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Oracle Linux 10 : iputils (ELSA-2025-9421)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240925

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-9421 advisory.

 [20240905-2.1]
 - Fix CVE-2025-47268 iputils: Signed Integer Overflow in Timestamp Multiplication in iputils ping (RHEL-94582)

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 iputils package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-9421.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240925

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-9421.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2025

Updated: 6/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-47268

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:iputils, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47268