GLSA-202611-06 : PCRE2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 379441

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202611-06 (PCRE2: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PCRE2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All PCRE2 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-libs/libpcre2-10.49

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 379441

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202611-06.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 11/12/2026

Updated: 11/12/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

Percentile: 95.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89157

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89161

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:libpcre2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-86145, CVE-2026-89156, CVE-2026-89157, CVE-2026-89158, CVE-2026-89160, CVE-2026-89161, CVE-2026-89162

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