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

  - fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path syzbot reported kmemleak as below: BUG: memory     leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32): comm a.out, pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age     25.500s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00     00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81b16052>]     ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8164aaa7>] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430 [<ffffffff81626dd4>]     path_mount+0x704/0x1080 [<ffffffff81627e7c>] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0 [<ffffffff84593e14>]     do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This patch fixes     this issue by freeing mount options on error path of ntfs_fill_super(). (CVE-2022-50451)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50451

medium Nessus Plugin ID 269549

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Version 1.7 Jun 17, 2026, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202606171425
Version 1.5 May 15, 2026, 12:01 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202605151201
Version 1.3 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 metadata Plugin Feed: 202510271515