The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5103 advisory.

    Tavis Ormandy discovered that the BN_mod_sqrt() function of OpenSSL could be tricked into an infinite     loop. This could result in denial of service via malformed certificates. Additional details can be found     in the upstream advisory: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20220315.txt In addition this update     corrects a carry propagation bug specific to MIPS architectures. For the oldstable distribution (buster),     this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.1d-0+deb10u8. For the stable distribution (bullseye), this     problem has been fixed in version 1.1.1k-1+deb11u2. We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.
    For the detailed security status of openssl please refer to its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/openssl

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

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Debian DSA-5103-1 : openssl - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 158979

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Version 1.5 Jan 24, 2025, 9:25 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: 202501242125
Version 1.4 Nov 23, 2022, 7:53 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211231953