The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5952-1 advisory.

    Sebastian Poeplau discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated     system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2020-6851, CVE-2020-8112)

    It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2020-15389, CVE-2020-27814, CVE-2020-27823, CVE-2020-27824, CVE-2020-27841, CVE-2020-27845)

    It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-27842, CVE-2020-27843)

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 : OpenJPEG vulnerabilities (USN-5952-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172576

Version 1.3