The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4819-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Leptonica incorrectly handled path names. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18196)

    It was discovered that Leptonica incorrectly handled certain input arguments. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2018-3836)

    It was discovered that Leptonica incorrectly handled input arguments. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2018-7186)

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 : Leptonica vulnerabilities (USN-4819-1)

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