The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:1944 advisory.

    The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols.
    BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing     with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND constructed a response to a query that met certain     criteria. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure     via a specially crafted DNS request packet. (CVE-2016-2776)

    Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting this issue.

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 5 / 6 / 7 : bind (RHSA-2016:1944)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93784

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