Echo: linux: security update to 6.1.159-1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 459492

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: usb: storage: sddr55: Reject out-of-
bound new_pba Discovered by Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine. new_pba comes from the
status packet returned after each write. A bogus device could report values beyond the block count derived
from info->capacity, letting the driver walk off the end of pba_to_lba[] and corrupt heap memory. Reject
PBAs that exceed the computed block count and fail the transfer so we avoid touching out-of-range mapping
entries. (CVE-2025-40345)

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-2025-40345

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 459492

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.47

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40345

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40345