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

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak As     the comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a PCI device with refcount incremented, when     finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put(). In     ixgbe_get_first_secondary_devfn() and ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(), pci_dev_put() is called to avoid leak.
    (CVE-2022-48896)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-48896

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Version 1.7 Oct 27, 2025, 3:15 PM 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: 202510271515
Version 1.4 Sep 14, 2025, 2:50 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509141450
Version 1.3 Sep 5, 2025, 4:38 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: 202509051638
Version 1.2 Sep 2, 2025, 6:30 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: 202509020630
Version 1.1 Aug 15, 2025, 7:38 PM New Plugin Feed: 202508151938