RHEL 10 : iputils (RHSA-2026:18162)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 315316

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for iputils.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:18162 advisory.

The iputils packages contain basic utilities for monitoring a network, including ping.

Security Fix(es):

* iputils: iputils integer overflow (CVE-2025-48964)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Release Notes linked from 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL iputils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:18162.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 315316

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-18162.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/19/2026

Updated: 5/19/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-48964

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:iputils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-48964

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2026:18162

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