The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7070-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libarchive mishandled certain memory checks, which could result in a NULL pointer     dereference. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-36227)

    It was discovered that libarchive mishandled certain memory operations, which could result in an out-of-     bounds memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-48957, CVE-2024-48958)

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 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-7070-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 209121

Version 1.3

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Version 1.3 Mar 20, 2025, 7:47 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202503200747
Version 1.2 Oct 18, 2024, 8:22 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity Plugin Feed: 202410182022
Version 1.1 Oct 16, 2024, 4:49 PM New Plugin Feed: 202410161649