The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4171-1 advisory.

    Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root user. This     could be used by a local attacker to possibly crash Apport or have other unspecified consequences.
    (CVE-2019-11481)

    Sander Bos discovered a race-condition in Apport during core dump creation. This could be used by a local     attacker to generate a crash report for a privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged user.
    (CVE-2019-11482)

    Sander Bos discovered Apport mishandled crash dumps originating from containers. This could be used by a     local attacker to generate a crash report for a privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged     user. (CVE-2019-11483)

    Sander Bos discovered Apport mishandled lock-file creation. This could be used by a local attacker to     cause a denial of service against Apport. (CVE-2019-11485)

    Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport read various process-specific files with elevated privileges during     crash dump generation. This could could be used by a local attacker to generate a crash report for a     privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged user. (CVE-2019-15790)

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 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Apport vulnerabilities (USN-4171-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130396

Version 1.9