The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1781 advisory.

    - Prevent crashing at masterformat system test (CVE-2023-6516)
    - Prevent increased CPU load on large DNS messages (CVE-2023-4408)
    - Prevent assertion failure when nxdomain-redirect is used with      RFC 1918 reverse zones (CVE-2023-5517)
    - Prevent assertion failure if DNS64 and serve-stale is used (CVE-2023-5679)
    - Specific recursive query patterns may lead to an out-of-memory       condition (CVE-2023-6516)
    - Prevent increased CPU consumption in DNSSEC validator (CVE-2023-50387       CVE-2023-50868)
    - Add downstream change complementing CVE-2023-50387
    - Limit the amount of recursion possible in control channel (CVE-2023-3341)

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

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

Detections

Analytics

Oracle Linux 8 : bind9.16 (ELSA-2024-1781)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193262

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 Nov 2, 2024, 5:10 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411020510
Version 1.1 Sep 22, 2024, 3:24 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202409220324
Version 1.0 Apr 12, 2024, 12:13 PM New Plugin Feed: 202404121213