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-6584-1 advisory.

    Philipp Jeitner and Haya Shulman discovered that Libspf2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or     an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-20314)

    It was discovered that Libspf2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and

    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-33912, CVE-2021-33913)

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 : Libspf2 vulnerabilities (USN-6584-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 188055

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

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 Jan 16, 2024, 3:32 AM Plugin metadata Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202401160332
Version 1.0 Jan 16, 2024, 12:03 AM New Plugin Feed: 202401160003