The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:8252 advisory.

    The libsoup packages provide an HTTP client and server library for GNOME.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libsoup: Heap buffer over-read in `skip_insignificant_space` when sniffing content (CVE-2025-2784)

    * libsoup: Denial of Service attack to websocket server (CVE-2025-32049)

    * libsoup: OOB Read on libsoup through function  soup_multipart_new_from_message in soup-multipart.c     leads to crash or  exit of process (CVE-2025-32914)

    * libsoup: Integer Underflow in soup_multipart_new_from_message() Leading to Denial of Service in libsoup     (CVE-2025-4948)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 8 : libsoup (RHSA-2025:8252)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237411

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Jun 6, 2025, 11:21 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202506061121
Version 1.1 May 28, 2025, 6:51 PM New Plugin Feed: 202505281851