An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Repeatedly processing and caching results for these sets can lead to a denial of service.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Repeatedly processing and caching     results for these sets can lead to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-25590)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Debian 12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5851 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5852-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff     January 28, 2025                      https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : pdns-recursor     CVE ID         : CVE-2024-25590

    Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that too permissive parsing of some     resource record sets in the zone file parsing of PDNS Recursor could     result in denial of service.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in     version 4.8.8-1+deb12u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your pdns-recursor packages.

    For the detailed security status of pdns-recursor please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/pdns-recursor

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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

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

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-aebaa73b1f advisory.

    Update to latest upstream

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

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

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-08a6626c11 advisory.

    Update to latest upstream

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

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

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-af0bf62ac6 advisory.

    Update to latest upstream

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

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

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 8727b513-855b-11ef-9e50-6805ca2fa271 advisory.

    PowerDNS Team reports:
    PowerDNS Security Advisory 2024-04: Crafted responses can lead to                a denial of service due to cache inefficiencies in the Recursor

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
228140	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-25590	Nessus	Misc.	high
214667	Debian dsa-5851 : pdns-recursor - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
211104	Fedora 41 : pdns-recursor (2024-aebaa73b1f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
209092	Fedora 39 : pdns-recursor (2024-08a6626c11)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
209091	Fedora 40 : pdns-recursor (2024-af0bf62ac6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
208685	FreeBSD : powerdns-recursor -- denial of service (8727b513-855b-11ef-9e50-6805ca2fa271)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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