The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5553-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly handling EOF characters, which could lead to     excessive memory consumption through the execution of a large loop. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-11813)

    It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly performing bounds check operations, which could lead     to a heap-based buffer overread. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially     crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-14498)

    It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly limiting the amount of main memory being consumed by     the system during decompression or multi-pass compression operations, which could lead to excessive memory     consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-14152)

    It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly setting variable sizes when performing certain kinds     of encoding operations, which could lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. If a user or automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a     denial of service. (CVE-2020-17541)

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 : libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities (USN-5553-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163922

Version 1.5