The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6627-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libde265 could be made to read out of bounds. If a user or automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2021-35452, CVE-2021-36411, CVE-2022-43238, CVE-2022-43241, CVE-2022-43242)

    It was discovered that libde265 did not properly manage memory. If a user or automated system were tricked     into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of     service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-36408)

    It was discovered that libde265 contained a logical error. If a user or automated system were tricked into     opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2021-36409)

    It was discovered that libde265 could be made to write out of bounds. If a user or automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial     of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-36410, CVE-2022-43235, CVE-2022-43236, CVE-2022-43237,     CVE-2022-43239, CVE-2022-43240, CVE-2022-43243, CVE-2022-43248, CVE-2022-43252, CVE-2022-43253)

    It was discovered that libde265 could be made to write out of bounds. If a user or automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial     of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1253)

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 : libde265 vulnerabilities (USN-6627-1)

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Version 1.1 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
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