The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3091-1 advisory.

    A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a     specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via     application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5170)

    A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a     specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via     application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5171)

    An issue was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an     attacker could potentially exploit this to ontain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations.
    (CVE-2016-5172)

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial     of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5175, CVE-2016-5178)

    A use-after-free was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,     an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5177)

    It was discovered that Chromium does not ensure the recipient of a certain IPC message is a valid     RenderFrame or RenderWidget. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via     application crash, or execute arbitary code. (CVE-2016-7549)

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 : Oxide vulnerabilities (USN-3091-1)

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