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Fedora 40 : openssh (2025-62f6cb2785)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216684

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-62f6cb2785 advisory.

 Fix missing error codes set and invalid error code checks in OpenSSH. It prevents memory exhaustion attack and a MITM attack when VerifyHostKeyDNS is on (CVE-2025-26465, CVE-2025-26466).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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

Update the affected openssh package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-62f6cb2785

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216684

File Name: fedora_2025-62f6cb2785.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2025

Updated: 2/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-26465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssh

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-26465, CVE-2025-26466

FEDORA: 2025-62f6cb2785

IAVA: 2025-A-0126