The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6541-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the GNU C Library was not properly handling certain memory operations. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2023-4806,     CVE-2023-4813)

    It was discovered that the GNU C library was not properly implementing a fix for CVE-2023-4806 in certain     cases, which could lead to a memory leak. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of     service (application crash). This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-5156)

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 LTS / 23.04 : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-6541-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186676

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