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AlmaLinux 8 : qt5-qtbase (ALSA-2026:65897)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 344507

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Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2026:65897 advisory.

 * qt: Qt: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in text codec handling (CVE-2026-9499)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65897

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-65897.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 344507

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2026-65897.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 9/10/2026

Updated: 9/10/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-9499

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-common, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-examples, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-gui, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-mysql, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-odbc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase-static, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qt5-qtbase

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-9499

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2026:65897