The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5338-1 advisory.

    Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgroups implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     restrict access to the cgroups v1 release_agent feature. A local attacker could use this to gain     administrative privileges. (CVE-2022-0492)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen subsystem within the Linux kernel did not adequately limit the     number of events driver domains (unprivileged PV backends) could send to other guest VMs. An attacker in a     driver domain could use this to cause a denial of service in other guest VMs. (CVE-2021-28711,     CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen network backend driver in the Linux kernel did not adequately limit     the amount of queued packets when a guest did not process them. An attacker in a guest VM can use this to     cause a denial of service (excessive kernel memory consumption) in the network backend domain.
    (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)

    It was discovered that the simulated networking device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize memory in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2021-4135)

    Brendan Dolan-Gavitt discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly handle some error conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2021-43976)

    It was discovered that the ARM Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) subsystem 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 or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-44733)

    It was discovered that the Phone Network protocol (PhoNet) implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly perform reference counting in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to     cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45095)

    It was discovered that the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did     not properly deallocate memory in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause     a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45480)

    Samuel Page discovered that the Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol implementation in     the Linux kernel contained a stack-based buffer overflow. A remote attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) for systems that have a TIPC bearer configured. (CVE-2022-0435)

    It was discovered that the KVM implementation for s390 systems in the Linux kernel did not properly     prevent memory operations on PVM guests that were in non-protected mode. A local attacker could use this     to obtain unauthorized memory write access. (CVE-2022-0516)

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.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The version of hyperv-daemons / kernel installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2021-45480 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the
    __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.
    (CVE-2021-45480)

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

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5278-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the rlimit tracking for user namespaces in the Linux kernel did not properly     perform reference counting, leading to a use-after- free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-24122)

    It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict pointer types in     certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-23222)

    Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device     removal. A privileged or physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2020-27820)

    It was discovered that the Packet network protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double-     free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-22600)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen subsystem within the Linux kernel did not adequately limit the     number of events driver domains (unprivileged PV backends) could send to other guest VMs. An attacker in a     driver domain could use this to cause a denial of service in other guest VMs. (CVE-2021-28713)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen network backend driver in the Linux kernel did not adequately limit     the amount of queued packets when a guest did not process them. An attacker in a guest VM can use this to     cause a denial of service (excessive kernel memory consumption) in the network backend domain.
    (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)

    Szymon Heidrich discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict the     size of control requests for certain gadget types, leading to possible out of bounds reads or writes. A     local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2021-39685)

    It was discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition around read-     only maps. A privileged attacker could use this to modify read-only maps. (CVE-2021-4001)

    Jann Horn discovered a race condition in the Unix domain socket implementation in the Linux kernel that     could result in a read-after-free. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-4083)

    It was discovered that the simulated networking device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize memory in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2021-4135)

    Kirill Tkhai discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not calculate size     correctly when pre-allocating space in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose     sensitive information. (CVE-2021-4155)

    Eric Biederman discovered that the cgroup process migration implementation in the Linux kernel did not     perform permission checks correctly in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain     administrative privileges. (CVE-2021-4197)

    Brendan Dolan-Gavitt discovered that the aQuantia AQtion Ethernet device driver in the Linux kernel did     not properly validate meta-data coming from the device. A local attacker who can control an emulated     device can use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2021-43975)

    It was discovered that the ARM Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) subsystem 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 or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-44733)

    It was discovered that the Phone Network protocol (PhoNet) implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly perform reference counting in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to     cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45095)

    It was discovered that the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did     not properly deallocate memory in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause     a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45480)

    It was discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly track pointer types on     atomic fetch operations in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive     information (kernel pointer addresses). (CVE-2022-0264)

    Sushma Venkatesh Reddy discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not perform     a GPU TLB flush in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0330)

    It was discovered that the TIPC Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize     memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel     memory). (CVE-2022-0382)

    It was discovered that the VMware Virtual GPU driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain     failure conditions, leading to a stale entry in the file descriptor table. A local attacker could use this     to expose sensitive information or possibly gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2022-22942)

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 version of hyperv-daemons / kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2021-45480 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the
    __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.
    (CVE-2021-45480)

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

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 remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5050 advisory.

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation,     denial of service or information leaks. 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-2021-28711,     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-2021-39685 Szymon Heidrich discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability     in the USB gadget subsystem, resulting in information disclosure, denial of service or privilege     escalation. CVE-2021-45095 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-2022-0185 William Liu, Jamie Hill-Daniel, Isaac Badipe, Alec     Petridis, Hrvoje Misetic and Philip Papurt discovered a heap-based buffer overflow flaw in the     legacy_parse_param function in the Filesystem Context functionality, allowing an local user (with     CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in the current namespace) to escalate privileges. CVE-2022-23222 tr3e discovered     that the BPF verifier does not properly restrict several *_OR_NULL pointer types allowing these types to     do pointer arithmetic. A local user with the ability to call bpf(), can take advantage of this flaw to     excalate privileges. Unprivileged calls to bpf() are disabled by default in Debian, mitigating this flaw.
    For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 5.10.92-1. This version     includes changes which were aimed to land in the next Debian bullseye point release. 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 remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5368-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict pointer types in     certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-23222)

    It was discovered that the network traffic control implementation in the Linux kernel contained 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-2022-1055)

    Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgroups implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     restrict access to the cgroups v1 release_agent feature. A local attacker could use this to gain     administrative privileges. (CVE-2022-0492)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen subsystem within the Linux kernel did not adequately limit the     number of events driver domains (unprivileged PV backends) could send to other guest VMs. An attacker in a     driver domain could use this to cause a denial of service in other guest VMs. (CVE-2021-28711,     CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen network backend driver in the Linux kernel did not adequately limit     the amount of queued packets when a guest did not process them. An attacker in a guest VM can use this to     cause a denial of service (excessive kernel memory consumption) in the network backend domain.
    (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)

    Szymon Heidrich discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict the     size of control requests for certain gadget types, leading to possible out of bounds reads or writes. A     local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2021-39685)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the poll implementation in the Linux kernel, resulting     in 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-2021-39698)

    It was discovered that the simulated networking device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize memory in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2021-4135)

    Eric Biederman discovered that the cgroup process migration implementation in the Linux kernel did not     perform permission checks correctly in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain     administrative privileges. (CVE-2021-4197)

    Brendan Dolan-Gavitt discovered that the aQuantia AQtion Ethernet device driver in the Linux kernel did     not properly validate meta-data coming from the device. A local attacker who can control an emulated     device can use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2021-43975)

    It was discovered that the ARM Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) subsystem 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 or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-44733)

    It was discovered that the Phone Network protocol (PhoNet) implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly perform reference counting in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to     cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45095)

    It was discovered that the eBPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking on     mov32 operations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel pointer     addresses). (CVE-2021-45402)

    It was discovered that the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did     not properly deallocate memory in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause     a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45480)

    It was discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly track pointer types on     atomic fetch operations in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive     information (kernel pointer addresses). (CVE-2022-0264)

    It was discovered that the TIPC Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize     memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel     memory). (CVE-2022-0382)

    Samuel Page discovered that the Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol implementation in     the Linux kernel contained a stack-based buffer overflow. A remote attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) for systems that have a TIPC bearer configured. (CVE-2022-0435)

    It was discovered that the KVM implementation for s390 systems in the Linux kernel did not properly     prevent memory operations on PVM guests that were in non-protected mode. A local attacker could use this     to obtain unauthorized memory write access. (CVE-2022-0516)

    It was discovered that the ICMPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in     certain situations. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2022-0742)

    It was discovered that the IPsec implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly allocate enough     memory when performing ESP transformations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. A local attacker     could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2022-27666)

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 remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5377-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the network traffic control implementation in the Linux kernel contained 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-2022-1055)

    Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgroups implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     restrict access to the cgroups v1 release_agent feature. A local attacker could use this to gain     administrative privileges. (CVE-2022-0492)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen subsystem within the Linux kernel did not adequately limit the     number of events driver domains (unprivileged PV backends) could send to other guest VMs. An attacker in a     driver domain could use this to cause a denial of service in other guest VMs. (CVE-2021-28711,     CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen network backend driver in the Linux kernel did not adequately limit     the amount of queued packets when a guest did not process them. An attacker in a guest VM can use this to     cause a denial of service (excessive kernel memory consumption) in the network backend domain.
    (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)

    It was discovered that the simulated networking device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize memory in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2021-4135)

    Brendan Dolan-Gavitt discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly handle some error conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2021-43976)

    It was discovered that the ARM Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) subsystem 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 or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-44733)

    It was discovered that the Phone Network protocol (PhoNet) implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly perform reference counting in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to     cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45095)

    Wenqing Liu discovered that the f2fs file system in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the last     xattr entry in an inode. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious f2fs image that, when mounted     and operated on, could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2021-45469)

    It was discovered that the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did     not properly deallocate memory in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause     a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45480)

    Samuel Page discovered that the Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol implementation in     the Linux kernel contained a stack-based buffer overflow. A remote attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) for systems that have a TIPC bearer configured. (CVE-2022-0435)

    It was discovered that the IPsec implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly allocate enough     memory when performing ESP transformations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. A local attacker     could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2022-27666)

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 the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the
    __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.
    (CVE-2021-45480)

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

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5337-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict pointer types in     certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-23222)

    Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgroups implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     restrict access to the cgroups v1 release_agent feature. A local attacker could use this to gain     administrative privileges. (CVE-2022-0492)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen subsystem within the Linux kernel did not adequately limit the     number of events driver domains (unprivileged PV backends) could send to other guest VMs. An attacker in a     driver domain could use this to cause a denial of service in other guest VMs. (CVE-2021-28711,     CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713)

    Jrgen Gro discovered that the Xen network backend driver in the Linux kernel did not adequately limit     the amount of queued packets when a guest did not process them. An attacker in a guest VM can use this to     cause a denial of service (excessive kernel memory consumption) in the network backend domain.
    (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)

    Szymon Heidrich discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict the     size of control requests for certain gadget types, leading to possible out of bounds reads or writes. A     local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2021-39685)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the poll implementation in the Linux kernel, resulting     in 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-2021-39698)

    It was discovered that the simulated networking device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly     initialize memory in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information     (kernel memory). (CVE-2021-4135)

    Eric Biederman discovered that the cgroup process migration implementation in the Linux kernel did not     perform permission checks correctly in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain     administrative privileges. (CVE-2021-4197)

    Brendan Dolan-Gavitt discovered that the aQuantia AQtion Ethernet device driver in the Linux kernel did     not properly validate meta-data coming from the device. A local attacker who can control an emulated     device can use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2021-43975)

    It was discovered that the ARM Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) subsystem 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 or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-44733)

    It was discovered that the Phone Network protocol (PhoNet) implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly perform reference counting in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to     cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45095)

    It was discovered that the eBPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking on     mov32 operations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel pointer     addresses). (CVE-2021-45402)

    It was discovered that the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did     not properly deallocate memory in some error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause     a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2021-45480)

    It was discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly track pointer types on     atomic fetch operations in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive     information (kernel pointer addresses). (CVE-2022-0264)

    It was discovered that the TIPC Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize     memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel     memory). (CVE-2022-0382)

    Samuel Page discovered that the Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol implementation in     the Linux kernel contained a stack-based buffer overflow. A remote attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) for systems that have a TIPC bearer configured. (CVE-2022-0435)

    It was discovered that the KVM implementation for s390 systems in the Linux kernel did not properly     prevent memory operations on PVM guests that were in non-protected mode. A local attacker could use this     to obtain unauthorized memory write access. (CVE-2022-0516)

    It was discovered that the ICMPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in     certain situations. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2022-0742)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
159144	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5338-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/22/2022	8/28/2024	high
151965	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2021-4.0-0065	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/22/2021	10/16/2025	high
215435	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: hyperv-daemons / kernel (CVE-2021-45480)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	2/10/2025	9/15/2025	medium
157463	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-5278-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2/9/2022	8/27/2024	high
205684	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: hyperv-daemons / kernel (CVE-2021-45480)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	8/16/2024	2/10/2025	medium
158761	Debian DSA-5096-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	3/9/2022	9/25/2025	high
156950	Debian DSA-5050-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	1/21/2022	1/24/2025	high
159579	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5368-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/7/2022	8/29/2024	high
159729	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (BlueField) vulnerabilities (USN-5377-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/14/2022	9/19/2024	high
244455	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-45480	Nessus	Misc.	8/6/2025	9/6/2025	medium
159142	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5337-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/22/2022	8/27/2024	high

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