Ubuntu Kernel Vuln Docs (#20125)

Doc updates

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Co-authored-by: Noah Talerman <47070608+noahtalerman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Noah Talerman <noahtal@umich.edu>
Co-authored-by: Rachael Shaw <r@rachael.wtf>
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Tim Lee
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ For Fleet Premium users, each CVE includes its Common Vulnerability Scoring Syst
Fleet's strategy for detecting vulnerabilities (CVEs) varies according to the host's platform and
the software in question.
### Windows/MacOS hosts using the NVD dataset
### macOS, Windows, and Linux hosts using NVD
First, Fleet retrieves the installed software for each host using osquery queries. Then, Fleet
translates each installed software into [Common Platform Enumeration (CPE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Platform_Enumeration) names.
@@ -91,6 +91,19 @@ refreshed on a daily basis.
Finally, we look at the software inventory of each host and execute the assertions contained in the
corresponding OVAL file - any match is reported using the same channels as with Windows/Mac OS vulnerabilities
#### Ubuntu kernel vulnerabilities
For Ubuntu Linux, kernel vulnerabilities are detected against any installed kernel, even if it is not the actively running kernel.
Vulnerabilities are matched against software matching `linux-image.*`
(ie.`linux-image-5.4.0-163-generic`).
The Canonical OVAL feed is opinionated on the linux
variant (ie. `-generic`) when matching against vulnerabilities, so when Fleet detects a kernel variant not
available in the OVAL feed, it uses the NVD feed to look for vulnerabilities matching the following
CPE pattern:
`cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*;*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*`
## Performance
### Windows/Mac OS
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Fleet detects vulnerabilities for these software types:
As of right now, only app names with all ASCII characters are supported. Apps with names featuring non-ASCII characters, such as Cyrillic, will not generate matches.
For Ubuntu Linux, kernel vulnerabilities with known variants (ie. `-generic`) are detected using OVAL. Custom kernels (unknown variants) are detected using NVD.
### Advanced configuration
Fleet runs vulnerability downloading and processing via internal scheduled cron job. This internal mechanism is very useful