The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5421-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affects

    Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-35522)

    Chintan Shah discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory when handling certain images. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to

    cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0561,     CVE-2022-0562, CVE-2022-0891)

    It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affects

    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 21.10. (CVE-2022-0865)

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 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-5421-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161209

Version 1.6