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: power: supply: fix null pointer     dereferencing in power_supply_get_battery_info when kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(),     propname will be NULL, strcmp() called by of_get_property() will cause null pointer dereference. So return     ENOMEM if kasprintf() return NULL pointer. (CVE-2022-50276)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50276

medium Nessus Plugin ID 264921

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Version 1.5 Sep 30, 2025, 5:08 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509301708
Version 1.4 Sep 30, 2025, 12:41 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509300041
Version 1.3 Sep 20, 2025, 5:27 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509200527
Version 1.2 Sep 17, 2025, 9:14 AM New Plugin Feed: 202509170914