The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2026:67165 advisory.

    * openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service via unbounded memory growth in QUIC server (CVE-2026-14456)
      * openssl: QUIC server may trigger double free when processing INITIAL packet (CVE-2026-18798)
      * openssl: heap buffer overflow in CMS key unwrapping (CVE-2026-63072)
      * openssl: invalid pointer dereference in CMP server via crafted protectionAlg (CVE-2026-63076)
      * openssl: RPK server signature algorithm selection can dereference a missing certificate     (CVE-2026-14457)
      * openssl: excessive memory use buffering DTLS records for a future epoch (CVE-2026-54874)
      * openssl: untrusted sender DN used as format string in CMP response validation (CVE-2026-63073)
      * openssl: CMP indefinite cache growth of ExtraCerts (CVE-2026-63074)
      * openssl: QUIC ACK-only packet retention can cause memory exhaustion (CVE-2026-63075)


    Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

      * openssl: HollowByte remote memory-exhaustion DoS fix may be missing [AlmaLinux 9.8.z]     (JIRA:AlmaLinux-232828)

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.

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AlmaLinux 9 : openssl (ALSA-2026:67165)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 345932

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