The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3113-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that a long running unload handler could cause an incognito profile to be reused in some     circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could     potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-1586)

    Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a     specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting     (XSS) attacks, spoof an application's URL bar, obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via     application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5182, CVE-2016-5185, CVE-2016-5186,     CVE-2016-5187, CVE-2016-5188, CVE-2016-5189, CVE-2016-5192, CVE-2016-5194)

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-3113-1)

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