The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6202-1 advisory.

    David Korczynski and Adam Korczynski discovered that containerd incorrectly processed certain images with     large files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause containerd to crash, resulting in a denial     of service. (CVE-2023-25153)

    It was discovered that containerd incorrectly set up supplementary groups inside a container. An attacker     with direct access to the container could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or     execute code with higher privileges. (CVE-2023-25173)

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 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : containerd vulnerabilities (USN-6202-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178000

Version 1.3

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Version 1.3 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 1.2 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Plugin metadata Detection Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.1 Oct 6, 2023, 12:12 PM STIG Severity (set to "I") IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202310061212
Version 1.0 Jul 5, 2023, 9:03 PM New Plugin Feed: 202307052103