In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: reject beacons with bad HE operation The HE operation element not only needs to be longer than the fixed part, but also have an appropriate size for the variable part inside of it. Check this.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The Rocky Linux 9.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1793370479 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: Fix buffer overflow in     debugfs If the user tries to write more than 32 bytes then it results in memory corruption. Fortunately,     this is debugfs so it's limited to root users. (CVE-2025-38317)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/pf: Clear all LMTT pages on     alloc Our LMEM buffer objects are not cleared by default on alloc and during VF provisioning we only setup     LMTT PTEs for the actually provisioned LMEM range. But beyond that valid range we might leave some stale     data that could either point to some other VFs allocations or even to the PF pages. Explicitly clear all     new LMTT page to avoid the risk that a malicious VF would try to exploit that gap. While around add     asserts to catch any undesired PTE overwrites and low-level debug traces to track LMTT PT life-cycle.
    (cherry picked from commit 3fae6918a3e27cce20ded2551f863fb05d4bef8d) (CVE-2025-38511)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in     ath12k_service_ready_ext_event Currently, in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event(), svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps is     not freed in the failure case, causing a memory leak. The following trace is observed in kmemleak:
    unreferenced object 0xffff8b3eb5789c00 (size 1024): comm softirq, pid 0, jiffies 4294942577 hex dump     (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7b 00 00 10 ............{... 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00     01 00 00 00 1f 38 00 00 .............8.. backtrace (crc 44e1c357): __kmalloc_noprof+0x30b/0x410     ath12k_wmi_mac_phy_caps_parse+0x84/0x100 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]     ath12k_wmi_svc_rdy_ext_parse+0x308/0x4c0 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]     ath12k_service_ready_ext_event.isra.0+0x44/0xd0 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x2eb/0xd70 [ath12k]     ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x1f4/0x330 [ath12k] ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x218/0x300 [ath12k]     ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x1b/0x30 [ath12k] process_one_work+0x219/0x680 bh_worker+0x198/0x1f0     tasklet_action+0x13/0x30 handle_softirqs+0xca/0x460 __irq_exit_rcu+0xbe/0x110 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 Free     svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps in the error case to fix this memory leak. Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI     WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 (CVE-2025-39890)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak
    __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6} Cilium has a BPF egress gateway feature which forces outgoing K8s Pod traffic     to pass through dedicated egress gateways which then SNAT the traffic in order to interact with stable IPs     outside the cluster. The traffic is directed to the gateway via vxlan tunnel in collect md mode. A recent     BPF change utilized the bpf_redirect_neigh() helper to forward packets after the arrival and decap on     vxlan, which turned out over time that the kmalloc-256 slab usage in kernel was ever-increasing. The issue     was that vxlan allocates the metadata_dst object and attaches it through a fake dst entry to the skb. The     latter was never released though given bpf_redirect_neigh() was merely setting the new dst entry via     skb_dst_set() without dropping an existing one first. (CVE-2025-40183)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix neighbour     use-after-free We sometimes observe use-after-free when dereferencing a neighbour [1]. The problem seems     to be that the driver stores a pointer to the neighbour, but without holding a reference on it. A     reference is only taken when the neighbour is used by a nexthop. Fix by simplifying the reference counting     scheme. Always take a reference when storing a neighbour pointer in a neighbour entry. Avoid taking a     referencing when the neighbour is used by a nexthop as the neighbour entry associated with the nexthop     already holds a reference. Tested by running the test that uncovered the problem over 300 times. Without     this patch the problem was reproduced after a handful of iterations. [1] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free     in mlxsw_sp_neigh_entry_update+0x2d4/0x310 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88817f8e3420 by task ip/3929 CPU: 3     UID: 0 PID: 3929 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4-virtme-g36b21a067510 #3 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name:
    Nvidia SN5600/VMOD0013, BIOS 5.13 05/31/2023 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xa0     print_address_description.constprop.0+0x6e/0x300 print_report+0xfc/0x1fb kasan_report+0xe4/0x110     mlxsw_sp_neigh_entry_update+0x2d4/0x310 mlxsw_sp_router_rif_gone_sync+0x35f/0x510     mlxsw_sp_rif_destroy+0x1ea/0x730 mlxsw_sp_inetaddr_port_vlan_event+0xa1/0x1b0
    __mlxsw_sp_inetaddr_lag_event+0xcc/0x130 __mlxsw_sp_inetaddr_event+0xf5/0x3c0     mlxsw_sp_router_netdevice_event+0x1015/0x1580 notifier_call_chain+0xcc/0x150     call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x7e/0x100 __netdev_upper_dev_unlink+0x10b/0x210     netdev_upper_dev_unlink+0x79/0xa0 vrf_del_slave+0x18/0x50 do_set_master+0x146/0x7d0     do_setlink.isra.0+0x9a0/0x2880 rtnl_newlink+0x637/0xb20 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x6fe/0xb90     netlink_rcv_skb+0x123/0x380 netlink_unicast+0x4a3/0x770 netlink_sendmsg+0x75b/0xc90
    __sock_sendmsg+0xbe/0x160 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5b2/0x7d0 ___sys_sendmsg+0xfd/0x180 __sys_sendmsg+0x124/0x1c0     do_syscall_64+0xbb/0xfd0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 [...] Allocated by task 109:
    kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_kmalloc+0x7b/0x90
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x2c1/0x790 neigh_alloc+0x6af/0x8f0 ___neigh_create+0x63/0xe90     mlxsw_sp_nexthop_neigh_init+0x430/0x7e0 mlxsw_sp_nexthop_type_init+0x212/0x960     mlxsw_sp_nexthop6_group_info_init.constprop.0+0x81f/0x1280 mlxsw_sp_nexthop6_group_get+0x392/0x6a0     mlxsw_sp_fib6_entry_create+0x46a/0xfd0 mlxsw_sp_router_fib6_replace+0x1ed/0x5f0     mlxsw_sp_router_fib6_event_work+0x10a/0x2a0 process_one_work+0xd57/0x1390 worker_thread+0x4d6/0xd40     kthread+0x355/0x5b0 ret_from_fork+0x1d4/0x270 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 Freed by task 154:
    kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
    __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kmem_cache_free_bulk.part.0+0x1eb/0x5e0 kvfree_rcu_bulk+0x1f2/0x260     kfree_rcu_work+0x130/0x1b0 process_one_work+0xd57/0x1390 worker_thread+0x4d6/0xd40 kthread+0x355/0x5b0     ret_from_fork+0x1d4/0x270 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 Last potentially related work creation:
    kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kasan_record_aux_stack+0x8c/0xa0 kvfree_call_rcu+0x93/0x5b0     mlxsw_sp_router_neigh_event_work+0x67d/0x860 process_one_work+0xd57/0x1390 worker_thread+0x4d6/0xd40     kthread+0x355/0x5b0 ret_from_fork+0x1d4/0x270 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 (CVE-2025-68801)

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

The AlmaLinux 9.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1793370479 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: Fix buffer overflow in     debugfs If the user tries to write more than 32 bytes then it results in memory corruption. Fortunately,     this is debugfs so it's limited to root users. (CVE-2025-38317)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/pf: Clear all LMTT pages on     alloc Our LMEM buffer objects are not cleared by default on alloc and during VF provisioning we only setup     LMTT PTEs for the actually provisioned LMEM range. But beyond that valid range we might leave some stale     data that could either point to some other VFs allocations or even to the PF pages. Explicitly clear all     new LMTT page to avoid the risk that a malicious VF would try to exploit that gap. While around add     asserts to catch any undesired PTE overwrites and low-level debug traces to track LMTT PT life-cycle.
    (cherry picked from commit 3fae6918a3e27cce20ded2551f863fb05d4bef8d) (CVE-2025-38511)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in     ath12k_service_ready_ext_event Currently, in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event(), svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps is     not freed in the failure case, causing a memory leak. The following trace is observed in kmemleak:
    unreferenced object 0xffff8b3eb5789c00 (size 1024): comm softirq, pid 0, jiffies 4294942577 hex dump     (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7b 00 00 10 ............{... 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00     01 00 00 00 1f 38 00 00 .............8.. backtrace (crc 44e1c357): __kmalloc_noprof+0x30b/0x410     ath12k_wmi_mac_phy_caps_parse+0x84/0x100 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]     ath12k_wmi_svc_rdy_ext_parse+0x308/0x4c0 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]     ath12k_service_ready_ext_event.isra.0+0x44/0xd0 [ath12k] ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x2eb/0xd70 [ath12k]     ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x1f4/0x330 [ath12k] ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x218/0x300 [ath12k]     ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x1b/0x30 [ath12k] process_one_work+0x219/0x680 bh_worker+0x198/0x1f0     tasklet_action+0x13/0x30 handle_softirqs+0xca/0x460 __irq_exit_rcu+0xbe/0x110 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 Free     svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps in the error case to fix this memory leak. Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI     WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 (CVE-2025-39890)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak
    __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6} Cilium has a BPF egress gateway feature which forces outgoing K8s Pod traffic     to pass through dedicated egress gateways which then SNAT the traffic in order to interact with stable IPs     outside the cluster. The traffic is directed to the gateway via vxlan tunnel in collect md mode. A recent     BPF change utilized the bpf_redirect_neigh() helper to forward packets after the arrival and decap on     vxlan, which turned out over time that the kmalloc-256 slab usage in kernel was ever-increasing. The issue     was that vxlan allocates the metadata_dst object and attaches it through a fake dst entry to the skb. The     latter was never released though given bpf_redirect_neigh() was merely setting the new dst entry via     skb_dst_set() without dropping an existing one first. (CVE-2025-40183)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix neighbour     use-after-free We sometimes observe use-after-free when dereferencing a neighbour [1]. The problem seems     to be that the driver stores a pointer to the neighbour, but without holding a reference on it. A     reference is only taken when the neighbour is used by a nexthop. Fix by simplifying the reference counting     scheme. Always take a reference when storing a neighbour pointer in a neighbour entry. Avoid taking a     referencing when the neighbour is used by a nexthop as the neighbour entry associated with the nexthop     already holds a reference. Tested by running the test that uncovered the problem over 300 times. Without     this patch the problem was reproduced after a handful of iterations. [1] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free     in mlxsw_sp_neigh_entry_update+0x2d4/0x310 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88817f8e3420 by task ip/3929 CPU: 3     UID: 0 PID: 3929 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4-virtme-g36b21a067510 #3 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name:
    Nvidia SN5600/VMOD0013, BIOS 5.13 05/31/2023 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xa0     print_address_description.constprop.0+0x6e/0x300 print_report+0xfc/0x1fb kasan_report+0xe4/0x110     mlxsw_sp_neigh_entry_update+0x2d4/0x310 mlxsw_sp_router_rif_gone_sync+0x35f/0x510     mlxsw_sp_rif_destroy+0x1ea/0x730 mlxsw_sp_inetaddr_port_vlan_event+0xa1/0x1b0
    __mlxsw_sp_inetaddr_lag_event+0xcc/0x130 __mlxsw_sp_inetaddr_event+0xf5/0x3c0     mlxsw_sp_router_netdevice_event+0x1015/0x1580 notifier_call_chain+0xcc/0x150     call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x7e/0x100 __netdev_upper_dev_unlink+0x10b/0x210     netdev_upper_dev_unlink+0x79/0xa0 vrf_del_slave+0x18/0x50 do_set_master+0x146/0x7d0     do_setlink.isra.0+0x9a0/0x2880 rtnl_newlink+0x637/0xb20 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x6fe/0xb90     netlink_rcv_skb+0x123/0x380 netlink_unicast+0x4a3/0x770 netlink_sendmsg+0x75b/0xc90
    __sock_sendmsg+0xbe/0x160 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5b2/0x7d0 ___sys_sendmsg+0xfd/0x180 __sys_sendmsg+0x124/0x1c0     do_syscall_64+0xbb/0xfd0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 [...] Allocated by task 109:
    kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_kmalloc+0x7b/0x90
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x2c1/0x790 neigh_alloc+0x6af/0x8f0 ___neigh_create+0x63/0xe90     mlxsw_sp_nexthop_neigh_init+0x430/0x7e0 mlxsw_sp_nexthop_type_init+0x212/0x960     mlxsw_sp_nexthop6_group_info_init.constprop.0+0x81f/0x1280 mlxsw_sp_nexthop6_group_get+0x392/0x6a0     mlxsw_sp_fib6_entry_create+0x46a/0xfd0 mlxsw_sp_router_fib6_replace+0x1ed/0x5f0     mlxsw_sp_router_fib6_event_work+0x10a/0x2a0 process_one_work+0xd57/0x1390 worker_thread+0x4d6/0xd40     kthread+0x355/0x5b0 ret_from_fork+0x1d4/0x270 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 Freed by task 154:
    kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
    __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kmem_cache_free_bulk.part.0+0x1eb/0x5e0 kvfree_rcu_bulk+0x1f2/0x260     kfree_rcu_work+0x130/0x1b0 process_one_work+0xd57/0x1390 worker_thread+0x4d6/0xd40 kthread+0x355/0x5b0     ret_from_fork+0x1d4/0x270 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 Last potentially related work creation:
    kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 kasan_record_aux_stack+0x8c/0xa0 kvfree_call_rcu+0x93/0x5b0     mlxsw_sp_router_neigh_event_work+0x67d/0x860 process_one_work+0xd57/0x1390 worker_thread+0x4d6/0xd40     kthread+0x355/0x5b0 ret_from_fork+0x1d4/0x270 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 (CVE-2025-68801)

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

The CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS-STREAM8:CLSA-2026:1793362651 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: fix use-after-free in     gfs2_qd_dealloc gfs2_qd_dealloc(), called as an RCU callback from gfs2_qd_dispose(), accesses the     superblock object sdp through qd->qd_sbd after freeing qd. It does so to decrement sd_quota_count and wake     up sd_kill_wait. However, by the time the RCU callback runs, gfs2_put_super() may have already freed sdp     via free_sbd(). This can happen when gfs2_quota_cleanup() is called during unmount: it disposes of quota     objects via call_rcu() and then waits on sd_kill_wait with a 60-second timeout. If the timeout expires, or     if gfs2_gl_hash_clear() triggers additional qd_put() calls that schedule more RCU callbacks after the wait     completes, gfs2_put_super() will proceed to free the superblock while RCU callbacks referencing it are     still pending. Add an rcu_barrier() before free_sbd() in gfs2_put_super() to ensure all pending RCU     callbacks (including gfs2_qd_dealloc) have completed before the superblock is freed. (CVE-2026-63804)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: tcpm: Validate SVID index     in svdm_consume_modes() In svdm_consume_modes(), the SVID value is read from pmdata->svids using     pmdata->svid_index as an array index without bounds validation: paltmode->svid =     pmdata->svids[pmdata->svid_index]; If pmdata->svid_index is driven beyond SVID_DISCOVERY_MAX (16), it     results in an out-of-bounds read of the pmdata->svids array. Because pd_mode_data is embedded inside     struct tcpm_port, indexing past svids reads into adjacent fields. In particular: - At index 16, it reads     the altmodes count. - At index 18 and beyond, it reads into altmode_desc[], which contains partner-     supplied SVDM Discovery Modes VDOs. By injecting a chosen SVID into altmode_desc[0].vdo and driving     svid_index to 20, the partner can force paltmode->svid to be loaded with an arbitrary, partner- chosen     SVID, which is then registered via typec_partner_register_altmode(). Fix this by validating that     pmdata->svid_index is non-negative and strictly less than pmdata->nsvids before accessing the     pmdata->svids array inside svdm_consume_modes(). (CVE-2026-64330)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: hold event_mutex while     checkpointing CRIU events kfd_criu_checkpoint_events() counts the entries in p->event_idr via     kfd_get_num_events(), allocates an array sized to that count, and then walks the same IDR to fill it.
    Neither the count nor the walk holds p->event_mutex. The CRIU checkpoint caller holds only p->mutex. Event     create and destroy (kfd_event_create()/kfd_event_destroy()) take p->event_mutex and do not take p->mutex,     so a second thread in the same process can insert or remove events between the count and the walk. If an     event is inserted, the walk iterates more entries than were counted and writes past the end of the     ev_privs allocation; if an event is removed, the walk dereferences an entry that is being freed. Hold     p->event_mutex across the count and the walk so both observe a consistent view of p->event_idr. The lock     is released before copy_to_user(), which only touches the local buffer. The caller already holds p->mutex     and the create/destroy paths never take p->mutex, so the p->mutex -> p->event_mutex order is not inverted     and no deadlock is introduced. (cherry picked from commit ff57e223ab105795b05d3ef3f3c35a5a441bcbaa)     (CVE-2026-74446)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fix potential UAF on     meter attach failure While attaching a newly created meter attach_meter() function makes the new meter     visible to other CPUs but can still fail afterwards. On failure, it detaches the meter back and returns an     error. However, this is an unexpected behavior for the ovs_meter_cmd_set() that uses a plain kfree(meter)     on attach failure without waiting for RCU readers to stop using it, assuming it was never visible. This is     never a problem for ovs-vswitchd as it always creates meters before creating any flows that use them. But     the UAF can be triggered with a custom application using uAPI: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in     ovs_meter_execute (net/openvswitch/meter.c:653) Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810d152650 by task meter/2508     Call Trace: ovs_meter_execute (net/openvswitch/meter.c:653) do_execute_actions     (net/openvswitch/actions.c:1407) ovs_execute_actions (net/openvswitch/actions.c:1584)     ovs_packet_cmd_execute (net/openvswitch/datapath.c:703) ... netlink_sendmsg (af_netlink.c:1900) Allocated     by task 2519: __kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:398 mm/kasan/common.c:415) ovs_meter_cmd_set     (net/openvswitch/meter.c:422) ... netlink_sendmsg (af_netlink.c:1900) Freed by task 2519: kfree     (mm/slub.c:2705 mm/slub.c:6405 mm/slub.c:6720) ovs_meter_cmd_set (net/openvswitch/meter.c:479) ...
    netlink_sendmsg (af_netlink.c:1900) Fix that by making sure attach_meter() doesn't make the meter visible     until all the checks are done and the function can't fail anymore. This also makes sure the hash value     is calculated after the potential re-sizing of the table. Reported by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative as     ZDI-CAN-31642. (CVE-2026-74465)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_reporting: use     system_freezable_wq to fix UAF during suspend During PM freeze (e.g. S3 suspend or S4 hibernation), device     drivers like virtio_balloon reset their underlying virtio devices and delete their virtqueues via     vdev->config->del_vqs(). However, page reporting work (page_reporting_process) was scheduled on the global     system_wq. Because system_wq lacks the WQ_FREEZABLE flag, the PM freezer skips it, leaving     page_reporting_process active during suspend. If pages are freed into the buddy allocator while suspending     (for example, when core MM invokes the balloon shrinker during S4 hibernation image saving), page     reporting triggers virtballoon_free_page_report() on deleted virtqueues, resulting in a Use-After-Free /     General Protection Fault: [ 196.795226] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address     0xaa1436fe70dae6df: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 196.825967] Workqueue: events page_reporting_process [     196.831038] RIP: 0010:virtqueue_add_split+0x233/0x4c0 [virtio_ring] [ 196.927073]     virtballoon_free_page_report+0x3a/0xe0 [virtio_balloon] [ 196.946943] page_reporting_process+0x370/0x4f0     Fix this by switching page reporting work to system_freezable_wq. This ensures that the PM freezer pauses     page_reporting_process before device drivers destroy their reporting virtqueues. Because the reporting     worker is frozen, memory reclamation/freeing (e.g. via shrinker execution) can safely return pages to MM     during freeze without triggering unfrozen reporting work on deleted virtqueues. This aligns with the     driver's existing design. The comment in virtballoon_freeze() states: /* * The workqueue is already frozen     by the PM core before this * function is called. */ Testing: I have verified these fixes using Google's     virtualization infrastructure by running continuous suspend/resume iterations (40+ cycles) while churning     memory using stress-ng (`stress-ng --vm 4 --vm-bytes 60% --timeout 1`) to constantly create free pages for     the buddy allocator. We also set the `page_reporting_order` parameter to 0 to make the page reporting     worker highly sensitive, forcing it to pick up any 4K free pages. This confirmed that the UAF crashes are     no longer reproducible. (CVE-2026-74481)

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

The AlmaLinux 9.2 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1791741836 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: fix hung thread due to     erroneous iotlb entries In vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx(), range size can overflow to 0 when start is 0 and     last is ULONG_MAX. One instance where it can happen is when userspace sends an IOTLB message with     iova=size=uaddr=0 (vhost_process_iotlb_msg). So, an entry with size = 0, start = 0, last = ULONG_MAX ends     up in the iotlb. Next time a packet is sent, iotlb_access_ok() loops indefinitely due to that erroneous     entry. Call Trace: <TASK> iotlb_access_ok+0x21b/0x3e0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1340     vq_meta_prefetch+0xbc/0x280 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1366 vhost_transport_do_send_pkt+0xe0/0xfd0     drivers/vhost/vsock.c:104 vhost_worker+0x23d/0x3d0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:372 kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0     kernel/kthread.c:377 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295 </TASK> Reported by syzbot at:
    https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0abd373e2e50d704db87 To fix this, do two things: 1. Return -EINVAL     in vhost_chr_write_iter() when userspace asks to map a range with size 0. 2. Fix     vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx() to handle the range [0, ULONG_MAX] by splitting it into two entries.
    (CVE-2022-48862)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hns3: add vlan list lock to     protect vlan list When adding port base VLAN, vf VLAN need to remove from HW and modify the vlan state in     vf VLAN list as false. If the periodicity task is freeing the same node, it may cause use after free     error. This patch adds a vlan list lock to protect the vlan list. (CVE-2022-49182)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/amd: Fix crash due to race     between amd_pmu_enable_all, perf NMI and throttling amd_pmu_enable_all() does: if (!test_bit(idx,     cpuc->active_mask)) continue; amd_pmu_enable_event(cpuc->events[idx]); A perf NMI of another event can     come between these two steps. Perf NMI handler internally disables and enables _all_ events, including the     one which nmi-intercepted amd_pmu_enable_all() was in process of enabling. If that unintentionally enabled     event has very low sampling period and causes immediate successive NMI, causing the event to be throttled,     cpuc->events[idx] and cpuc->active_mask gets cleared by x86_pmu_stop(). This will result in     amd_pmu_enable_event() getting called with event=NULL when amd_pmu_enable_all() resumes after handling the     NMIs. This causes a kernel crash: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000198 #PF:
    supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [...] Call Trace: <TASK>     amd_pmu_enable_all+0x68/0xb0 ctx_resched+0xd9/0x150 event_function+0xb8/0x130 ?     hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x141/0x4a0 ? perf_duration_warn+0x30/0x30 remote_function+0x4d/0x60
    __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0xc4/0x500 flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x11d/0x1b0 do_idle+0x18f/0x2d0     cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20 start_secondary+0x121/0x160 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe5/0xeb </TASK>     amd_pmu_disable_all()/amd_pmu_enable_all() calls inside perf NMI handler were recently added as part of     BRS enablement but I'm not sure whether we really need them. We can just disable BRS in the beginning and     enable it back while returning from NMI. This will solve the issue by not enabling those events whose     active_masks are set but are not yet enabled in hw pmu. (CVE-2022-49781)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-iolatency: Fix memory leak on     add_disk() failures When a gendisk is successfully initialized but add_disk() fails such as when a loop     device has invalid number of minor device numbers specified, blkcg_init_disk() is called during init and     then blkcg_exit_disk() during error handling. Unfortunately, iolatency gets initialized in the former but     doesn't get cleaned up in the latter. This is because, in non-error cases, the cleanup is performed by     del_gendisk() calling rq_qos_exit(), the assumption being that rq_qos policies, iolatency being one of     them, can only be activated once the disk is fully registered and visible. That assumption is true for wbt     and iocost, but not so for iolatency as it gets initialized before add_disk() is called. It is desirable     to lazy-init rq_qos policies because they are optional features and add to hot path overhead once     initialized - each IO has to walk all the registered rq_qos policies. So, we want to switch iolatency to     lazy init too. However, that's a bigger change. As a fix for the immediate problem, let's just add an     extra call to rq_qos_exit() in blkcg_exit_disk(). This is safe because duplicate calls to rq_qos_exit()     become noop's. (CVE-2022-50550)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i40e: Do not allow untrusted VF to     remove administratively set MAC Currently when PF administratively sets VF's MAC address and the VF is put     down (VF tries to delete all MACs) then the MAC is removed from MAC filters and primary VF MAC is zeroed.
    Do not allow untrusted VF to remove primary MAC when it was set administratively by PF. Reproducer: 1)     Create VF 2) Set VF interface up 3) Administratively set the VF's MAC 4) Put VF interface down [root@host     ~]# echo 1 > /sys/class/net/enp2s0f0/device/sriov_numvfs [root@host ~]# ip link set enp2s0f0v0 up     [root@host ~]# ip link set enp2s0f0 vf 0 mac fe:6c:b5:da:c7:7d [root@host ~]# ip link show enp2s0f0 23:
    enp2s0f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen     1000 link/ether 3c:ec:ef:b7:dd:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff vf 0 link/ether fe:6c:b5:da:c7:7d brd     ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off [root@host ~]# ip link set enp2s0f0v0     down [root@host ~]# ip link show enp2s0f0 23: enp2s0f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc     mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 3c:ec:ef:b7:dd:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff vf 0     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off     (CVE-2024-26830)

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.

  - wifi: nl80211: reject beacons with bad HE operation The HE operation element not only needs to be longer     than the fixed part, but also have an appropriate size for the variable part inside of it. Check this.
    (CVE-2026-97517)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
376443	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8959-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
376285	SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical
375113	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2026-5.0-91-1014	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high
375014	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2026-5.0-92-1014	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high
374957	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2026-5.0-90-1034	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high
374300	Rocky Linux 9.6 [TuxCare] Security Update: kernel / kernel-64k / kernel-64k-core / kernel-64k-debug / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1793370479)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
374299	AlmaLinux 9.6 [TuxCare] Security Update: kernel / kernel-64k / kernel-64k-core / kernel-64k-debug / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1793370479)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
374204	CentOS Linux 8 [TuxCare] Security Update: bpftool / kernel / kernel-core / kernel-cross-headers / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (CENTOS-STREAM8:CLSA-2026:1793362651)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	Local	high
366919	Debian dla-4841 : ata-modules-6.1.0-53-armmp-di - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
364688	AlmaLinux 9.2 [TuxCare] Security Update: bpftool / kernel / kernel-64k / kernel-64k-core / kernel-64k-debug / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1791741836)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
364137	Oracle Linux 10 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2026-500374)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
362907	Debian dla-4817 : ata-modules-6.12.107+deb12-armmp-di - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
351155	Debian dsa-6528 : ata-modules-6.12.111+deb13-armmp-di - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
350061	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-97517	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high

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