The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6413-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing checks when dealing with memory allocation     operations, which could lead to excessive memory consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-17122, CVE-2017-8421)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing bounds checks when processing debug     sections with objdump, which could lead to an overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause     a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-20671,     CVE-2018-6543)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a reachable assertion, which could lead to an intentional     assertion failure when processing certain crafted DWARF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-35205)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled memory management operations in several of its     functions, which could lead to excessive memory consumption due to memory leaks. An attacker could     possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-47007, CVE-2022-47008, CVE-2022-47010,     CVE-2022-47011)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing bounds checks when dealing with memory     allocation operations, which could lead to excessive memory consumption. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-48063)

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 : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-6413-1)

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Version 1.2 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 1.1 Oct 13, 2023, 11:16 PM Plugin metadata Detection Plugin Feed: 202310132316
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