RHEL 9 : gpsd-minimal (RHSA-2026:0771)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 291623

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for gpsd-minimal.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:0771 advisory.

gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. The Red Hat support for this package is limited. See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/gpsd-support for more details.

Security Fix(es):

* gpsd: gpsd: Denial of Service due to malformed NAVCOM packet parsing (CVE-2025-67269)

* gpsd: gpsd: Arbitrary code execution via heap-based out-of-bounds write in NMEA2000 packet handling (CVE-2025-67268)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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

Update the RHEL gpsd-minimal package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:0771.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 291623

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-0771.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/19/2026

Updated: 1/19/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2025-67268

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:gpsd-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gpsd-minimal-clients, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-67268, CVE-2025-67269

CWE: 1285, 191

RHSA: 2026:0771

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