Google: sys-kernel/csql-kernel-6_12, sys-kernel/csql-kernel-6_6: security update to 19216.0.62

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 468268

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: x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB
mitigation VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that exploits insufficient branch predictor isolation between a
guest and a userspace hypervisor (like QEMU). Existing mitigations already protect kernel/KVM from a
malicious guest. Userspace can additionally be protected by flushing the branch predictors after a VMexit.
Since it is the userspace that consumes the poisoned branch predictors, conditionally issue an IBPB after
a VMexit and before returning to userspace. Workloads that frequently switch between hypervisor and
userspace will incur the most overhead from the new IBPB. This new IBPB is not integrated with the
existing IBPB sites. For instance, a task can use the existing speculation control prctl() to get an IBPB
at context switch time. With this implementation, the IBPB is doubled up: one at context switch and
another before running userspace. The intent is to integrate and optimize these cases post-embargo. [
dhansen: elaborate on suboptimal IBPB solution ] (CVE-2025-40300)

Solution

Update the sys-kernel/csql-kernel-6_12 library and its related packages to version 19216.0.62 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-125.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 468268

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Published: 10/3/2026

Updated: 10/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 95.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: LOW

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40300

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40300