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GLSA-202608-22 : needrestart: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 339062

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202608-22 (needrestart: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in needrestart. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All needrestart users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-admin/needrestart-3.8

See Also

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=944015

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202608-22

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 339062

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202608-22.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Published: 8/24/2026

Updated: 8/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.35

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-48992

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:needrestart

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ubuntu needrestart Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11003, CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992