The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:11232 advisory.

    The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

    Security Fix(es):

    * unbound: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-8508)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 9 : unbound:1.16.2 (RHSA-2024:11232)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 213152

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