RHEL 7 : mpfr (RHSA-2025:9332)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 240248

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mpfr.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9332 advisory.

The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding. The MPFR is efficient and also has a well-defined semantics. It copies the good ideas from the ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa). MPFR is based on the GMP multiple-precision library.

Security Fix(es):

* mpfr: buffer overflow in mpfr_strtofr (CVE-2014-9474)

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL mpfr package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:9332.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 240248

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-9332.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/23/2025

Updated: 6/23/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9474

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpfr, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpfr-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9474

RHSA: 2025:9332

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