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RockyLinux 8 : edk2 (RLSA-2026:36721)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325883

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2026:36721 advisory.

 * openssl: Out-of-bounds read & write in RFC 3211 KEK Unwrap (CVE-2025-9230)

 Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

 * [FJ8.10 Bug] How to Update Secure Boot Certificates with Microsoft 2023 in KVM Guests (JIRA:Rocky Linux-151949)

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 edk2-aarch64 and / or edk2-ovmf packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396054

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:36721

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325883

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-36721.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 7/9/2026

Updated: 7/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.14

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9230

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:edk2-aarch64, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:edk2-ovmf

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: 7/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9230