Ubuntu 17.10 / 18.04 LTS : xapian-core vulnerability (USN-3709-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 111006
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches.
Description
It was discovered that Xapian-core incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected libxapian30 and / or xapian-tools packages.