The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:6236 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

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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AlmaLinux 8 : binutils (ALSA-2023:6236)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184447

Version 1.0