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RockyLinux 9 : libvpx (RLSA-2025:9118)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266484

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:9118 advisory.

 * libvpx: Double-free in libvpx encoder (CVE-2025-5283)

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-2025:9118

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368749

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266484

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-9118.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/4/2025

Updated: 10/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5283

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvpx, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvpx-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvpx-devel, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvpx-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: 10/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5283

IAVA: 2025-A-0381-S