The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:17481 advisory.

    The rsync utility enables the users to copy and synchronize files locally or across a network.
    Synchronization with rsync is fast because rsync only sends the differences in files over the network     instead of sending whole files. The rsync utility is also used as a mirroring tool.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rsync: Rsync: Use-after-free vulnerability in extended attribute handling (CVE-2026-41035)

    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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : rsync (RHSA-2026:17481)

high Nessus Plugin ID 314642

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