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

  - A vulnerability in OpenOffice's PPT file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in PPTStyleSheet, allows     attackers to craft malicious documents that cause denial of service (memory corruption and application     crash) potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-12607)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-12607

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Version 1.3 Aug 4, 2026, 2:26 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:U/RL:U/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202608040226
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