The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-fae88b73eb advisory.

    # Security Fixes

    -    Validating DNS messages containing a lot of DNSSEC signatures could cause excessive CPU load, leading     to a denial-of-service condition. This has been fixed.
    ([CVE-2023-50387](https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-50387))

        ISC would like to thank Elias Heftrig, Haya Schulmann, Niklas Vogel, and Michael Waidner from the     German National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE for bringing this vulnerability to our     attention. [GL #4424]

    -    Parsing DNS messages with many different names could cause excessive CPU load. This has been fixed.
    ([CVE-2023-4408](https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-4408))

        ISC would like to thank Shoham Danino from Reichman University, Anat Bremler-Barr from Tel-Aviv     University, Yehuda Afek from Tel-Aviv University, and Yuval Shavitt from Tel-Aviv University for bringing     this vulnerability to our attention. [GL #4234]

    -    Specific queries could cause named to crash with an assertion failure when nxdomain-redirect was     enabled. This has been fixed. ([CVE-2023-5517](https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-5517)) [GL #4281]

    -    A bad interaction between DNS64 and serve-stale could cause named to crash with an assertion failure,     when both of these features were enabled. This has been fixed.
    ([CVE-2023-5679](https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-5679)) [GL #4334]

    -  Under certain circumstances, the DNS-over-TLS client code incorrectly attempted to process more than     one DNS message at a time, which could cause named to crash with an assertion failure. This has been     fixed. [GL #4487]

    - Full [Release notes](https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.18.24/doc/arm/html/notes.html#notes-for-     bind-9-18-24)

    ## Related blog post

    - [BIND 9 Security Release and Multi-Vendor Vulnerability Handling, CVE-2023-50387 and     CVE-2023-50868](https://www.isc.org/blogs/2024-bind-security-release/)

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

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

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Fedora 38 : bind / bind-dyndb-ldap (2024-fae88b73eb)

high Nessus Plugin ID 191487

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 Nov 15, 2024, 4:11 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411150411
Version 1.1 Jul 26, 2024, 11:33 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202407261133
Version 1.0 Mar 4, 2024, 2:33 PM New Plugin Feed: 202403041433