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

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpiolib: Fix crash on error in     gpiochip_get_ngpios() The gpiochip_get_ngpios() uses chip_*() macros to print messages. However these     macros rely on gpiodev to be initialised and set, which is not the case when called via bgpio_init(). In     such a case the printing messages will crash on NULL pointer dereference. Replace chip_*() macros by the     respective dev_*() ones to avoid such crash. (CVE-2025-21783)

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

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7521-1 advisory.

    Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to     compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

    - ARM64 architecture;

    - PowerPC architecture;

    - x86 architecture;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers;

    - Drivers core;

    - Network block device driver;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Character device driver;

    - TPM device driver;

    - Clock framework and drivers;

    - Hardware crypto device drivers;

    - FireWire subsystem;

    - EFI core;

    - Qualcomm firmware drivers;

    - GPIO subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - HID subsystem;

    - I2C subsystem;

    - I3C subsystem;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - Input Device (Mouse) drivers;

    - IOMMU subsystem;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - Media drivers;

    - NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver;

    - Fastrpc Driver;

    - Network drivers;

    - Operating Performance Points (OPP) driver;

    - PCI subsystem;

    - x86 platform drivers;

    - PPS (Pulse Per Second) driver;

    - PTP clock framework;

    - Remote Processor subsystem;

    - Real Time Clock drivers;

    - S/390 drivers;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - QCOM SoC drivers;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - Media staging drivers;

    - Trusted Execution Environment drivers;

    - TTY drivers;

    - UFS subsystem;

    - USB Device Class drivers;

    - USB core drivers;

    - USB Gadget drivers;

    - USB Host Controller drivers;

    - Framebuffer layer;

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - Ceph distributed file system;

    - Network file system (NFS) client;

    - Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

    - NILFS2 file system;

    - Overlay file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - UBI file system;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - Timer subsystem;

    - KVM subsystem;

    - Networking core;

    - ptr_ring data structure definitions;

    - Networking subsytem;

    - Amateur Radio drivers;

    - L3 Master device support module;

    - TCP network protocol;

    - XFRM subsystem;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - Process Accounting mechanism;

    - Perf events;

    - Padata parallel execution mechanism;

    - printk logging mechanism;

    - Scheduler infrastructure;

    - Workqueue subsystem;

    - Memory management;

    - B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - MAC80211 subsystem;

    - Multipath TCP;

    - Netfilter;

    - NFC subsystem;

    - Open vSwitch;

    - Rose network layer;

    - RxRPC session sockets;

    - Network traffic control;

    - Wireless networking;

    - Key management;

    - Landlock security;

    - Linux Security Modules (LSM) Framework;

    - Tomoyo security module;

    - SoC audio core drivers;

    - SOF drivers; (CVE-2025-21737, CVE-2025-21711, CVE-2025-21987, CVE-2025-21848, CVE-2024-49570,     CVE-2025-21762, CVE-2025-21738, CVE-2025-21712, CVE-2025-21719, CVE-2025-21870, CVE-2024-57984,     CVE-2025-21815, CVE-2025-21744, CVE-2024-58058, CVE-2024-58078, CVE-2024-57990, CVE-2024-54458,     CVE-2025-21899, CVE-2025-21814, CVE-2025-21746, CVE-2024-54456, CVE-2025-21739, CVE-2024-58057,     CVE-2025-21855, CVE-2025-21758, CVE-2024-58006, CVE-2024-58007, CVE-2025-21720, CVE-2024-58090,     CVE-2025-21852, CVE-2024-57982, CVE-2024-58013, CVE-2024-58082, CVE-2025-21825, CVE-2024-58072,     CVE-2024-57996, CVE-2025-21787, CVE-2025-21742, CVE-2025-21705, CVE-2025-21829, CVE-2024-58060,     CVE-2025-21811, CVE-2025-21900, CVE-2025-21853, CVE-2025-21809, CVE-2025-21938, CVE-2025-21728,     CVE-2025-21785, CVE-2025-21732, CVE-2025-21888, CVE-2025-21768, CVE-2025-21875, CVE-2025-21721,     CVE-2025-21766, CVE-2025-21892, CVE-2024-57953, CVE-2025-21772, CVE-2025-21735, CVE-2024-58017,     CVE-2024-58086, CVE-2024-58084, CVE-2025-21761, CVE-2024-58008, CVE-2024-57988, CVE-2025-21874,     CVE-2024-58011, CVE-2025-21706, CVE-2024-57999, CVE-2025-21858, CVE-2024-58061, CVE-2025-21727,     CVE-2025-21780, CVE-2024-58051, CVE-2025-21791, CVE-2025-21788, CVE-2025-21786, CVE-2024-58012,     CVE-2024-58010, CVE-2024-58001, CVE-2025-21844, CVE-2025-21708, CVE-2024-57834, CVE-2025-21873,     CVE-2025-21704, CVE-2025-21765, CVE-2025-21839, CVE-2025-21723, CVE-2024-57974, CVE-2025-21876,     CVE-2025-21782, CVE-2025-21866, CVE-2024-58076, CVE-2025-21724, CVE-2025-21895, CVE-2025-21770,     CVE-2025-21835, CVE-2024-58052, CVE-2025-21827, CVE-2024-58069, CVE-2025-21828, CVE-2025-21734,     CVE-2025-21781, CVE-2025-21971, CVE-2025-21775, CVE-2024-52559, CVE-2024-58020, CVE-2025-21713,     CVE-2024-58068, CVE-2024-58018, CVE-2025-21806, CVE-2025-21802, CVE-2025-21731, CVE-2025-21741,     CVE-2025-21847, CVE-2025-21767, CVE-2024-58003, CVE-2024-57993, CVE-2025-21725, CVE-2025-21796,     CVE-2025-21764, CVE-2025-21862, CVE-2025-21733, CVE-2024-58075, CVE-2025-21808, CVE-2024-58034,     CVE-2025-21707, CVE-2024-58080, CVE-2025-21784, CVE-2024-57994, CVE-2025-21890, CVE-2025-21754,     CVE-2024-58063, CVE-2025-21826, CVE-2025-21821, CVE-2024-58079, CVE-2024-58056, CVE-2025-21798,     CVE-2024-58077, CVE-2024-58019, CVE-2025-21748, CVE-2025-21759, CVE-2024-58004, CVE-2024-58081,     CVE-2024-57978, CVE-2025-21865, CVE-2024-58002, CVE-2025-21810, CVE-2025-21743, CVE-2024-57989,     CVE-2025-21718, CVE-2024-57987, CVE-2025-21877, CVE-2024-57973, CVE-2024-58070, CVE-2024-58071,     CVE-2025-21891, CVE-2024-58021, CVE-2024-58016, CVE-2024-58005, CVE-2025-21760, CVE-2025-21883,     CVE-2025-21878, CVE-2025-21881, CVE-2025-21838, CVE-2025-21783, CVE-2024-57986, CVE-2025-21793,     CVE-2025-21859, CVE-2025-21792, CVE-2025-21820, CVE-2025-21799, CVE-2025-21750, CVE-2025-21795,     CVE-2025-21854, CVE-2025-21836, CVE-2025-21726, CVE-2025-21846, CVE-2025-21864, CVE-2024-57977,     CVE-2025-21887, CVE-2025-21710, CVE-2025-21889, CVE-2025-21812, CVE-2025-21773, CVE-2024-57852,     CVE-2025-21856, CVE-2025-21871, CVE-2025-21763, CVE-2024-58064, CVE-2025-21804, CVE-2024-58055,     CVE-2025-21898, CVE-2025-21776, CVE-2025-21869, CVE-2025-21745, CVE-2025-21736, CVE-2025-21716,     CVE-2024-57981, CVE-2024-57979, CVE-2025-21715, CVE-2024-57998, CVE-2025-21790, CVE-2024-58085,     CVE-2025-21749, CVE-2024-58088, CVE-2025-21753, CVE-2025-21851, CVE-2024-58054, CVE-2025-21830,     CVE-2025-21832, CVE-2024-57980, CVE-2025-21885, CVE-2025-21863, CVE-2024-58053, CVE-2025-21823,     CVE-2025-21857, CVE-2024-58083, CVE-2024-58014, CVE-2025-21816, CVE-2025-21779, CVE-2025-21872,     CVE-2024-57997, CVE-2025-21867, CVE-2024-57985, CVE-2025-21831, CVE-2025-21801, CVE-2025-21868,     CVE-2025-21849)

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 NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has kernel packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix racy issue from session     lookup and expire Increment the session reference count within the lock for lookup to avoid racy issue     with session expire. (CVE-2024-58087)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nouveau: fix instmem race condition     around ptr stores Running a lot of VK CTS in parallel against nouveau, once every few hours you might see     something like this crash. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 PGD     8000000114e6e067 P4D 8000000114e6e067 PUD 109046067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 7 PID:
    53891 Comm: deqp-vk Not tainted 6.8.0-rc6+ #27 Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z390 I AORUS     PRO WIFI/Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI-CF, BIOS F8 11/05/2021 RIP: 0010:gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0xe3/0x180 [nouveau]     Code: c7 48 01 c8 49 89 45 58 85 d2 0f 84 95 00 00 00 41 0f b7 46 12 49 8b 7e 08 89 da 42 8d 2c f8 48 8b     47 08 41 83 c7 01 48 89 ee <48> 8b 40 08 ff d0 0f 1f 00 49 8b 7e 08 48 89 d9 48 8d 75 04 48 c1 RSP:
    0000:ffffac20c5857838 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000004d8001 RCX: 0000000000000001     RDX: 00000000004d8001 RSI: 00000000000006d8 RDI: ffffa07afe332180 RBP: 00000000000006d8 R08:
    ffffac20c5857ad0 R09: 0000000000ffff10 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffa07af27e2de0 R12: 000000000000001c     R13: ffffac20c5857ad0 R14: ffffa07a96fe9040 R15: 000000000000001c FS: 00007fe395eed7c0(0000)     GS:ffffa07e2c980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2:
    0000000000000008 CR3: 000000011febe001 CR4: 00000000003706f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000     DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: ... ?     gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0xe3/0x180 [nouveau] ? gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x37/0x180 [nouveau] nvkm_vmm_iter+0x351/0xa20     [nouveau] ? __pfx_nvkm_vmm_ref_ptes+0x10/0x10 [nouveau] ? __pfx_gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x10/0x10 [nouveau] ?
    __pfx_gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x10/0x10 [nouveau] ? __lock_acquire+0x3ed/0x2170 ?
    __pfx_gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x10/0x10 [nouveau] nvkm_vmm_ptes_get_map+0xc2/0x100 [nouveau] ?
    __pfx_nvkm_vmm_ref_ptes+0x10/0x10 [nouveau] ? __pfx_gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]     nvkm_vmm_map_locked+0x224/0x3a0 [nouveau] Adding any sort of useful debug usually makes it go away, so I     hand wrote the function in a line, and debugged the asm. Every so often pt->memory->ptrs is NULL. This     ptrs ptr is set in the nv50_instobj_acquire called from nvkm_kmap. If Thread A and Thread B both get to     nv50_instobj_acquire around the same time, and Thread A hits the refcount_set line, and in lockstep thread     B succeeds at refcount_inc_not_zero, there is a chance the ptrs value won't have been stored since     refcount_set is unordered. Force a memory barrier here, I picked smp_mb, since we want it on all CPUs and     it's write followed by a read. v2: use paired smp_rmb/smp_wmb. (CVE-2024-26984)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free bugs     caused by sco_sock_timeout When the sco connection is established and then, the sco socket is releasing,     timeout_work will be scheduled to judge whether the sco disconnection is timeout. The sock will be     deallocated later, but it is dereferenced again in sco_sock_timeout. As a result, the use-after-free bugs     will happen. The root cause is shown below: Cleanup Thread | Worker Thread sco_sock_release |     sco_sock_close | __sco_sock_close | sco_sock_set_timer | schedule_delayed_work | sco_sock_kill | (wait a     time) sock_put(sk) //FREE | sco_sock_timeout | sock_hold(sk) //USE The KASAN report triggered by POC is     shown below: [ 95.890016] ================================================================== [ 95.890496]     BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0 [ 95.890755] Write of size 4 at addr     ffff88800c388080 by task kworker/0:0/7 ... [ 95.890755] Workqueue: events sco_sock_timeout [ 95.890755]     Call Trace: [ 95.890755] <TASK> [ 95.890755] dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x110 [ 95.890755]     print_address_description+0x78/0x390 [ 95.890755] print_report+0x11b/0x250 [ 95.890755] ?
    __virt_addr_valid+0xbe/0xf0 [ 95.890755] ? sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0 [ 95.890755]     kasan_report+0x139/0x170 [ 95.890755] ? update_load_avg+0xe5/0x9f0 [ 95.890755] ?     sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0 [ 95.890755] kasan_check_range+0x2c3/0x2e0 [ 95.890755]     sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0 [ 95.890755] process_one_work+0x561/0xc50 [ 95.890755]     worker_thread+0xab2/0x13c0 [ 95.890755] ? pr_cont_work+0x490/0x490 [ 95.890755] kthread+0x279/0x300 [     95.890755] ? pr_cont_work+0x490/0x490 [ 95.890755] ? kthread_blkcg+0xa0/0xa0 [ 95.890755]     ret_from_fork+0x34/0x60 [ 95.890755] ? kthread_blkcg+0xa0/0xa0 [ 95.890755] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 [     95.890755] </TASK> [ 95.890755] [ 95.890755] Allocated by task 506: [ 95.890755]     kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x70 [ 95.890755] __kasan_kmalloc+0x86/0x90 [ 95.890755] __kmalloc+0x17f/0x360 [     95.890755] sk_prot_alloc+0xe1/0x1a0 [ 95.890755] sk_alloc+0x31/0x4e0 [ 95.890755] bt_sock_alloc+0x2b/0x2a0     [ 95.890755] sco_sock_create+0xad/0x320 [ 95.890755] bt_sock_create+0x145/0x320 [ 95.890755]
    __sock_create+0x2e1/0x650 [ 95.890755] __sys_socket+0xd0/0x280 [ 95.890755] __x64_sys_socket+0x75/0x80 [     95.890755] do_syscall_64+0xc4/0x1b0 [ 95.890755] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f [ 95.890755] [     95.890755] Freed by task 506: [ 95.890755] kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x70 [ 95.890755]     kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 [ 95.890755] poison_slab_object+0x118/0x180 [ 95.890755]
    __kasan_slab_free+0x12/0x30 [ 95.890755] kfree+0xb2/0x240 [ 95.890755] __sk_destruct+0x317/0x410 [     95.890755] sco_sock_release+0x232/0x280 [ 95.890755] sock_close+0xb2/0x210 [ 95.890755] __fput+0x37f/0x770     [ 95.890755] task_work_run+0x1ae/0x210 [ 95.890755] get_signal+0xe17/0xf70 [ 95.890755]     arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x3f/0x520 [ 95.890755] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x55/0x120 [ 95.890755]     do_syscall_64+0xd1/0x1b0 [ 95.890755] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f [ 95.890755] [ 95.890755]     The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800c388000 [ 95.890755] which belongs to the cache     kmalloc-1k of size 1024 [ 95.890755] The buggy address is located 128 bytes inside of [ 95.890755] freed     1024-byte region [ffff88800c388000, ffff88800c388400) [ 95.890755] [ 95.890755] The buggy address belongs     to the physical page: [ 95.890755] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000     index:0xffff88800c38a800 pfn:0xc388 [ 95.890755] head: order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0     pincount:0 [ 95.890755] ano ---truncated--- (CVE-2024-27398)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firewire: nosy: ensure user_length is     taken into account when fetching packet contents Ensure that packet_buffer_get respects the user_length     provided. If the length of the head packet exceeds the user_length, packet_buffer_get will now return 0 to     signify to the user that no data were read and a larger buffer size is required. Helps prevent user space     overflows. (CVE-2024-27401)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: process: Fix kernel gp leakage     childregs represents the registers which are active for the new thread in user context. For a kernel     thread, childregs->gp is never used since the kernel gp is not touched by switch_to. For a user mode     helper, the gp value can be observed in user space after execve or possibly by other means. [From the     email thread] The /* Kernel thread */ comment is somewhat inaccurate in that it is also used for     user_mode_helper threads, which exec a user process, e.g. /sbin/init or when /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern     is a pipe. Such threads do not have PF_KTHREAD set and are valid targets for ptrace etc. even before they     exec. childregs is the *user* context during syscall execution and it is observable from userspace in at     least five ways: 1. kernel_execve does not currently clear integer registers, so the starting register     state for PID 1 and other user processes started by the kernel has sp = user stack, gp = kernel
    __global_pointer$, all other integer registers zeroed by the memset in the patch comment. This is a bug in     its own right, but I'm unwilling to bet that it is the only way to exploit the issue addressed by this     patch. 2. ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET): you can PTRACE_ATTACH to a user_mode_helper thread before it execs,     but ptrace requires SIGSTOP to be delivered which can only happen at user/kernel boundaries. 3.
    /proc/*/task/*/syscall: this is perfectly happy to read pt_regs for user_mode_helpers before the exec     completes, but gp is not one of the registers it returns. 4. PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER: LOCKDOWN_PERF normally     prevents access to kernel addresses via PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR, but due to this bug kernel addresses are     also exposed via PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER which is permitted under LOCKDOWN_PERF. I have not attempted to     write exploit code. 5. Much of the tracing infrastructure allows access to user registers. I have not     attempted to determine which forms of tracing allow access to user registers without already allowing     access to kernel registers. (CVE-2024-35871)

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
230851	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-21783	Nessus	Misc.	3/6/2025	3/6/2025	medium
236983	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7521-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	5/20/2025	5/20/2025	high
238008	NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0084)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	6/9/2025	6/9/2025	high

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