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RockyLinux 8 : kernel (RLSA-2026:67468)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 346242

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:67468 advisory.

 * kernel: EDAC/bluefield: Fix potential integer overflow (CVE-2024-53161)

 * kernel: wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address (CVE-2025-71127)

 * kernel: KVM: nSVM: Always use vmcb01 in VMLOAD/VMSAVE emulation (CVE-2026-43133)

 * kernel: net: qrtr: fix refcount saturation and potential UAF in qrtr_port_remove (CVE-2026-52947)

 * kernel: wifi: nl80211: reject oversized EMA RNR lists (CVE-2026-53182)

 * kernel: blk-cgroup: fix UAF in __blkcg_rstat_flush() (CVE-2026-63802)

 * kernel: scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Widen FPIN pname walker counter to u32 (CVE-2026-63889)

 * kernel: wifi: mac80211: capture fast-RX rate before mesh reuses skb->cb (CVE-2026-64117)

 * kernel: Linux kernel: ath9k Wi-Fi driver use-after-free vulnerability leading to system crash (CVE-2026-68363)

 * kernel: dm-verity: fix buffer overflow in FEC calculation (CVE-2026-72098)

 * kernel: scsi: libiscsi_tcp: Bound SCSI Response data segment to the connection buffer (CVE-2026-74556)

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2333977

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429587

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467065

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492432

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492722

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502251

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502320

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502477

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2513286

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2516501

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2517010

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:67468

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 346242

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-67468.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 9/16/2026

Updated: 9/16/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.61

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-71127

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:bpftool-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-perf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-perf

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53161, CVE-2025-71127, CVE-2026-43133, CVE-2026-52947, CVE-2026-53182, CVE-2026-63802, CVE-2026-63889, CVE-2026-64117, CVE-2026-68363, CVE-2026-72098, CVE-2026-74556