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GLSA-202509-04 : glibc: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265362

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202509-04 (glibc: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in glibc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All glibc users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-libs/glibc-2.41-r5

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202509-04

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956996

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960630

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265362

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202509-04.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/18/2025

Updated: 9/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4802

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Threat Score: 4.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8058

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:glibc, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4802, CVE-2025-8058