The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5631-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain EOF characters. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause libjpeg-turbo to consume resource, leading to a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11813)

    It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain malformed jpeg files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause libjpeg-turbo to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2020-17541, CVE-2020-35538)

    It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain malformed PPM files. An attacker could     use this issue to cause libjpeg-turbo to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-46822)

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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities (USN-5631-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165321

Version 1.5