6/3/2026	high
158777	openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2022:0760-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/10/2022	6/3/2026	high
159158	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:0763-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/22/2022	7/14/2023	high
163577	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5540-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	7/29/2022	8/27/2024	high
236670	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0125: cloud-kernel bugfix, enhancement and (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0125)	Nessus	Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks	5/14/2025	10/9/2026	high
224573	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-25375	Nessus	Misc.	3/5/2025	7/17/2026	medium
158761	Debian DSA-5096-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	3/9/2022	6/3/2026	high
158743	Slackware Linux 15.0 kernel-generic Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2022-067-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	3/9/2022	6/3/2026	high

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