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RHEL 7 : corosync (RHSA-2026:68574)

high Nessus Plugin ID 346925

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for corosync.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:68574 advisory.

 The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and C APIs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.

 Security Fix(es):

 * corosync: corosync: heap-based buffer overflow in totempg assembly buffer during fragmented message reassembly (CVE-2026-81665)

 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL corosync package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:68574.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:68574

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524910

http://www.nessus.org/u?1e322ae9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 346925

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-68574.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2026

Updated: 9/17/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.21

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-81665

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:corosync-qdevice, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:corosync-qnetd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:corosync, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:corosynclib-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:corosynclib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:spausedd

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: 9/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-81665

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2026:68574