The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4148-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR image files. If a user were     tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-12596)

    Brandon Perry discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR image files. If a user     were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-9110, CVE-2017-9112,     CVE-2017-9116)

    Brandon Perry discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR image files. If a user     were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-9111, CVE-2017-9113, CVE-2017-9115)

    Tan Jie discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR image files. If a user were     tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-18444)

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 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : OpenEXR vulnerabilities (USN-4148-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129712

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Version 1.6 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408282302
Version 1.5 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-18444") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906