The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6762-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU C Library incorrectly handled netgroup requests. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2014-9984)

    It was discovered that GNU C Library might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-20109)

    It was discovered that GNU C Library when processing very long pathname arguments to the realpath     function, could encounter an integer overflow on 32-bit architectures, leading to a stack-based buffer     overflow and, potentially, arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2018-11236)

    It was discovered that the GNU C library getcwd function incorrectly handled buffers. An attacker could     use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3999)

    Charles Fol discovered that the GNU C Library iconv feature incorrectly handled certain input sequences.
    An attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-2961)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-6762-1)

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