An issue was discovered in libmodbus before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5. There is an out-of-bounds read for the MODBUS_FC_WRITE_MULTIPLE_COILS case, aka VD-1302.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5173-2 advisory.

    USN-5173-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libmodbus. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu     14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.



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 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5173-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libmodbus incorrectly handled inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact.

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 Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2825 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in libmodbus before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5. There is an out-of-bounds read     for the MODBUS_FC_WRITE_MULTIPLE_COILS case, aka VD-1302. (CVE-2019-14462)

  - An issue was discovered in libmodbus before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5. There is an out-of-bounds read     for the MODBUS_FC_WRITE_MULTIPLE_REGISTERS case, aka VD-1301. (CVE-2019-14463)

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

Addresses CVE-2019-14462 and CVE-2019-14463

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
183690	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : libmodbus vulnerabilities (USN-5173-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
155944	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : libmodbus vulnerabilities (USN-5173-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
155675	Debian DLA-2825-1 : libmodbus - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
128130	Fedora 30 : libmodbus (2019-4942e01cdc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
128129	Fedora 29 : libmodbus (2019-355f6e10c1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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