The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3817-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled large amounts of data. A remote attacker could use this     issue to cause Python to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-1000030)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled running external commands in the shutil module. A remote     attacker could use this issue to cause Python to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1000802)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly used regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic     backtracking. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-1060, CVE-2018-1061)

    It was discovered that Python failed to initialize Expat's hash salt. A remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause hash collisions, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2018-14647)

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.

This update for python3 fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-10160: Fixed a regression in urlparse() and urlsplit() introduced by the fix for CVE-2019-9636 (bsc#1138459).

CVE-2018-14647: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability caused by a crafted XML document (bsc#1109847).

CVE-2018-1000802: Fixed a command injection in the shutil module (bsc#1109663).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 5.11.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-5.11.2 advisory.

  - Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: The heap based buffer overflow     can be used to get code execution. The component is: function name: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels,     assignment of nchars and the loop condition. The attack vector is: Bug can be used when application pass     invalid utf-8 strings to functions like pango_itemize. (CVE-2019-1010238)

  - curl before version 7.61.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the NTLM authentication code. The internal     function Curl_ntlm_core_mk_nt_hash multiplies the length of the password by two (SUM) to figure out how     large temporary storage area to allocate from the heap. The length value is then subsequently used to     iterate over the password and generate output into the allocated storage buffer. On systems with a 32 bit     size_t, the math to calculate SUM triggers an integer overflow when the password length exceeds 2GB (2^31     bytes). This integer overflow usually causes a very small buffer to actually get allocated instead of the     intended very huge one, making the use of that buffer end up in a heap buffer overflow. (This bug is     almost identical to CVE-2017-8816.) (CVE-2018-14618)

  - An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can     send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed     later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault). (CVE-2018-14598)

  - An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c is vulnerable     to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other     impact. (CVE-2018-14599)

  - An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a     variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading     to DoS or remote code execution. (CVE-2018-14600)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
118954	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Python vulnerabilities (USN-3817-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	11/14/2018	9/3/2025	critical
128019	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python3 (SUSE-SU-2019:2053-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/20/2019	5/2/2024	critical
164608	Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-5.11.2)	Nessus	Misc.	9/1/2022	7/22/2025	critical

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