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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : GDAL vulnerabilities (USN-8812-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 350178

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8812-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that GDAL incorrectly handled certain netCDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-49014)

 It was discovered that GDAL incorrectly handled certain HDF-EOS files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-8086, CVE-2026-8087, CVE-2026-8212, CVE-2026-8213)

 It was discovered that GDAL incorrectly handled certain HDF-EOS file metadata. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GDAL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-8084, CVE-2026-8088)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8812-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 350178

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8812-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2026

Updated: 9/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.97

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-8213

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-8087

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gdal-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gdal-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gdal-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdal-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdal-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdal1h, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdal20, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdal26, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdal30, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdal34t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgdal38, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-gdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-gdal

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-49014, CVE-2026-8084, CVE-2026-8086, CVE-2026-8087, CVE-2026-8088, CVE-2026-8212, CVE-2026-8213

USN: 8812-1