The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2379-1 advisory.

    Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A     physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. (CVE-2014-3181)

    Ben Hawkes reported some off by one errors for report descriptors in the Linux kernel's HID stack. A     physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write)     via a specially crafted device. (CVE-2014-3184)

    Several bounds check flaws allowing for buffer overflows were discovered in the Linux kernel's Whiteheat     USB serial driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service     (system crash) via a specially crafted device. (CVE-2014-3185)

    Steven Vittitoe reported a buffer overflow in the Linux kernel's PicoLCD HID device driver. A physically     proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code via a specially craft device. (CVE-2014-3186)

    A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's associative-array garbage collection implementation. A local     user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have other     unspecified impact by using keyctl operations. (CVE-2014-3631)

    A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's UDF filesystem (used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs) when processing     indirect ICBs. An attacker who can cause CD, DVD or image file with a specially crafted inode to be     mounted can cause a denial of service (infinite loop or stack consumption). (CVE-2014-6410)

    James Eckersall discovered a buffer overflow in the Ceph filesystem in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker     could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and panic) or possibly have other     unspecified impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket. (CVE-2014-6416)

    James Eckersall discovered a flaw in the handling of memory allocation failures in the Ceph filesystem. A     remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact. (CVE-2014-6417)

    James Eckersall discovered a flaw in how the Ceph filesystem validates auth replies. A remote attacker     could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have other unspecified     impact. (CVE-2014-6418)

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.

Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices.
(CVE-2014-3181)

Ben Hawkes reported some off by one errors for report descriptors in the Linux kernel's HID stack. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a specially crafted device. (CVE-2014-3184)

Several bounds check flaws allowing for buffer overflows were discovered in the Linux kernel's Whiteheat USB serial driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a specially crafted device.
(CVE-2014-3185)

Steven Vittitoe reported a buffer overflow in the Linux kernel's PicoLCD HID device driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially craft device.
(CVE-2014-3186)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's UDF filesystem (used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs) when processing indirect ICBs. An attacker who can cause CD, DVD or image file with a specially crafted inode to be mounted can cause a denial of service (infinite loop or stack consumption). (CVE-2014-6410)

James Eckersall discovered a buffer overflow in the Ceph filesystem in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and panic) or possibly have other unspecified impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket.
(CVE-2014-6416)

James Eckersall discovered a flaw in the handling of memory allocation failures in the Ceph filesystem. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2014-6417)

James Eckersall discovered a flaw in how the Ceph filesystem validates auth replies. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact. (CVE-2014-6418).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel :

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c (CVE-2014-3688=.

Buffer overflow in net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket (CVE-2014-6416).

net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly consider the possibility of kmalloc failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket (CVE-2014-6417).

net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly validate auth replies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data from the IP address of a Ceph Monitor (CVE-2014-6418).

The sctp_process_param function in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a malformed INIT chunk (CVE-2014-7841).

Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313 (CVE-2014-7842).

arch/x86/kernel/tls.c in the Thread Local Storage (TLS) implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 allows local users to bypass the espfix protection mechanism, and consequently makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism, via a crafted application that makes a set_thread_area system call and later reads a 16-bit value (CVE-2014-8133).

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ttusbdecfe_dvbs_diseqc_send_master_cmd function in drivers/media/usb/ttusb-dec/ttusbdecfe.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a large message length in an ioctl call (CVE-2014-8884).

The do_double_fault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS) segment register, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a modify_ldt system call, as demonstrated by sigreturn_32 in the linux-clock-tests test suite (CVE-2014-9090).

arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.5 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS) segment register, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an IRET instruction that leads to access to a GS Base address from the wrong space (CVE-2014-9322).

The __switch_to function in arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 does not ensure that Thread Local Storage (TLS) descriptors are loaded before proceeding with other steps, which makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application that reads a TLS base address (CVE-2014-9419).

The rock_continue function in fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 does not restrict the number of Rock Ridge continuation entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, and system crash or hang) via a crafted iso9660 image (CVE-2014-9420).

Race condition in the key_gc_unused_keys function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl commands that trigger access to a key structure member during garbage collection of a key (CVE-2014-9529).

The parse_rock_ridge_inode_internal function in fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not validate a length value in the Extensions Reference (ER) System Use Field, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted iso9660 image (CVE-2014-9584).

The vdso_addr function in arch/x86/vdso/vma.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.2 does not properly choose memory locations for the vDSO area, which makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism by guessing a location at the end of a PMD (CVE-2014-9585).

The updated packages provides a solution for these security issues.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002529 advisory.

    net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly validate auth     replies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via crafted data from the IP address of a Ceph Monitor.

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

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

Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices.
(CVE-2014-3181)

Ben Hawkes reported some off by one errors for report descriptors in the Linux kernel's HID stack. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a specially crafted device. (CVE-2014-3184)

Several bounds check flaws allowing for buffer overflows were discovered in the Linux kernel's Whiteheat USB serial driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a specially crafted device.
(CVE-2014-3185)

Steven Vittitoe reported a buffer overflow in the Linux kernel's PicoLCD HID device driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially craft device.
(CVE-2014-3186)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's associative-array garbage collection implementation. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact by using keyctl operations. (CVE-2014-3631)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's UDF filesystem (used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs) when processing indirect ICBs. An attacker who can cause CD, DVD or image file with a specially crafted inode to be mounted can cause a denial of service (infinite loop or stack consumption). (CVE-2014-6410)

James Eckersall discovered a buffer overflow in the Ceph filesystem in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and panic) or possibly have other unspecified impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket.
(CVE-2014-6416)

James Eckersall discovered a flaw in the handling of memory allocation failures in the Ceph filesystem. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2014-6417)

James Eckersall discovered a flaw in how the Ceph filesystem validates auth replies. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact. (CVE-2014-6418).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's mmap(2), madvise(2), and fallocate(2) system     calls interacted with each other while operating on     virtual memory file system files. A local user could     use this flaw to cause a denial of     service.(CVE-2014-4171)

  - An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)     implementation handled access of the user control's     state. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to     leak kernel memory to user space.(CVE-2014-4652)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)     implementation handled user controls. A local,     privileged user could use this flaw to crash the     system.(CVE-2014-4653)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)     implementation handled user controls. A local,     privileged user could use this flaw to crash the     system.(CVE-2014-4654)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)     implementation handled user controls. A local,     privileged user could use this flaw to crash the     system.(CVE-2014-4655)

  - An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)     implementation handled user controls. A local,     privileged user could use this flaw to crash the     system.(CVE-2014-4656)

  - An integer underflow flaw was found in the way the     Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol     (SCTP) implementation processed certain COOKIE_ECHO     packets. By sending a specially crafted SCTP packet, a     remote attacker could use this flaw to prevent     legitimate connections to a particular SCTP server     socket to be made.(CVE-2014-4667)

  - 'It was found that the Linux kernel's ptrace subsystem     allowed a traced process' instruction pointer to be set     to a non-canonical memory address without forcing the     non-sysret code path when returning to user space. A     local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash     the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges     on the system.

  - Note: The CVE-2014-4699 issue only affected systems     using an Intel CPU.(CVE-2014-4699)'

  - A flaw was found in the way the pppol2tp_setsockopt()     and pppol2tp_getsockopt() functions in the Linux     kernel's PPP over L2TP implementation handled requests     with a non-SOL_PPPOL2TP socket option level. A local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their     privileges on the system.(CVE-2014-4943)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's VFS     subsystem handled reference counting when performing     unmount operations on symbolic links. A local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to exhaust all     available memory on the system or, potentially, trigger     a use-after-free error, resulting in a system crash or     privilege escalation.(CVE-2014-5045)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way     the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol     (SCTP) implementation handled simultaneous connections     between the same hosts. A remote attacker could use     this flaw to crash the system.(CVE-2014-5077)

  - It was found that the parse_rock_ridge_inode_internal()     function of the Linux kernel's ISOFS implementation did     not correctly check relocated directories when     processing Rock Ridge child link (CL) tags. An attacker     with physical access to the system could use a     specially crafted ISO image to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2014-5471)

  - It was found that the parse_rock_ridge_inode_internal()     function of the Linux kernel's ISOFS implementation did     not correctly check relocated directories when     processing Rock Ridge child link (CL) tags. An attacker     with physical access to the system could use a     specially crafted ISO image to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2014-5472)

  - A stack overflow flaw caused by infinite recursion was     found in the way the Linux kernel's Universal Disk     Format (UDF) file system implementation processed     indirect Information Control Blocks (ICBs). An attacker     with physical access to the system could use a     specially crafted UDF image to crash the     system.(CVE-2014-6410)

  - Buffer overflow in net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used     in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (memory     corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a long unencrypted auth     ticket.(CVE-2014-6416)

  - net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel     before 3.16.3, does not properly consider the     possibility of kmalloc failure, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash)     or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long     unencrypted auth ticket.(CVE-2014-6417)

  - net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel     before 3.16.3, does not properly validate auth replies,     which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via crafted data from the IP address of a     Ceph Monitor.(CVE-2014-6418)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way     the Linux kernel's Common Internet File System (CIFS)     implementation handled mounting of file system shares.
    A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a client     system that would mount a file system share from a     malicious server.(CVE-2014-7145)

  - A denial of service flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's XFS file system implementation ordered     directory hashes under certain conditions. A local     attacker could use this flaw to corrupt the file system     by creating directories with colliding hash values,     potentially resulting in a system crash.(CVE-2014-7283)

  - An out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7825, was     found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux     kernel's perf subsystem. A local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to crash the system. Additionally,     an out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7826, was     found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux     kernel's ftrace subsystem. On a system with ftrace     syscall tracing enabled, a local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to crash the system, or escalate     their privileges.(CVE-2014-7825)

  - An out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7825, was     found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux     kernel's perf subsystem. A local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to crash the system. Additionally,     an out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7826, was     found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux     kernel's ftrace subsystem. On a system with ftrace     syscall tracing enabled, a local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to crash the system, or escalate     their privileges.(CVE-2014-7826)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-000845 advisory.

    net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly validate auth     replies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via crafted data from the IP address of a Ceph Monitor.

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

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

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The IPv6 DCCP implementation in the Linux kernel     mishandles inheritance, which allows local users to     cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified     other impact via crafted system calls, a related issue     to CVE-2017-8890. An unprivileged local user could use     this flaw to induce kernel memory corruption on the     system, leading to a crash. Due to the nature of the     flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out,     although we believe it is unlikely.(CVE-2017-9076i1/4%0

  - It was found that the driver_override implementation in     base/platform.c in the Linux kernel is susceptible to     race condition when different threads are reading vs     storing a different driver override.(CVE-2017-12146i1/4%0

  - The Linux Kernel imposes a size restriction on the     arguments and environmental strings passed through     RLIMIT_STACK/RLIMIT_INFINITY, but does not take the     argument and environment pointers into account, which     allows attackers to bypass this     limitation.(CVE-2017-1000365i1/4%0

  - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's eCryptfs implementation decoded encrypted file     names. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw     to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their     privileges on the system.(CVE-2014-9683i1/4%0

  - The Linux kernel was found vulnerable to an integer     overflow in the     drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c:uvesafb_setcmap()     function. The vulnerability could result in local     attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially     elevate privileges.(CVE-2018-13406i1/4%0

  - net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel     before 3.16.3, does not properly validate auth replies,     which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via crafted data from the IP address of a     Ceph Monitor.(CVE-2014-6418i1/4%0

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way     the Linux kernel's Common Internet File System (CIFS)     implementation handled mounting of file system shares.
    A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a client     system that would mount a file system share from a     malicious server.(CVE-2014-7145i1/4%0

  - The udp6_ufo_fragment function in     net/ipv6/udp_offload.c in the Linux kernel through     3.12, when UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) is enabled,     does not properly perform a certain size comparison     before inserting a fragment header, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a     large IPv6 UDP packet, as demonstrated by use of the     Token Bucket Filter (TBF) queueing     discipline.(CVE-2013-4563i1/4%0

  - The do_umount function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux     kernel through 3.17 does not require the CAP_SYS_ADMIN     capability for do_remount_sb calls that change the root     filesystem to read-only, which allows local users to     cause a denial of service (loss of writability) by     making certain unshare system calls, clearing the /     MNT_LOCKED flag, and making an MNT_FORCE umount system     call.(CVE-2014-7975i1/4%0

  - drivers/tty/n_tty.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.11     allows local attackers (who are able to access pseudo     terminals) to hang/block further usage of any pseudo     terminal devices due to an EXTPROC versus ICANON     confusion in TIOCINQ.(CVE-2018-18386i1/4%0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002268 advisory.

    net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly validate auth     replies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via crafted data from the IP address of a Ceph Monitor.

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

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
78259	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2379-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/11/2014	8/27/2024	high
78257	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2376-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/11/2014	1/19/2021	high
80578	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2015:027)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	1/19/2015	1/6/2021	high
286840	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002529)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	1/15/2026	1/15/2026	high
78258	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2378-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/11/2014	1/19/2021	high
124805	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1481)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/13/2019	2/19/2021	high
291194	Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-000845)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	1/16/2026	1/16/2026	high
124823	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1500)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/13/2019	5/23/2024	high
287746	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002268)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	1/15/2026	1/15/2026	high

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