The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4792-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that FreeIPA incorrectly handled certificates. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service by revoking arbitrary certificates This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2016-5404)

    It was discovered that FreeIPA incorrectly handled authentication attempts. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-7030)

    It was discovered that FreeIPA incorrectly handled user's permissions. An authenticated attacker could     possibly use this issue to modify other user's profiles or other unspecified impact. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9575)

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 : FreeIPA vulnerabilities (USN-4792-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183738

Version 1.1