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RHEL 9 : sqlite (RHSA-2025:11992)

high Nessus Plugin ID 242957

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:11992 advisory.

 SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. A large subset of SQL92 is supported. A complete database is stored in a single disk file. The API is designed for convenience and ease of use.
 Applications that link against SQLite can enjoy the power and flexibility of an SQL database without the administrative hassles of supporting a separate database server.

 Security Fix(es):

 * sqlite: Integer Truncation in SQLite (CVE-2025-6965)

 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 sqlite package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:11992.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2380149

http://www.nessus.org/u?dab4f83f

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11992

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 242957

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-11992.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/29/2025

Updated: 7/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6965

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Threat Score: 4.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sqlite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sqlite-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sqlite-libs

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: 7/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6965

CWE: 197

RHSA: 2025:11992