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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0032: util-linux (ALINUX3-SA-2026:0032)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 298938

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2026:0032 advisory.

 Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2025-14104:
 A flaw was found in util-linux. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overread when processing 256-byte usernames, specifically within the `setpwnam()` function, affecting SUID (Set User ID) login-utils utilities writing to the password database.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux 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

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20260032.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 298938

File Name: alinux3_sa_2026-0032.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 2/13/2026

Updated: 2/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14104

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libmount-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libuuid, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libfdisk, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsmartcols, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsmartcols-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libfdisk-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:util-linux-user, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libblkid-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libmount, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:uuidd, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libmount, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libuuid-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libblkid, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:util-linux

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14104