Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: kernel-rt / kernel-rt-core / kernel-rt-debug / kernel-rt-debug-core / etc (crlsa-2025_16373)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 357619

Synopsis

The Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-2025_16373 advisory.

* kernel: vsock: Fix transport_* TOCTOU (CVE-2025-38461)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ 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 based on the guidance in CIQ advisory crlsa-2025_16373.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16373

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383513

https://errata.build.resf.org/RLSA-2025:16373

http://www.nessus.org/u?889d989d

http://www.nessus.org/u?e9ce8f01

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 357619

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_8_crlsa-2025_16373.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-38461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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

Required KB Items: Host/OS/extended-third-party, Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-38461