An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-07-05.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-001256 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to     a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android     releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before     security patch level 2018-07-05.

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

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-003544 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to     a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android     releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before     security patch level 2018-07-05.

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

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-003525 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to     a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android     releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before     security patch level 2018-07-05.

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to     a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android     releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before     security patch level 2018-07-05. (CVE-2018-5873)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4227 advisory.

    - nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS (Cong Wang)  [Orabug: 28576290]  {CVE-2018-5873}
    - cdrom: Fix info leak/OOB read in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status (Scott Bauer)  [Orabug: 28664501]     {CVE-2018-16658}
    - ACPICA: acpi: acpica: fix acpi operand cache leak in nseval.c (Seunghun Han)  [Orabug: 28664577]     {CVE-2017-13695}

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

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS (Cong Wang)     [Orabug: 28576290] (CVE-2018-5873)

  - dm crypt: add middle-endian variant of plain64 IV     (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 28604628]

  - IB/ipoib: Improve filtering log message (Yuval Shaia)     [Orabug: 28655409]

  - IB/ipoib: Fix wrong update of arp_blocked counter (Yuval     Shaia) 

  - IB/ipoib: Update RX counters after ACL filtering (Yuval     Shaia) 

  - IB/ipoib: Filter RX packets before adding pseudo header     (Yuval Shaia) 

  - cdrom: Fix info leak/OOB read in     cdrom_ioctl_drive_status (Scott Bauer) [Orabug:
    28664501] (CVE-2018-16658)

  - ACPICA: acpi: acpica: fix acpi operand cache leak in     nseval.c (Seunghun Han) [Orabug: 28664577]     (CVE-2017-13695)

  - uek-rpm: Disable deprecated CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER     (Victor Erminpour) [Orabug: 28680213]

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
290938	Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-001256)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	high
286357	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003544)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	high
286296	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003525)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	high
221818	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-5873	Nessus	Misc.	high
117769	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4227)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
117764	OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0258)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	high

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