RockyLinux 9 : sssd (RLSA-2026:97438)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 380190

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2026:97438 advisory.

* sssd: out-of-bounds read in the sssd (CVE-2026-6245)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* Performance impact with enumerate in SSSD > 2.7.3 [rhel-9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-143416)

* Poor performance of `BE_REQ_INITGROUPS` handling by 'sssd_be' (LDAP RFC2307, no nested groups) [rhel-9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-150439)

* [RFE] SSSD PAM: Support Microsoft AD PKINIT authentication indicator (ms-pkca) for pam_gssapi_indicators_map [rhel-9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-152067)

* [Rocky Linux9.9] - GDM Support for IdM IdP feature and MFA [SSSD] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-156519)

* SSSD Rebase for Rocky Linux 9.9 (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173741)

* [Rocky Linux9.9] Man page update: man sssd_krb5_localauth_plugin ? Missing disable = an2ln (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173742)

* [Rocky Linux9.9] Concurrent child processes trigger unnecessarily backtrace (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173743)

* [Rocky Linux9.9] Detect foreign security principals in AD group members and silently ignore them (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173744)

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 380190

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-97438.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/13/2026

Updated: 11/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.62

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-2026-6245

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:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libipa_hbac-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_autofs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_autofs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_certmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_certmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_certmap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_nss_idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_nss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_simpleifp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_simpleifp, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_sudo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libsss_sudo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-libipa_hbac-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-libsss_nss_idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-sss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-sss-murmur-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-sss-murmur, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-sss, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-sssdconfig, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-ad-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-client, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-common-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-common-pac-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-common-pac, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-common, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-dbus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-dbus, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-idp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-idp, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-ipa-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-kcm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-kcm, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-krb5-common-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-nfs-idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-nfs-idmap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-passkey-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-passkey, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-polkit-rules, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-proxy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-tools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-winbind-idmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd-winbind-idmap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sssd

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: 11/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-6245

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