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RockyLinux 10 : coreutils (RLSA-2026:33124)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 325134

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2026:33124 advisory.

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368764

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:33124

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 325134

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-33124.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 7/6/2026

Updated: 7/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.69

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:rocky:linux:10, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:coreutils, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:coreutils-common, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:coreutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:coreutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:coreutils-single, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:coreutils-single-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5278