The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9140 advisory.

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel's GPU Nouveau driver functionality in     versions prior to 5.12-rc1 in the way the user calls ioctl DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_CHANNEL_ALLOC. This flaw     allows a local user to crash the system. (CVE-2020-25639)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-     of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre     mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, aka CID-f232326f6966. This affects     pointer types that do not define a ptr_limit. (CVE-2020-27170)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c has an off-by-one error     (with a resultant integer underflow) affecting out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to     side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory,     aka CID-10d2bb2e6b1d. (CVE-2020-27171)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the /proc/pid/syscall functionality of Linux Kernel 5.1     Stable and 5.4.66. More specifically, this issue has been introduced in v5.1-rc4 (commit     631b7abacd02b88f4b0795c08b54ad4fc3e7c7c0) and is still present in v5.10-rc4, so its likely that all     versions in between are affected. An attacker can read /proc/pid/syscall to trigger this vulnerability,     which leads to the kernel leaking memory contents. (CVE-2020-28588)

  - The bpf verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly handle mod32 destination register truncation when     the source register was known to be 0. A local attacker with the ability to load bpf programs could use     this gain out-of-bounds reads in kernel memory leading to information disclosure (kernel memory), and     possibly out-of-bounds writes that could potentially lead to code execution. This issue was addressed in     the upstream kernel in commit 9b00f1b78809 (bpf: Fix truncation handling for mod32 dst reg wrt zero) and     in Linux stable kernels 5.11.2, 5.10.19, and 5.4.101. (CVE-2021-3444)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. A kernel pointer leak can be used to determine     the address of the iscsi_transport structure. When an iSCSI transport is registered with the iSCSI     subsystem, the transport's handle is available to unprivileged users via the sysfs file system, at     /sys/class/iscsi_transport/$TRANSPORT_NAME/handle. When read, the show_transport_handle function (in     drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c) is called, which leaks the handle. This handle is actually the     pointer to an iscsi_transport struct in the kernel module's global variables. (CVE-2021-27363)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c is     adversely affected by the ability of an unprivileged user to craft Netlink messages. (CVE-2021-27364)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. Certain iSCSI data structures do not have     appropriate length constraints or checks, and can exceed the PAGE_SIZE value. An unprivileged user can     send a Netlink message that is associated with iSCSI, and has a length up to the maximum length of a     Netlink message. (CVE-2021-27365)

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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4750-1 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux Kernel where the function sunkbd_reinit having been scheduled by     sunkbd_interrupt before sunkbd being freed. Though the dangling pointer is set to NULL in     sunkbd_disconnect, there is still an alias in sunkbd_reinit causing Use After Free. (CVE-2020-25669)

  - A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the     ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating     privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system     availability. (CVE-2020-27815)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel where in the spk_ttyio_receive_buf2() function, it would     dereference spk_ttyio_synth without checking whether it is NULL or not, and may lead to a NULL-ptr deref     crash. (CVE-2020-27830)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the /proc/pid/syscall functionality of Linux Kernel 5.1     Stable and 5.4.66. More specifically, this issue has been introduced in v5.1-rc4 (commit     631b7abacd02b88f4b0795c08b54ad4fc3e7c7c0) and is still present in v5.10-rc4, so it's likely that all     versions in between are affected. An attacker can read /proc/pid/syscall to trigger this vulnerability,     which leads to the kernel leaking memory contents. (CVE-2020-28588)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9.
    Local attackers on systems with the speakup driver could cause a local denial of service attack, aka     CID-d41227544427. This occurs because of an invalid free when the line discipline is used more than once.
    (CVE-2020-28941)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Some OSes (such as Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) are     processing watch events using a single thread. If the events are received faster than the thread is able     to handle, they will get queued. As the queue is unbounded, a guest may be able to trigger an OOM in the     backend. All systems with a FreeBSD, Linux, or NetBSD (any version) dom0 are vulnerable. (CVE-2020-29568)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.10.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. The Linux     kernel PV block backend expects the kernel thread handler to reset ring->xenblkd to NULL when stopped.
    However, the handler may not have time to run if the frontend quickly toggles between the states connect     and disconnect. As a consequence, the block backend may re-use a pointer after it was freed. A misbehaving     guest can trigger a dom0 crash by continuously connecting / disconnecting a block frontend. Privilege     escalation and information leaks cannot be ruled out. This only affects systems with a Linux blkback.
    (CVE-2020-29569)

  - A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13.
    drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c may allow a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID,     aka CID-c8bcd9c5be24. (CVE-2020-29660)

  - A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13.
    drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.
    (CVE-2020-29661)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of string matching within a packet. A privileged     user (with root or CAP_NET_ADMIN) when inserting iptables rules could insert a rule which can panic the     system. Kernel before kernel 5.5-rc1 is affected. (CVE-2021-20177)

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-4751-1 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free was found in the way the console subsystem was     using ioctls KDGKBSENT and KDSKBSENT. A local user could use this flaw to get read memory access out of     bounds. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. (CVE-2020-25656)

  - A flaw was found in Linux Kernel because access to the global variable fg_console is not properly     synchronized leading to a use after free in con_font_op. (CVE-2020-25668)

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux Kernel where the function sunkbd_reinit having been scheduled by     sunkbd_interrupt before sunkbd being freed. Though the dangling pointer is set to NULL in     sunkbd_disconnect, there is still an alias in sunkbd_reinit causing Use After Free. (CVE-2020-25669)

  - A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel performance monitoring subsystem was found in the way if using     PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of     service. (CVE-2020-25704)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. Guest OS users     can cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a high rate of events to dom0, aka CID-e99502f76271.
    (CVE-2020-27673)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x.
    drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race     condition). This can cause a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by a dom0 crash     via events for an in-reconfiguration paravirtualized device, aka CID-073d0552ead5. (CVE-2020-27675)

  - A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked     down (usually due to Secure Boot) guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (pseries     platform) a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to that of a     running kernel. (CVE-2020-27777)

  - A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the     ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating     privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system     availability. (CVE-2020-27815)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel where in the spk_ttyio_receive_buf2() function, it would     dereference spk_ttyio_synth without checking whether it is NULL or not, and may lead to a NULL-ptr deref     crash. (CVE-2020-27830)

  - A use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver in versions prior to 5.10-rc6 was found in the     way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2020-27835)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the /proc/pid/syscall functionality of Linux Kernel 5.1     Stable and 5.4.66. More specifically, this issue has been introduced in v5.1-rc4 (commit     631b7abacd02b88f4b0795c08b54ad4fc3e7c7c0) and is still present in v5.10-rc4, so it's likely that all     versions in between are affected. An attacker can read /proc/pid/syscall to trigger this vulnerability,     which leads to the kernel leaking memory contents. (CVE-2020-28588)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9.
    Local attackers on systems with the speakup driver could cause a local denial of service attack, aka     CID-d41227544427. This occurs because of an invalid free when the line discipline is used more than once.
    (CVE-2020-28941)

  - A slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the Linux kernel before 5.9.7 could be used by local attackers to     read privileged information or potentially crash the kernel, aka CID-3c4e0dff2095. This occurs because     KD_FONT_OP_COPY in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c can be used for manipulations such as font height. (CVE-2020-28974)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Some OSes (such as Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) are     processing watch events using a single thread. If the events are received faster than the thread is able     to handle, they will get queued. As the queue is unbounded, a guest may be able to trigger an OOM in the     backend. All systems with a FreeBSD, Linux, or NetBSD (any version) dom0 are vulnerable. (CVE-2020-29568)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.10.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. The Linux     kernel PV block backend expects the kernel thread handler to reset ring->xenblkd to NULL when stopped.
    However, the handler may not have time to run if the frontend quickly toggles between the states connect     and disconnect. As a consequence, the block backend may re-use a pointer after it was freed. A misbehaving     guest can trigger a dom0 crash by continuously connecting / disconnecting a block frontend. Privilege     escalation and information leaks cannot be ruled out. This only affects systems with a Linux blkback.
    (CVE-2020-29569)

  - A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13.
    drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c may allow a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID,     aka CID-c8bcd9c5be24. (CVE-2020-29660)

  - A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13.
    drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.
    (CVE-2020-29661)

  - A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux     kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is     able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process. (CVE-2020-35508)

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

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9141 advisory.

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel's GPU Nouveau driver functionality in     versions prior to 5.12-rc1 in the way the user calls ioctl DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_CHANNEL_ALLOC. This flaw     allows a local user to crash the system. (CVE-2020-25639)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-     of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre     mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, aka CID-f232326f6966. This affects     pointer types that do not define a ptr_limit. (CVE-2020-27170)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c has an off-by-one error     (with a resultant integer underflow) affecting out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to     side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory,     aka CID-10d2bb2e6b1d. (CVE-2020-27171)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the /proc/pid/syscall functionality of Linux Kernel 5.1     Stable and 5.4.66. More specifically, this issue has been introduced in v5.1-rc4 (commit     631b7abacd02b88f4b0795c08b54ad4fc3e7c7c0) and is still present in v5.10-rc4, so it's likely that all     versions in between are affected. An attacker can read /proc/pid/syscall to trigger this vulnerability,     which leads to the kernel leaking memory contents. (CVE-2020-28588)

  - The bpf verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly handle mod32 destination register truncation when     the source register was known to be 0. A local attacker with the ability to load bpf programs could use     this gain out-of-bounds reads in kernel memory leading to information disclosure (kernel memory), and     possibly out-of-bounds writes that could potentially lead to code execution. This issue was addressed in     the upstream kernel in commit 9b00f1b78809 (bpf: Fix truncation handling for mod32 dst reg wrt zero) and     in Linux stable kernels 5.11.2, 5.10.19, and 5.4.101. (CVE-2021-3444)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. A kernel pointer leak can be used to determine     the address of the iscsi_transport structure. When an iSCSI transport is registered with the iSCSI     subsystem, the transport's handle is available to unprivileged users via the sysfs file system, at     /sys/class/iscsi_transport/$TRANSPORT_NAME/handle. When read, the show_transport_handle function (in     drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c) is called, which leaks the handle. This handle is actually the     pointer to an iscsi_transport struct in the kernel module's global variables. (CVE-2021-27363)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c is     adversely affected by the ability of an unprivileged user to craft Netlink messages. (CVE-2021-27364)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. Certain iSCSI data structures do not have     appropriate length constraints or checks, and can exceed the PAGE_SIZE value. An unprivileged user can     send a Netlink message that is associated with iSCSI, and has a length up to the maximum length of a     Netlink message. (CVE-2021-27365)

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-4752-1 advisory.

  - Legacy pairing and secure-connections pairing authentication in Bluetooth BR/EDR Core Specification v5.2     and earlier may allow an unauthenticated user to complete authentication without pairing credentials via     adjacent access. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker could impersonate a Bluetooth BR/EDR master or     slave to pair with a previously paired remote device to successfully complete the authentication procedure     without knowing the link key. (CVE-2020-10135)

  - A memory out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc2 with the ext3/ext4 file     system, in the way it accesses a directory with broken indexing. This flaw allows a local user to crash     the system if the directory exists. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
    (CVE-2020-14314)

  - Use-after-free vulnerability in fs/block_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8 allows local users to gain     privileges or cause a denial of service by leveraging improper access to a certain error field.
    (CVE-2020-15436)

  - The Linux kernel before version 5.8 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in     drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:serial8250_isa_init_ports() that allows local users to cause a denial     of service by using the p->serial_in pointer which uninitialized. (CVE-2020-15437)

  - Improper buffer restrictions in BlueZ may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of     service via adjacent access. This affects all Linux kernel versions that support BlueZ. (CVE-2020-24490)

  - A TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.3 could be used by local attackers     to corrupt memory or possibly have unspecified other impact because a size check is in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c     instead of fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c, aka CID-b4487b935452. (CVE-2020-25212)

  - The rbd block device driver in drivers/block/rbd.c in the Linux kernel through 5.8.9 used incomplete     permission checking for access to rbd devices, which could be leveraged by local attackers to map or unmap     rbd block devices, aka CID-f44d04e696fe. (CVE-2020-25284)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of biovecs in versions before 5.9-rc7. A zero-length     biovec request issued by the block subsystem could cause the kernel to enter an infinite loop, causing a     denial of service. This flaw allows a local attacker with basic privileges to issue requests to a block     device, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system     availability. (CVE-2020-25641)

  - A flaw was found in the HDLC_PPP module of the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9-rc7. Memory corruption     and a read overflow is caused by improper input validation in the ppp_cp_parse_cr function which can cause     the system to crash or cause a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data     confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-25643)

  - A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel performance monitoring subsystem was found in the way if using     PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of     service. (CVE-2020-25704)

  - An issue was discovered in ioapic_lazy_update_eoi in arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel before     5.9.2. It has an infinite loop related to improper interaction between a resampler and edge triggering,     aka CID-77377064c3a9. (CVE-2020-27152)

  - A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the     ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating     privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system     availability. (CVE-2020-27815)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the /proc/pid/syscall functionality of Linux Kernel 5.1     Stable and 5.4.66. More specifically, this issue has been introduced in v5.1-rc4 (commit     631b7abacd02b88f4b0795c08b54ad4fc3e7c7c0) and is still present in v5.10-rc4, so it's likely that all     versions in between are affected. An attacker can read /proc/pid/syscall to trigger this vulnerability,     which leads to the kernel leaking memory contents. (CVE-2020-28588)

  - A buffer over-read (at the framebuffer layer) in the fbcon code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.15 could be     used by local attackers to read kernel memory, aka CID-6735b4632def. (CVE-2020-28915)

  - An issue was discovered in __split_huge_pmd in mm/huge_memory.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.5. The     copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP     mapcount check, aka CID-c444eb564fb1. (CVE-2020-29368)

  - An issue was discovered in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.11. There is a race condition between     certain expand functions (expand_downwards and expand_upwards) and page-table free operations from an     munmap call, aka CID-246c320a8cfe. (CVE-2020-29369)

  - An issue was discovered in romfs_dev_read in fs/romfs/storage.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.4.
    Uninitialized memory leaks to userspace, aka CID-bcf85fcedfdd. (CVE-2020-29371)

  - A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13.
    drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c may allow a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID,     aka CID-c8bcd9c5be24. (CVE-2020-29660)

  - A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13.
    drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allows a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP, aka CID-54ffccbf053b.
    (CVE-2020-29661)

  - A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux     kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is     able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process. (CVE-2020-35508)

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
148459	Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2021-9140)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	4/13/2021	1/4/2024	high
148009	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4750-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/23/2021	1/9/2024	high
147978	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4751-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/23/2021	1/9/2024	high
148458	Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2021-9141)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	4/13/2021	1/16/2024	high
147982	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-4752-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/23/2021	1/9/2024	high

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