The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5328-1 advisory.

    Tavis Ormandy discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly parsed certain certificates. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSH to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : OpenSSL vulnerability (USN-5328-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158940

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Version 1.9 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 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: 202408281943
Version 1.8 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.7 Jul 13, 2023, 1:59 AM Detection Plugin Feed: 202307130159
Version 1.6 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901