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RockyLinux 8 : krb5 (RLSA-2025:8411)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243125

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:8411 advisory.

 * krb5: Kerberos RC4-HMAC-MD5 Checksum Vulnerability Enabling Message Spoofing via MD5 Collisions (CVE-2025-3576)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:8411

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359465

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 243125

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-8411.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3576

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-server-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libkadm5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-workstation-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-pkinit, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-server-ldap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-workstation, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-pkinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libkadm5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-3576