RockyLinux 8 : kernel (RLSA-2025:11298)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243138

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:11298 advisory.

* kernel: cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks (CVE-2022-49058)

* kernel: media: uvcvideo: Remove dangling pointers (CVE-2024-58002)

* kernel: media: uvcvideo: Fix double free in error path (CVE-2024-57980)

* kernel: x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes (CVE-2025-21991)

* kernel: net: atm: fix use after free in lec_send() (CVE-2025-22004)

* kernel: ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split (CVE-2025-23150)

* kernel: ext4: ignore xattrs past end (CVE-2025-37738)

* kernel: misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram() (CVE-2022-49788)

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 243138

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-11298.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21991

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:bpftool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo

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: 1/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49058, CVE-2022-49788, CVE-2024-57980, CVE-2024-58002, CVE-2025-21991, CVE-2025-22004, CVE-2025-23150, CVE-2025-37738

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