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

  - drivers/uwb/uwbd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (general protection fault and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB     device. (CVE-2017-16526)

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

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3485-2 advisory.

    USN-3485-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the     corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu     14.04 LTS.

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel when creating     and deleting a port via ioctl(). A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15265)

    Eric Biggers discovered that the key management subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict     adding a key that already exists but is uninstantiated. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15299)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the packet fanout implementation in the Linux kernel. A     local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2017-15649)

    Eric Biggers discovered a race condition in the key management subsystem of the Linux kernel around keys     in a negative state. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15951)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the USB serial console driver in the Linux     kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16525)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the Ultra Wide Band driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for     an error condition. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16526)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA subsystem 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-2017-16527)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB     audio buffer descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16529)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB unattached storage driver in the Linux kernel contained out-of-     bounds error when handling alternative settings. A physically proximate attacker could use to cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16530)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB     interface association descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16531)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB HID     descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2017-16533)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate CDC     metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16534)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB BOS     metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2017-16535)

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.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

CVE-2017-0861

Robb Glasser reported a potential use-after-free in the ALSA (sound) PCM core. We believe this was not possible in practice.

CVE-2017-5715

Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system.

This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 2 (branch target injection) and is mitigated for the x86 architecture (amd64 and i386) by using the 'retpoline' compiler feature which allows indirect branches to be isolated from speculative execution.

CVE-2017-13166

A bug in the 32-bit compatibility layer of the v4l2 ioctl handling code has been found. Memory protections ensuring user-provided buffers always point to userland memory were disabled, allowing destination addresses to be in kernel space. On a 64-bit kernel (amd64 flavour) a local user with access to a suitable video device can exploit this to overwrite kernel memory, leading to privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-16526

Andrey Konovalov reported that the UWB subsystem may dereference an invalid pointer in an error case. A local user might be able to use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-16911

Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP vhci_hcd driver exposed kernel heap addresses to local users. This information could aid the exploitation of other vulnerabilities.

CVE-2017-16912

Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver failed to perform a range check on a received packet header field, leading to an out-of-bounds read. A remote user able to connect to the USB/IP server could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-16913

Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver failed to perform a range check on a received packet header field, leading to excessive memory allocation. A remote user able to connect to the USB/IP server could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-16914

Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver failed to check for an invalid combination of fields in a received packet, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A remote user able to connect to the USB/IP server could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-18017

Denys Fedoryshchenko reported that the netfilter xt_TCPMSS module failed to validate TCP header lengths, potentially leading to a use-after-free. If this module is loaded, it could be used by a remote attacker for denial of service or possibly for code execution.

CVE-2017-18203

Hou Tao reported that there was a race condition in creation and deletion of device-mapper (DM) devices. A local user could potentially use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-18216

Alex Chen reported that the OCFS2 filesystem failed to hold a necessary lock during nodemanager sysfs file operations, potentially leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local user could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-1068

The syzkaller tool found that the 32-bit compatibility layer of ebtables did not sufficiently validate offset values. On a 64-bit kernel (amd64 flavour), a local user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this to overwrite kernel memory, possibly leading to privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-1092

Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image would trigger a null dereference when mounted. A local user able to mount arbitrary filesystems could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-5332

Mohamed Ghannam reported that the RDS protocol did not sufficiently validate RDMA requests, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker on a system with the rds module loaded could use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-5333

Mohamed Ghannam reported that the RDS protocol did not properly handle an error case, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker on a system with the rds module loaded could possibly use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-5750

Wang Qize reported that the ACPI sbshc driver logged a kernel heap address. This information could aid the exploitation of other vulnerabilities.

CVE-2018-5803

Alexey Kodanev reported that the SCTP protocol did not range-check the length of chunks to be created. A local or remote user could use this to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2018-6927

Li Jinyue reported that the FUTEX_REQUEUE operation on futexes did not check for negative parameter values, which might lead to a denial of service or other security impact.

CVE-2018-7492

The syzkaller tool found that the RDS protocol was lacking a NULL pointer check. A local attacker on a system with the rds module loaded could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-7566

&#x8303;&#x9F99;&#x98DE; (Fan LongFei) reported a race condition in the ALSA (sound) sequencer core, between write and ioctl operations.
This could lead to an out-of-bounds access or use-after-free. A local user with access to a sequencer device could use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-7740

Nic Losby reported that the hugetlbfs filesystem's mmap operation did not properly range-check the file offset. A local user with access to files on a hugetlbfs filesystem could use this to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2018-7757

Jason Yan reported a memory leak in the SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI) subsystem. A local user on a system with SAS devices could use this to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2018-7995

Seunghun Han reported a race condition in the x86 MCE (Machine Check Exception) driver. This is unlikely to have any security impact.

CVE-2018-8781

Eyal Itkin reported that the udl (DisplayLink) driver's mmap operation did not properly range-check the file offset. A local user with access to a udl framebuffer device could exploit this to overwrite kernel memory, leading to privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-8822

Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect reported that the ncpfs client implementation did not validate reply lengths from the server. An ncpfs server could use this to cause a denial of service or remote code execution in the client.

CVE-2018-1000004

Luo Quan reported a race condition in the ALSA (sound) sequencer core, between multiple ioctl operations. This could lead to a deadlock or use-after-free. A local user with access to a sequencer device could use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-1000199

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the ptrace subsystem did not sufficiently validate hardware breakpoint settings. Local users can use this to cause a denial of service, or possibly for privilege escalation, on x86 (amd64 and i386) and possibly other architectures.

Additionally, some mitigations for CVE-2017-5753 are included in this release :

CVE-2017-5753

Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system.

This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 1 (bounds-check bypass) and is mitigated by identifying vulnerable code sections (array bounds checking followed by array access) and replacing the array access with the speculation-safe array_index_nospec() function.

More use sites will be added over time.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.101-1. This version also includes bug fixes from upstream versions up to and including 3.2.101. It also fixes a regression in the procfs hidepid option in the previous version (Debian bug #887106).

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

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

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly keep track of nested levels in guest page tables. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS.
(CVE-2017-12188)

It was discovered that on the PowerPC architecture, the kernel did not properly sanitize the signal stack when handling sigreturn(). A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-1000255)

Bo Zhang discovered that the netlink wireless configuration interface in the Linux kernel did not properly validate attributes when handling certain requests. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-12153)

It was discovered that the nested KVM implementation in the Linux kernel in some situations did not properly prevent second level guests from reading and writing the hardware CR8 register. A local attacker in a guest could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2017-12154)

Vitaly Mayatskikh discovered that the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly track reference counts when merging buffers. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2017-12190)

It was discovered that the key management subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict key reads on negatively instantiated keys. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-12192)

It was discovered that the ATI Radeon framebuffer driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a data structure returned to user space. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2017-14156)

ChunYu Wang discovered that the iSCSI transport implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate data structures. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2017-14489)

Alexander Potapenko discovered an information leak in the waitid implementation of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2017-14954)

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel when creating and deleting a port via ioctl(). A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15265)

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Floating Point Unit (fpu) subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle attempts to set reserved bits in a task's extended state (xstate) area. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-15537)

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the packet fanout implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15649)

Andrey Konovalov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the USB serial console driver in the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16525)

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the Ultra Wide Band driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for an error condition. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-16526)

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA subsystem 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-2017-16527)

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB audio buffer descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16529)

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB unattached storage driver in the Linux kernel contained out-of-bounds error when handling alternative settings. A physically proximate attacker could use to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16530)

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB interface association descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16531)

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB HID descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2017-16533)

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate CDC metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16534).

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.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002963 advisory.

    drivers/uwb/uwbd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (general protection fault and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB     device.

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4040 advisory.

    - gre: fix a possible skb leak (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 26403972]  {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: Fix leak in ipv6_gso_segment(). (David S. Miller)  [Orabug: 26403972]  {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt() (Ben Hutchings)  [Orabug: 26403972]     {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: Check ip6_find_1stfragopt() return value properly. (David S. Miller)  [Orabug: 26403972]     {CVE-2017-9074}
    - ipv6: Prevent overrun when parsing v6 header options (Craig Gallek)  [Orabug: 26403972]  {CVE-2017-9074}
    - tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead of 0 (Wei Wang)  [Orabug: 26813390]  {CVE-2017-14106}
    - rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't checked in ticket decode (David Howells)  [Orabug:
    26880517]  {CVE-2017-7482} {CVE-2017-7482}
    - USB: serial: console: fix use-after-free after failed setup (Johan Hovold)  [Orabug: 27206837]     {CVE-2017-16525}
    - uwb: properly check kthread_run return value (Andrey Konovalov)  [Orabug: 27206897]  {CVE-2017-16526}
    - ALSA: usb-audio: Check out-of-bounds access by corrupted buffer descriptor (Takashi Iwai)  [Orabug:
    27206928]  {CVE-2017-16529}
    - USB: fix out-of-bounds in usb_set_configuration (Greg Kroah-Hartman)  [Orabug: 27207240]     {CVE-2017-16531}
    - USB: core: fix out-of-bounds access bug in usb_get_bos_descriptor() (Alan Stern)  [Orabug: 27207983]     {CVE-2017-16535}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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 OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - x86/entry/64: Don't use IST entry for #BP stack (Andy     Lutomirski) (CVE-2018-8897)

  - perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix     documentation (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 27947608]     (CVE-2018-100199)

  - x86/microcode: probe CPU features on microcode update     (Ankur Arora) 

  - x86/microcode: microcode_write should not reference     boot_cpu_data (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27806667]

  - x86/cpufeatures: use cpu_data in     init_scattered_cpuid_flags (Ankur Arora) [Orabug:
    27806667]

  - Drivers: hv: fcopy: set .owner reference for file     operations (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 21191022]

  - ALSA: usb-audio: Kill stray URB at exiting (Takashi     Iwai) [Orabug: 27148281] (CVE-2017-16527)

  - HID: usbhid: fix out-of-bounds bug (Jaejoong Kim)     [Orabug: 27207929] (CVE-2017-16533)

  - [media] cx231xx-cards: fix NULL-deref on missing     association descriptor (Johan Hovold) [Orabug: 27208072]     (CVE-2017-16536)

  - net: cdc_ether: fix divide by 0 on bad descriptors     (Bj&oslash rn Mork) [Orabug: 27215201] (CVE-2017-16649)

  - x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a     revision check (Jia Zhang) [Orabug: 27343577]

  - x86/microcode/intel: Disable late loading on model 79     (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 27343577]

  - Bluetooth: bnep: bnep_add_connection should verify that     it's dealing with l2cap socket (Al Viro) [Orabug:
    27344793] (CVE-2017-15868)

  - Bluetooth: hidp: verify l2cap sockets (David Herrmann)     [Orabug: 27344793] (CVE-2017-15868)

  - ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in snd_pcm_info (Robb Glasser)     [Orabug: 27344843] (CVE-2017-0861) (CVE-2017-0861)

  - ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access     checks (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 27364691] (CVE-2017-14140)

  - sctp: do not peel off an assoc from one netns to another     one (Xin Long) [Orabug: 27387001] (CVE-2017-15115)

  - Revert 'x86/spec_ctrl: Add 'nolfence' knob to disable     fallback for spectre_v2 mitigation' (Ankur Arora)     [Orabug: 27601787] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - Revert 'x86/spec: Add 'lfence_enabled' in sysfs' (Ankur     Arora) [Orabug: 27601787] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - Revert 'x86/mitigation/spectre_v2: Add reporting of     'lfence'' (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27601787]     (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/mitigation/spectre_v2: Add reporting of 'lfence'     (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/spec: Add 'lfence_enabled' in sysfs (Konrad     Rzeszutek Wilk) (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/spec_ctrl: Add 'nolfence' knob to disable fallback     for spectre_v2 mitigation (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)     (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/spectre: bring spec_ctrl management logic closer to     UEK4 (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27516512] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/cpufeatures: Clean up Spectre v2 related CPUID flags     (David Woodhouse) [Orabug: 27516357] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/spectre_v2: Remove 0xc2 from spectre_bad_microcodes     (Darren Kenny) [Orabug: 27516419] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early     Spectre v2 microcodes (David Woodhouse) [Orabug:
    27516419] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86: intel-family.h: Add GEMINI_LAKE SOC (Len Brown)     [Orabug: 27516419]

  - x86/cpu/intel: Introduce macros for Intel family numbers     (Dave Hansen) [Orabug: 27516419]

  - x86/spectre: expose 'stibp' (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)     [Orabug: 27516419] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch     Prediction Barrier) support (David Woodhouse) [Orabug:
    27516379] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier     in context switch (Tim Chen) [Orabug: 27516379]     (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/spectre: fix spectre_v1 mitigation indicators (Ankur     Arora) [Orabug: 27509932] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/ia32/syscall: Clear extended registers %r8-%r15     (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27452028] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/ia32/syscall: Save full stack frame throughout the     entry code (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27452028]     (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/ia32/syscall: cleanup trailing whitespace (Ankur     Arora) [Orabug: 27452028] (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/syscall: Clear callee saved registers (%r12-%r15,     %rbp, %rbx) (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27452028]     (CVE-2017-5715)

  - x86/syscall: Save callee saved registers on syscall     entrance (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27452028]     (CVE-2017-5715)

  - gre: fix a possible skb leak (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug:
    26403972] (CVE-2017-9074)

  - ipv6: Fix leak in ipv6_gso_segment. (David S. Miller)     [Orabug: 26403972] (CVE-2017-9074)

  - ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by     xfrm6_find_1stfragopt (Ben Hutchings) [Orabug: 26403972]     (CVE-2017-9074)

  - ipv6: Check ip6_find_1stfragopt return value properly.
    (David S. Miller) [Orabug: 26403972] (CVE-2017-9074)

  - ipv6: Prevent overrun when parsing v6 header options     (Craig Gallek) [Orabug: 26403972] (CVE-2017-9074)

  - tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead of 0 (Wei     Wang) [Orabug: 26813390] (CVE-2017-14106)

  - rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't     checked in ticket decode (David Howells) [Orabug:
    26880517] (CVE-2017-7482) (CVE-2017-7482)

  - xen/mmu: Call xen_cleanhighmap with 4MB aligned for page     tables mapping (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 26883322]

  - KVM: x86: fix deadlock in clock-in-progress request     handling (Marcelo Tosatti) [Orabug: 27065995]

  - ocfs2: fstrim: Fix start offset of first cluster group     during fstrim (Ashish Samant) [Orabug: 27099835]

  - USB: serial: console: fix use-after-free after failed     setup (Johan Hovold) [Orabug: 27206837] (CVE-2017-16525)

  - uwb: properly check kthread_run return value (Andrey     Konovalov) [Orabug: 27206897] (CVE-2017-16526)

  - ALSA: usb-audio: Check out-of-bounds access by corrupted     buffer descriptor (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 27206928]     (CVE-2017-16529)

  - USB: fix out-of-bounds in usb_set_configuration (Greg     Kroah-Hartman) [Orabug: 27207240] (CVE-2017-16531)

  - USB: core: fix out-of-bounds access bug in     usb_get_bos_descriptor (Alan Stern) [Orabug: 27207983]     (CVE-2017-16535)

  - dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code     (Mohamed Ghannam) [Orabug: 27290301] (CVE-2017-8824)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3485-3 advisory.

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel when creating     and deleting a port via ioctl(). A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15265)

    Eric Biggers discovered that the key management subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict     adding a key that already exists but is uninstantiated. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15299)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the packet fanout implementation in the Linux kernel. A     local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2017-15649)

    Eric Biggers discovered a race condition in the key management subsystem of the Linux kernel around keys     in a negative state. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15951)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the USB serial console driver in the Linux     kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16525)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the Ultra Wide Band driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for     an error condition. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16526)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA subsystem 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-2017-16527)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB     audio buffer descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16529)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB unattached storage driver in the Linux kernel contained out-of-     bounds error when handling alternative settings. A physically proximate attacker could use to cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16530)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB     interface association descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16531)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB HID     descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2017-16533)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate CDC     metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16534)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB BOS     metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2017-16535)

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.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

  - CVE-2015-9016     Ming Lei reported a race condition in the multiqueue     block layer (blk-mq). On a system with a driver using     blk-mq (mtip32xx, null_blk, or virtio_blk), a local user     might be able to use this for denial of service or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2017-0861     Robb Glasser reported a potential use-after-free in the     ALSA (sound) PCM core. We believe this was not possible     in practice.

  - CVE-2017-5715     Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in     various processors supporting speculative execution,     enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process     to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from     the kernel and all other processes running on the     system.

  This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 2 (branch target   injection) and is mitigated for the x86 architecture (amd64 and   i386) by using the 'retpoline' compiler feature which allows   indirect branches to be isolated from speculative execution.

  - CVE-2017-5753     Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in     various processors supporting speculative execution,     enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process     to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from     the kernel and all other processes running on the     system.

  This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 1 (bounds-check   bypass) and is mitigated by identifying vulnerable code sections   (array bounds checking followed by array access) and replacing the   array access with the speculation-safe array_index_nospec()   function.

  More use sites will be added over time.

  - CVE-2017-13166     A bug in the 32-bit compatibility layer of the v4l2     ioctl handling code has been found. Memory protections     ensuring user-provided buffers always point to userland     memory were disabled, allowing destination addresses to     be in kernel space. On a 64-bit kernel a local user with     access to a suitable video device can exploit this to     overwrite kernel memory, leading to privilege     escalation.

  - CVE-2017-13220     Al Viro reported that the Bluetooth HIDP implementation     could dereference a pointer before performing the     necessary type check. A local user could use this to     cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-16526     Andrey Konovalov reported that the UWB subsystem may     dereference an invalid pointer in an error case. A local     user might be able to use this for denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-16911     Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP vhci_hcd     driver exposed kernel heap addresses to local users.
    This information could aid the exploitation of other     vulnerabilities.

  - CVE-2017-16912     Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver     failed to perform a range check on a received packet     header field, leading to an out-of-bounds read. A remote     user able to connect to the USB/IP server could use this     for denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-16913     Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver     failed to perform a range check on a received packet     header field, leading to excessive memory allocation. A     remote user able to connect to the USB/IP server could     use this for denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-16914     Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver     failed to check for an invalid combination of fields in     a received packet, leading to a NULL pointer     dereference. A remote user able to connect to the USB/IP     server could use this for denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-18017     Denys Fedoryshchenko reported that the netfilter     xt_TCPMSS module failed to validate TCP header lengths,     potentially leading to a use-after-free. If this module     is loaded, it could be used by a remote attacker for     denial of service or possibly for code execution.

  - CVE-2017-18203     Hou Tao reported that there was a race condition in     creation and deletion of device-mapper (DM) devices. A     local user could potentially use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2017-18216     Alex Chen reported that the OCFS2 filesystem failed to     hold a necessary lock during nodemanager sysfs file     operations, potentially leading to a NULL pointer     dereference. A local user could use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2017-18232     Jason Yan reported a race condition in the SAS     (Serial-Attached SCSI) subsystem, between probing and     destroying a port. This could lead to a deadlock. A     physically present attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-18241     Yunlei He reported that the f2fs implementation does not     properly initialise its state if the 'noflush_merge'     mount option is used. A local user with access to a     filesystem mounted with this option could use this to     cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-1066     Dan Aloni reported to Red Hat that the CIFS client     implementation would dereference a NULL pointer if the     server sent an invalid response during NTLMSSP setup     negotiation. This could be used by a malicious server     for denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-1068     The syzkaller tool found that the 32-bit compatibility     layer of ebtables did not sufficiently validate offset     values. On a 64-bit kernel, a local user with the     CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in any user namespace) could     use this to overwrite kernel memory, possibly leading to     privilege escalation. Debian disables unprivileged user     namespaces by default.

  - CVE-2018-1092     Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image     would trigger a null dereference when mounted. A local     user able to mount arbitrary filesystems could use this     for denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-5332     Mohamed Ghannam reported that the RDS protocol did not     sufficiently validate RDMA requests, leading to an     out-of-bounds write. A local attacker on a system with     the rds module loaded could use this for denial of     service or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-5333     Mohamed Ghannam reported that the RDS protocol did not     properly handle an error case, leading to a NULL pointer     dereference. A local attacker on a system with the rds     module loaded could possibly use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2018-5750     Wang Qize reported that the ACPI sbshc driver logged a     kernel heap address. This information could aid the     exploitation of other vulnerabilities.

  - CVE-2018-5803     Alexey Kodanev reported that the SCTP protocol did not     range-check the length of chunks to be created. A local     or remote user could use this to cause a denial of     service.

  - CVE-2018-6927     Li Jinyue reported that the FUTEX_REQUEUE operation on     futexes did not check for negative parameter values,     which might lead to a denial of service or other     security impact.

  - CVE-2018-7492     The syzkaller tool found that the RDS protocol was     lacking a null pointer check. A local attacker on a     system with the rds module loaded could use this for     denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-7566     Fan LongFei reported a race condition in the ALSA     (sound) sequencer core, between write and ioctl     operations. This could lead to an out-of-bounds access     or use-after-free. A local user with access to a     sequencer device could use this for denial of service or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-7740     Nic Losby reported that the hugetlbfs filesystem's mmap     operation did not properly range-check the file offset.
    A local user with access to files on a hugetlbfs     filesystem could use this to cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-7757     Jason Yan reported a memory leak in the SAS     (Serial-Attached SCSI) subsystem. A local user on a     system with SAS devices could use this to cause a denial     of service.

  - CVE-2018-7995     Seunghun Han reported a race condition in the x86 MCE     (Machine Check Exception) driver. This is unlikely to     have any security impact.

  - CVE-2018-8781     Eyal Itkin reported that the udl (DisplayLink) driver's     mmap operation did not properly range-check the file     offset. A local user with access to a udl framebuffer     device could exploit this to overwrite kernel memory,     leading to privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-8822     Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect reported that the ncpfs     client implementation did not validate reply lengths     from the server. An ncpfs server could use this to cause     a denial of service or remote code execution in the     client.

  - CVE-2018-1000004     Luo Quan reported a race condition in the ALSA (sound)     sequencer core, between multiple ioctl operations. This     could lead to a deadlock or use-after-free. A local user     with access to a sequencer device could use this for     denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-1000199     Andy Lutomirski discovered that the ptrace subsystem did     not sufficiently validate hardware breakpoint settings.
    Local users can use this to cause a denial of service,     or possibly for privilege escalation, on x86 (amd64 and     i386) and possibly other architectures.

ID	名稱	產品	系列	已發布	已更新	嚴重性
221131	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-16526	Nessus	Misc.	2025/3/4	2026/11/6	high
104717	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3485-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2017/11/21	2024/8/27	high
109531	Debian DLA-1369-1 : linux security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	2018/5/3	2025/3/19	critical
104737	Ubuntu 17.10 : linux, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3487-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2017/11/22	2025/11/13	high
287813	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002963)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	2026/1/15	2026/1/16	high
107051	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4040)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	2018/2/28	2026/2/9	high
109668	OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0041) (Spectre)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	2018/5/10	2024/10/10	high
104735	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities (USN-3485-3)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2017/11/22	2024/8/27	high
109517	Debian DSA-4187-1 : linux - security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	2018/5/2	2024/10/15	critical

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