The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6209-1 advisory.

    Claudio Bozzato discovered that Gerbv incorrectly handled certain Gerber files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to crash Gerbv (resulting in a denial of service), or execute arbitrary code. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-40391,     CVE-2021-40394)

    Claudio Bozzato discovered that Gerbv incorrectly handled certain Gerber files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to disclose information, crash Gerbv (resulting in a denial of service), or execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu     20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-40393)

    Claudio Bozzato discovered that Gerbv incorrectly handled certain Gerber files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to disclose information. (CVE-2021-40400, CVE-2021-40403)

    Claudio Bozzato discovered that Gerbv incorrectly handled certain Gerber files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to disclose information, crash Gerbv (resulting in a denial of service), or execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-40401)

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 ESM : Gerbv vulnerabilities (USN-6209-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 178107

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Version 1.1 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 1.0 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM New Plugin Feed: 202307110148