The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6322-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed files. If a user or automated system     were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, elfutils could be made to crash or consume     resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-16062,     CVE-2018-16403, CVE-2018-18310, CVE-2018-18520, CVE-2018-18521, CVE-2019-7149, CVE-2019-7150,     CVE-2019-7665)

    It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled bounds checks in certain functions when processing     malformed files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file,     elfutils could be made to crash or consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-21047,     CVE-2021-33294)

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 : elfutils vulnerabilities (USN-6322-1)

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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
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