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Echo: linux: security update to 6.1.159-1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 458185

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: reject duplicate
 device on updates A chain/flowtable update with duplicated devices in the same batch is possible.
 Unfortunately, netdev event path only removes the first device that is found, leaving unregistered the
 hook of the duplicated device. Check if a duplicated device exists in the transaction batch, bail out with
 EEXIST in such case. WARNING is hit when unregistering the hook: [49042.221275] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 8425
 at net/netfilter/core.c:340 nf_hook_entry_head+0xaa/0x150 [49042.221375] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 8425 Comm: nft
 Tainted: G S 6.16.0+ #170 PREEMPT(full) [...] [49042.221382] RIP: 0010:nf_hook_entry_head+0xaa/0x150
 (CVE-2025-38678)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.1.159-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-38678

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 458185

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.88

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-38678

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-38678