Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-8058

medium Nessus Plugin ID 249696

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- The regcomp function in the GNU C library version from 2.4 to 2.41 is subject to a double free if some previous allocation fails. It can be accomplished either by a malloc failure or by using an interposed malloc that injects random malloc failures. The double free can allow buffer manipulation depending of how the regex is constructed. This issue affects all architectures and ABIs supported by the GNU C library.
(CVE-2025-8058)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 249696

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_8058.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/15/2025

Updated: 9/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8058

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-glibc-headers, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:eglibc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nscd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss_db, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nscd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:glibc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-glibc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss_db, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-glibc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:glibc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glibc-static

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8058

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