RHEL 8 : libimobiledevice (RHSA-2026:98105)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 378750

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:98105 advisory.

libimobiledevice is a library for connecting to mobile devices including phones and music players

Security Fix(es):

* libimobiledevice: libimobiledevice: Denial of Service via double free in service_receive (CVE-2026-116260)

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 libimobiledevice package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:98105.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:98105

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2560609

http://www.nessus.org/u?57621df4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 378750

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-98105.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2026

Updated: 11/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.23

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-116260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libimobiledevice-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libimobiledevice

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: 11/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-116260

CWE: 1341

RHSA: 2026:98105