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-6723-1 advisory.

    Elias Heftrig, Haya Schulmann, Niklas Vogel, and Michael Waidner discovered that Bind icorrectly handled     validating DNSSEC messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume     resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-50387)

    It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled preparing an NSEC3 closest encloser proof. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
    (CVE-2023-50868)

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.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Bind vulnerabilities (USN-6723-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193082

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