Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, a missing error handling could lead an authenticated Incus user to cause a daemon crash through the import of a truncated storage bucket backup file. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202608-23 (Incus: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Incus. 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.

The remote Debian 13 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-6244 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-6244-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff     May 02, 2026                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : incus     CVE ID         : CVE-2026-40195 CVE-2026-40197 CVE-2026-40243 CVE-2026-40251                      CVE-2026-41647 CVE-2026-41648 CVE-2026-41684 CVE-2026-41685

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Incus, a system container     and virtual machine manager, which could result in denial of service,

    For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in     version 6.0.4-2+deb13u7.

    We recommend that you upgrade your incus packages.

    For the detailed security status of incus please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/incus

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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 Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, a missing error handling     could lead an authenticated Incus user to cause a daemon crash through the import of a truncated storage     bucket backup file. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0. (CVE-2026-41647)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
339353	GLSA-202608-23 : Incus: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	high
311800	Debian dsa-6244 : golang-github-lxc-incus-dev - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
311579	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-41647	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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