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

  - crypto: bcm - add error check in the ahash_hmac_init function The ahash_init functions may return fails.
    The ahash_hmac_init should not return ok when ahash_init returns error. For an example, ahash_init will     return -ENOMEM when allocation memory is error. (CVE-2024-56681)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-56681

medium Nessus Plugin ID 231448

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Version 1.3 Sep 1, 2025, 10:01 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509012201
Version 1.2 Aug 13, 2025, 7:42 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 5.6) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 5.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202508131942
Version 1.1 Mar 6, 2025, 5:02 PM New Plugin Feed: 202503061702