The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3033-1 advisory.

    Hanno Bck discovered that libarchive contained multiple security issues when processing certain     malformed archive files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in     a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-8916, CVE-2015-8917 CVE-2015-8919,     CVE-2015-8920, CVE-2015-8921, CVE-2015-8922, CVE-2015-8923, CVE-2015-8924, CVE-2015-8925, CVE-2015-8926,     CVE-2015-8928, CVE-2015-8930, CVE-2015-8931, CVE-2015-8932, CVE-2015-8933, CVE-2015-8934, CVE-2016-5844)

    Marcin Icewall Noga discovered that libarchive contained multiple security issues when processing     certain malformed archive files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash,     resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4300, CVE-2016-4302)

    It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled memory allocation with large cpio symlinks. A remote     attacker could use this issue to possibly cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-4809)

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 : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-3033-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92312

Version 2.11