The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2888 advisory.

    Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the NVIDIA binary driver and libraries that     provide optimized hardware acceleration which may lead to denial of service, information disclosure or     data corruption. For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 390.144-1~deb9u1. We     recommend that you upgrade your nvidia-graphics-drivers packages. For the detailed security status of     nvidia-graphics-drivers please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-     tracker.debian.org/tracker/nvidia-graphics-drivers Further information about Debian LTS security     advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at:
    https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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

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Debian DLA-2888-1 : nvidia-graphics-drivers - LTS security update

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