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Fedora 42 : glib2 (2025-16acfe9927)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 249263

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-16acfe9927 advisory.

 Resolve CVE-2025-7039 (Buffer Under-read on GLib through glib/gfileutils.c via get_tmp_file()) with several other bug fixes.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 glib2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-16acfe9927

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 249263

File Name: fedora_2025-16acfe9927.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2025

Updated: 8/14/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-7039

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glib2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-7039