The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4416-1 advisory.

    Florian Weimer discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote     attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-12133)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain SSE2-optimized memmove operations. A     remote attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of     service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-18269)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain pathname operations. A remote     attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11236)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain AVX-512-optimized mempcpy operations.
    A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of     service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11237)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain hostname loookups. A remote attacker     could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19591)

    Jakub Wilk discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain memalign functions. A remote     attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-6485)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly ignored the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment     variable after security transitions. A local attacker could use this issue to bypass ASLR restrictions.
    (CVE-2019-19126)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9169)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain bit patterns. A remote attacker could     use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-10029)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain signal trampolines on PowerPC. A     remote attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of     service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-1751)

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled tilde expansion. A remote attacker could use     this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-1752)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-4416-1)

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