In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()") requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/ S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for special inodes.

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

  - hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 (vfs: catch invalid modes in     may_open()) requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/ S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type,     use S_IFREG for special inodes. (CVE-2026-43268)

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

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.252-250.992. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2026-115 advisory.

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue (CVE-2026-23066)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    RDMA/umad: Reject negative data_len in ib_umad_write (CVE-2026-23243)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    macvlan: observe an RCU grace period in macvlan_common_newlink() error path (CVE-2026-23273)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    pstore: ram_core: fix incorrect success return when vmap() fails (CVE-2026-43124)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    iommu/vt-d: Flush dev-IOTLB only when PCIe device is accessible in scalable mode (CVE-2026-43130)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    dm-verity: correctly handle dm_bufio_client_create() failure (CVE-2026-43132)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    HID: logitech-hidpp: Check maxfield in hidpp_get_report_length() (CVE-2026-43136)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    xfrm6: fix uninitialized saddr in xfrm6_get_saddr() (CVE-2026-43139)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    HID: magicmouse: Do not crash on missing msc->input (CVE-2026-43140)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    Revert PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV (CVE-2026-43147)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    HID: hid-pl: handle probe errors (CVE-2026-43152)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: usb: pegasus: enable basic endpoint checking (CVE-2026-43156)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    xfs: fix freemap adjustments when adding xattrs to leaf blocks (CVE-2026-43158)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    md/bitmap: fix GPF in write_page caused by resize race (CVE-2026-43163)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    EFI/CPER: don't dump the entire memory region (CVE-2026-43171)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: usb: kaweth: remove TX queue manipulation in kaweth_set_rx_mode (CVE-2026-43180)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    xfs: delete attr leaf freemap entries when empty (CVE-2026-43187)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: xt_tcpmss: check remaining length before reading optlen (CVE-2026-43190)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: consume xmit errors of GSO frames (CVE-2026-43194)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    PCI: Fix pci_slot_trylock() error handling (CVE-2026-43211)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net/rds: No shortcut out of RDS_CONN_ERROR (CVE-2026-43226)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net/rds: Clear reconnect pending bit (CVE-2026-43230)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() (CVE-2026-43233)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    arm64: Add support for TSV110 Spectre-BHB mitigation (CVE-2026-43261)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    EFI/CPER: don't go past the ARM processor CPER record buffer (CVE-2026-43266)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files (CVE-2026-43268)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ceph: supply snapshot context in ceph_zero_partial_object() (CVE-2026-43273)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    APEI/GHES: ensure that won't go past CPER allocated record (CVE-2026-43277)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    drm: Account property blob allocations to memcg (CVE-2026-43287)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    kexec: derive purgatory entry from symbol (CVE-2026-43289)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    dm: remove fake timeout to avoid leak request (CVE-2026-43314)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
312717	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-43268	Nessus	Misc.	medium
304608	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2026-115 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2026-115)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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