RHEL 9 : coreutils (RHSA-2026:28911)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 322399

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:28911 advisory.

The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

Security Fix(es):

* coreutils: Heap Buffer Under-Read in GNU Coreutils sort via Key Specification (CVE-2025-5278)

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL coreutils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:28911.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 322399

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-28911.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/24/2026

Updated: 6/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5278

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:coreutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:coreutils-single, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 6/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5278

CWE: 121

RHSA: 2026:28911

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