The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5923-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to read out of bounds when processing certain malformed image     files with the tiffcrop tool. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2023-0795, CVE-2023-0796, CVE-2023-0797, CVE-2023-0798, CVE-2023-0799)

    It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to write out of bounds when processing certain malformed     image files with the tiffcrop tool. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0800, CVE-2023-0801, CVE-2023-0802, CVE-2023-0803,     CVE-2023-0804)

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 / 22.04 LTS : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-5923-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 172213

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Version 1.3 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 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: 202408282302
Version 1.2 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.1 Aug 31, 2023, 2:16 PM 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") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202308311416
Version 1.0 Mar 8, 2023, 1:05 AM New Plugin Feed: 202303080105