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AlmaLinux 9 : bind (ALSA-2026:24367)

high Nessus Plugin ID 320645

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Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2026:24367 advisory.

 * bind: BIND 9 server memory exhaustion during GSS-API TKEY negotiation (CVE-2026-3039)
 * bind: BIND: Denial of Service via specially crafted DNS messages (CVE-2026-5946)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24367

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-24367.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 320645

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2026-24367.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 6/11/2026

Updated: 6/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-5946

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-chroot, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-license, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-utils, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-dnssec-doc, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-bind, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-dnssec-utils, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-3039, CVE-2026-5946

CWE: 1287, 770

RHSA: 2026:24367