The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6638-1 advisory.

    Marc Beatove discovered buffer overflows exit in EDK2. An attacker on the local network could potentially     use this to impact availability or possibly cause remote code execution. (CVE-2022-36763, CVE-2022-36764,     CVE-2022-36765)

    It was discovered that a buffer overflows exists in EDK2's Network Package An attacker on the local     network could potentially use these to impact availability or possibly cause remote code execution.
    (CVE-2023-45230, CVE-2023-45234, CVE-2023-45235)

    It was discovered that an out-of-bounds read exists in EDK2's Network Package An attacker on the local     network could potentially use this to impact confidentiality. (CVE-2023-45231)

    It was discovered that infinite-loops exists in EDK2's Network Package An attacker on the local network     could potentially use these to impact availability. (CVE-2023-45232, CVE-2023-45233)

    Mate Kukri discovered that an insecure default to allow UEFI Shell in EDK2 was left enabled in Ubuntu's     EDK2. An attacker could use this to bypass Secure Boot. (CVE-2023-48733)

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 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : EDK II vulnerabilities (USN-6638-1)

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