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RockyLinux 8 : cups (RLSA-2026:0596)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 284826

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-2026:0596 advisory.

 * CUPS: Local denial-of-service via cupsd.conf update and related issues (CVE-2025-61915)

 * cups: Slow client communication leads to a possible DoS attack (CVE-2025-58436)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2416039

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2416040

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:0596

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 284826

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-0596.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/15/2026

Updated: 1/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-61915

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-ipptool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-ipptool, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cups-lpd-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-58436, CVE-2025-61915