The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3301-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the strongSwan gmp plugin incorrectly validated RSA public keys. A remote attacker     could use this issue to cause strongSwan to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9022)

    It was discovered that strongSwan incorrectly parsed ASN.1 CHOICE types. A remote attacker could use this     issue to cause strongSwan to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9023)

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.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : strongSwan vulnerabilities (USN-3301-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100546

Version 3.11