RHEL 9 : pipewire (RHSA-2026:61240)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 341706

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for pipewire.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:61240 advisory.

PipeWire is a multimedia server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems.

Security Fix(es):

* pipewire: RAOP RTSP NULL Deref (CVE-2026-14324)

* pipewire: Pulse Server alloca Stack Overflow (CVE-2026-14330)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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

Update the RHEL pipewire package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:61240.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 341706

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-61240.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/31/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.63

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-14324

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-alsa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-gstreamer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-module-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-14324, CVE-2026-14330

CWE: 476, 770

RHSA: 2026:61240

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