The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6629-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that UltraJSON incorrectly handled certain input with a large amount of indentation. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2021-45958)

    Jake Miller discovered that UltraJSON incorrectly decoded certain characters. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause key confusion and overwrite values in dictionaries. (CVE-2022-31116)

    It was discovered that UltraJSON incorrectly handled an error when reallocating a buffer for string     decoding. An attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory. (CVE-2022-31117)

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 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : UltraJSON vulnerabilities (USN-6629-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190410

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 Feb 15, 2024, 7:41 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202402151941
Version 1.0 Feb 12, 2024, 7:54 PM New Plugin Feed: 202402121954