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: Bluetooth: btusb: Fix potential NULL     dereference on kmalloc failure Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference by checking the return value of     kmalloc and handling allocation failure properly. (CVE-2025-38641)

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

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-38641

medium Nessus Plugin ID 260254

Version 1.8

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Version 1.8 Jul 18, 2026, 3:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202607181500
Version 1.7 Jun 28, 2026, 7:50 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202606280750
Version 1.6 Nov 21, 2025, 2:12 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 metadata Plugin Feed: 202511211412