The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4428-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Python documentation had a misleading information. A security issue could be     possibly caused by wrong assumptions of this information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM,     Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-17514)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain TAR archives. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-20907)

    It was discovered that incorrectly handled certain ZIP files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS     and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9674)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain IP values. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu     18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14422)

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 / 20.04 LTS : Python vulnerabilities (USN-4428-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138872

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