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Fedora 45 : coreutils (2026-217bb52eb2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 331670

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-217bb52eb2 advisory.

 Automatic update for coreutils-9.11-6.fc45.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Mon Aug 3 2026 Luk Zaoral <[email protected]> - 9.11-6
 - CVE-2026-56391 - uniq: fix read overrun with -w (rhbz#2507449)
 - tee: fix infinite loop when write returns EAGAIN and short write errors

 ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 coreutils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-217bb52eb2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 331670

File Name: fedora_2026-217bb52eb2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2026

Updated: 8/3/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-56391

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Threat Score: 1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:coreutils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-56391