The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5770-1 advisory.

    Todd Eisenberger discovered that certain versions of GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) could be made to     clobber the status flag of RDRAND and RDSEED with specially crafted input. This could potentially lead to     less randomness in random number generation.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : GCC vulnerability (USN-5770-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 168518

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Version 1.5 Aug 29, 2024, 4:23 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408291623
Version 1.4 Jul 11, 2023, 4:01 AM Detection Plugin Feed: 202307110401
Version 1.3 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901
Version 1.3 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM Detection Plugin Feed: 202307110148
Version 1.2 Dec 9, 2022, 3:45 AM New Plugin Feed: 202212090345