The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5776-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that containerd incorrectly handled memory when receiving certain faulty Exec or     ExecSync commands. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or crash     containerd. (CVE-2022-23471, CVE-2022-31030)

    It was discovered that containerd incorrectly set up inheritable file capabilities. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to escalate

    privileges inside a container. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu     22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24769)

    It was discovered that containerd incorrectly handled access to encrypted container images when using     imgcrypt library. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access encrypted images from other     users.

    This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24778)

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 / 22.04 LTS : containerd vulnerabilities (USN-5776-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168653

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Version 1.6 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 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: 202408281943
Version 1.5 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.4 Jul 11, 2023, 4:01 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") 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 CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202307110148
Version 1.2 Dec 13, 2022, 5:51 PM New Plugin Feed: 202212131751