In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: gso: limit recursive IP-in-IP segmentation IP-in-IP GSO can re-enter inet_gso_segment() or ipv6_gso_segment() for each nested IP header. encap_level tracks header bytes, not callback depth, so a deep chain can exhaust the kernel stack. Making inet_gso_segment() stackable introduced unbounded IPv4 nesting; IPIP GSO/TSO later made the path reachable. The IPv6 stackable path was introduced separately and uses the same guard. Count IPv4 and IPv6 GSO handler entries in skb_gso_cb, initialized once per top-level GSO operation and preserved across GRE/UDP context changes. Use the existing IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT for both handlers. The first five entries pass, and the sixth returns -EINVAL before dispatching another GSO callback.

The AlmaLinux 9.2 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1793786843 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: qcom: qmi_encdec: Restrict string     length in decode The QMI TLV value for strings in a lot of qmi element info structures account for null     terminated strings with MAX_LEN + 1. If a string is actually MAX_LEN + 1 length, this will cause an out of     bounds access when the NULL character is appended in decoding. (CVE-2023-53729)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rv: Use strings in da monitors     tracepoints Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following warning: BUG: KASAN:
    global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 Read of size 32 at addr     ffffffffaada8980 by task ... Call Trace: <TASK> [...] do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0     ? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10 ? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200     trace_event_sncid+0x163/0x200 [...] The buggy address belongs to the variable: automaton_snep+0x4e0/0x5e0     This is caused by the tracepoints reading 32 bytes __array instead of __string from the automata     definition. Such strings are literals and reading 32 bytes ends up in out of bound memory accesses (e.g.
    the next automaton's data in this case). The error is harmless as, while printing the string, we stop at     the null terminator, but it should still be fixed. Use the __string facilities while defining the     tracepoints to avoid reading out of bound memory. (CVE-2025-38636)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in     PERF_IDX2OFF() Cast nr_pages to unsigned long to avoid overflow when handling large AUX buffer sizes (>= 2     GiB). (CVE-2025-40081)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arch_topology: Fix incorrect error     check in topology_parse_cpu_capacity() Fix incorrect use of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() in     topology_parse_cpu_capacity() which causes the code to proceed with NULL clock pointers. The current logic     uses !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) which evaluates to true for both valid pointers and NULL, leading to     potential NULL pointer dereference in clk_get_rate(). Per include/linux/err.h documentation,     PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(ptr) returns: The error code within @ptr if it is an error pointer; 0 otherwise. This     means PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() returns 0 for both valid pointers AND NULL pointers. Therefore     !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) evaluates to true (proceed) when cpu_clk is either valid or NULL, causing     clk_get_rate(NULL) to be called when of_clk_get() returns NULL. Replace with !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cpu_clk)     which only proceeds for valid pointers, preventing potential NULL pointer dereference in clk_get_rate().
    (CVE-2025-40346)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add support for     Van Gogh SoC The ROG Xbox Ally (non-X) SoC features a similar architecture to the Steam Deck. While the     Steam Deck supports S3 (s2idle causes a crash), this support was dropped by the Xbox Ally which only S0ix     suspend. Since the handler is missing here, this causes the device to not suspend and the AMD GPU driver     to crash while trying to resume afterwards due to a power hang. (CVE-2025-68334)

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.

  - net: gso: limit recursive IP-in-IP segmentation IP-in-IP GSO can re-enter inet_gso_segment() or     ipv6_gso_segment() for each nested IP header. encap_level tracks header bytes, not callback depth, so a     deep chain can exhaust the kernel stack. Making inet_gso_segment() stackable introduced unbounded IPv4     nesting; IPIP GSO/TSO later made the path reachable. The IPv6 stackable path was introduced separately and     uses the same guard. Count IPv4 and IPv6 GSO handler entries in skb_gso_cb, initialized once per top-level     GSO operation and preserved across GRE/UDP context changes. Use the existing IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT for     both handlers. The first five entries pass, and the sixth returns -EINVAL before dispatching another GSO     callback. (CVE-2026-98853)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
376201	AlmaLinux 9.2 [TuxCare] Security Update: bpftool / kernel / kernel-64k / kernel-64k-core / kernel-64k-debug / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1793786843)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
367035	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-98853	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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