The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4258-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15099)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Virtual Video Test Driver in the Linux kernel. An     attacker with write access to /dev/video0 on a system with the vivid module loaded could possibly use this     to gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2019-18683)

    It was discovered that the btrfs file system in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata,     leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image     that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-18885)

    It was discovered that the crypto subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in     certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19050, CVE-2019-19062)

    It was discovered that the RSI 91x WLAN device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate     memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel     memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19071)

    It was discovered that the Broadcom Netxtreme HCA device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19077)

    It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause     a denial of service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19078)

    It was discovered that the Qualcomm IPC Router TUN device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     deallocate memory in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19079)

    It was discovered that the AMD GPU device drivers in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory     in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to possibly cause a denial of service (kernel     memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19082)

    Dan Carpenter discovered that the AppleTalk networking subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly     handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-19227)

    Or Cohen discovered that the virtual console subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict     writes to unimplemented vcsu (unicode) devices. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash) or have other unspecified impacts. (CVE-2019-19252)

    It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle ioctl     requests to get emulated CPUID features. An attacker with access to /dev/kvm could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-19332)

    It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     certain conditions. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that, when mounted,     could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-19767)

    It was discovered that the B2C2 FlexCop USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2019-15291)

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 Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-004167 advisory.

    In the AppleTalk subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a potential NULL pointer dereference     because register_snap_client may return NULL. This will lead to denial of service in net/appletalk/aarp.c     and net/appletalk/ddp.c, as demonstrated by unregister_snap_client, aka CID-9804501fa122.

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 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4254-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for     certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2019-14615)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Virtual Video Test Driver in the Linux kernel. An     attacker with write access to /dev/video0 on a system with the vivid module loaded could possibly use this     to gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2019-18683)

    It was discovered that the btrfs file system in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata,     leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image     that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-18885)

    It was discovered that multiple memory leaks existed in the Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver for the Linux kernel. A     local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (kernel memory exhaustion).
    (CVE-2019-19057)

    It was discovered that the crypto subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in     certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19062)

    It was discovered that the Realtek rtlwifi USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19063)

    Dan Carpenter discovered that the AppleTalk networking subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly     handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-19227)

    It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle ioctl     requests to get emulated CPUID features. An attacker with access to /dev/kvm could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-19332)

    It was discovered that the B2C2 FlexCop USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2019-15291)

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 leak.

CVE-2019-2215

The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Android binder driver. A local user on a system with this driver enabled could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. However, this driver is not enabled on Debian packaged kernels.

CVE-2019-10220

Various developers and researchers found that if a crafted file- system or malicious file server presented a directory with filenames including a '/' character, this could confuse and possibly defeat security checks in applications that read the directory.

The kernel will now return an error when reading such a directory, rather than passing the invalid filenames on to user-space.

CVE-2019-14895, CVE-2019-14901

ADLab of Venustech discovered potential heap buffer overflows in the mwifiex wifi driver. On systems using this driver, a malicious Wireless Access Point or adhoc/P2P peer could use these to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for remote code execution.

CVE-2019-14896, CVE-2019-14897

ADLab of Venustech discovered potential heap and stack buffer overflows in the libertas wifi driver. On systems using this driver, a malicious Wireless Access Point or adhoc/P2P peer could use these to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for remote code execution.

CVE-2019-15098

Hui Peng and Mathias Payer reported that the ath6kl wifi driver did not properly validate USB descriptors, which could lead to a NULL pointer derefernce. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-15217

The syzkaller tool discovered that the zr364xx mdia driver did not correctly handle devices without a product name string, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-15291

The syzkaller tool discovered that the b2c2-flexcop-usb media driver did not properly validate USB descriptors, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-15505

The syzkaller tool discovered that the technisat-usb2 media driver did not properly validate incoming IR packets, which could lead to a heap buffer over-read. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops) or to read sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVE-2019-16746

It was discovered that the wifi stack did not validate the content of beacon heads provided by user-space for use on a wifi interface in Access Point mode, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. A local user permitted to configure a wifi interface could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-17052, CVE-2019-17053, CVE-2019-17054, CVE-2019-17055, CVE-2019-17056

Ori Nimron reported that various network protocol implementations

  - AX.25, IEEE 802.15.4, Appletalk, ISDN, and NFC - allowed     all users to create raw sockets. A local user could use     this to send arbitrary packets on networks using those     protocols.

CVE-2019-17133

Nicholas Waisman reported that the wifi stack did not valdiate received SSID information before copying it, which could lead to a buffer overflow if it is not validated by the driver or firmware. A malicious Wireless Access Point might be able to use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or for remote code execution.

CVE-2019-17666

Nicholas Waisman reported that the rtlwifi wifi drivers did not properly validate received P2P information, leading to a buffer overflow. A malicious P2P peer could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or for remote code execution.

CVE-2019-19051

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the i2400m wimax driver if the software rfkill operation fails. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19052

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the gs_usb CAN driver if the open (interface-up) operation fails. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19056, CVE-2019-19057

Navid Emamdoost discovered potential memory leaks in the mwifiex wifi driver if the probe operation fails. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19062

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the AF_ALG subsystem if the CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG operation fails. A local user could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).

CVE-2019-19066

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the bfa SCSI driver if the get_fc_host_stats operation fails. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19227

Dan Carpenter reported missing error checks in the Appletalk protocol implementation that could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19332

The syzkaller tool discovered a missing bounds check in the KVM implementation for x86, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. A local user permitted to use KVM could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19523

The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free bug in the adutux USB driver. An attacker able to add and remove USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19524

The syzkaller tool discovered a race condition in the ff-memless library used by input drivers. An attacker able to add and remove USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19527

The syzkaller tool discovered that the hiddev driver did not correctly handle races between a task opening the device and disconnection of the underlying hardware. A local user permitted to access hiddev devices, and able to add and remove USB devices, could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19530

The syzkaller tool discovered a potential use-after-free in the cdc-acm network driver. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19531

The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free bug in the yurex USB driver. An attacker able to add and remove USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19532

The syzkaller tool discovered a potential heap buffer overflow in the hid-gaff input driver, which was also found to exist in many other input drivers. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19533

The syzkaller tool discovered that the ttusb-dec media driver was missing initialisation of a structure, which could leak sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVE-2019-19534, CVE-2019-19536

The syzkaller tool discovered that the peak_usb CAN driver was missing initialisation of some structures, which could leak sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVE-2019-19537

The syzkaller tool discovered race conditions in the USB stack, involving character device registration. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19767

The syzkaller tool discovered that crafted ext4 volumes could trigger a buffer overflow in the ext4 filesystem driver. An attacker able to mount such a volume could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19922

It was discovered that a change in Linux 3.16.61, 'sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift condition', could lead to tasks being throttled before using their full quota of CPU time. A local user could use this bug to slow down other users' tasks. This change has been reverted.

CVE-2019-19947

It was discovered that the kvaser_usb CAN driver was missing initialisation of some structures, which could leak sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVE-2019-19965

Gao Chuan reported a race condition in the libsas library used by SCSI host drivers, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker able to add and remove SCSI devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-19966

The syzkaller tool discovered a missing error check in the cpia2 media driver, which could lead to a use-after-free. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.16.81-1.

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.

ID	名前	製品	ファミリー	公開日	更新日	深刻度
133354	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4258-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2020/1/30	2024/8/27	high
288363	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-004167)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	2026/1/16	2026/1/16	medium
133293	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4254-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2020/1/28	2024/8/27	high
133101	Debian DLA-2068-1 : linux security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	2020/1/21	2024/3/29	critical

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