RHEL 10 : qt6-qtbase (RHSA-2025:9486)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240479

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for qt6-qtbase.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9486 advisory.

Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. This package contains base tools, like string, xml, and network handling.

Security Fix(es):

* qt5: qt6: QtCore Assertion Failure Denial of Service (CVE-2025-5455)

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 qt6-qtbase package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:9486.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240479

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-9486.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/25/2025

Updated: 6/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5455

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Threat Score: 5.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-private-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtbase-examples

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: 6/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5455

CWE: 617

RHSA: 2025:9486

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