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Fedora 41 : glibc (2025-e489437b3d)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240529

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-e489437b3d advisory.

 This update contains the following bug fixes and enhancements:
 * String function register clobbers specific to POWER10 machines (CVE-2025-5702, CVE-2025-5745).
 * Crashes in TLS management when auditors are used (rhbz#2330213)
 * Optimizations for x86-64 CPUs
 * Optimizations for AArch64 CPUs



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected glibc package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-e489437b3d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240529

File Name: fedora_2025-e489437b3d.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2025

Updated: 6/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5745

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5702, CVE-2025-5745