Photon OS 5.0: Erlang PHSA-2026-5.0-91-0831

An update of the erlang package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2026-5.0-91-0831. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Fedora 42 : erlang (2026-dd4a7e240e)

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-dd4a7e240e advisory. Erlang ver. 26.2.5.19 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not...

CVE-2026-28810

A flaw was found in Erlang/OTP kernel. The built-in DNS resolver inetres uses predictable 16-bit transaction IDs and lacks source port randomization. A remote attacker can exploit this by observing or predicting DNS query IDs, leading to DNS cache poisoning. This allows the attacker to redirect...

CVE-2026-28810

Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers vulnerability in Erlang/OTP kernel inetres, inetdb modules allows DNS Cache Poisoning. The built-in DNS resolver inetres uses a sequential, process-global 16-bit transaction ID for UDP queries and does not implement source port randomization...