The remote Debian 11 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3946 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3946-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                   Bastien Roucaris     November 05, 2024                             https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : context     Version        : 2020.03.10.20200331-1+deb11u1

    Context a general-purpose document processor was affected by     CVE-2023-32700 fix that by default disable luasocket.

    This bugfix release, fix the mtxrun program used at install time     of context (postinst) that was broken by CVE-2023-32700 patch.

    For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version     2020.03.10.20200331-1+deb11u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your context packages.

    For the detailed security status of context please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/context

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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

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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Debian dla-3946 : context - security update

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