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Oracle Linux 8 : cups (ELSA-2026-36733)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 325924

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-36733 advisory.

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 - RHEL-177947 CVE-2026-34980 cups: control character injection in option values

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-36733.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 325924

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-36733.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/9/2026

Updated: 7/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.46

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34980

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Threat Score: 5.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:10:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-filesystem, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-ipptool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2026

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-34980