The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:8601 advisory.

    A replacement for libslirp and VPNKit, written in pure Go. It is based on the network stack of gVisor and     is used to provide networking for podman-machine virtual machines. Compared to libslirp, gvisor-tap-vsock     brings a configurable DNS server and dynamic port forwarding.

    Security Fix(es):

    * net/http: Request smuggling due to acceptance of invalid chunked data in net/http (CVE-2025-22871)

    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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 9 : gvisor-tap-vsock (RHSA-2025:8601)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 237871

Version 1.1