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

  - fbcon: Make sure modelist not set on unregistered console It looks like attempting to write to the     store_modes sysfs node will run afoul of unregistered consoles: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in     drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:122:28 index -1 is out of range for type 'fb_info *[32]' ...
    fbcon_info_from_console+0x192/0x1a0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:122 fbcon_new_modelist+0xbf/0x2d0     drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:3048 fb_new_modelist+0x328/0x440 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:673     store_modes+0x1c9/0x3e0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c:113 dev_attr_store+0x55/0x80     drivers/base/core.c:2439 static struct fb_info *fbcon_registered_fb[FB_MAX]; ... static signed char     con2fb_map[MAX_NR_CONSOLES]; ... static struct fb_info *fbcon_info_from_console(int console) ... return     fbcon_registered_fb[con2fb_map[console]]; If con2fb_map contains a -1 things go wrong here. Instead,     return NULL, as callers of fbcon_info_from_console() are trying to compare against existing info     pointers, so error handling should kick in correctly. (CVE-2025-38198)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-38198

high Nessus Plugin ID 245618

Version 1.8

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Version 1.8 Oct 27, 2025, 3:15 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202510271515
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 22, 2025, 7:29 AM 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: 202508220729