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Oracle Linux 9 : skopeo (ELSA-2025-9145)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 240109

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-9145 advisory.

 - rebuild to fix CVE-2025-22871 skopeo: Request smuggling due to acceptance of invalid chunked data in net/http

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

Solution

Update the affected skopeo and / or skopeo-tests packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-9145.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 240109

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-9145.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/17/2025

Updated: 6/17/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22871

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:skopeo-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:skopeo, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-22871

IAVB: 2025-B-0048-S