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: drm/xe/vf: Don't expose sysfs     attributes not applicable for VFs VFs can't read BMG_PCIE_CAP(0x138340) register nor access PCODE (already     guarded by the info.skip_pcode flag) so we shouldn't expose attributes that require any of them to avoid     errors like: [] xe 0000:03:00.1: [drm] Tile0: GT0: VF is trying to read an \ inaccessible register     0x138340+0x0 [] RIP: 0010:xe_gt_sriov_vf_read32+0x6c2/0x9a0 [xe] [] Call Trace: []     xe_mmio_read32+0x110/0x280 [xe] [] auto_link_downgrade_capable_show+0x2e/0x70 [xe] []     dev_attr_show+0x1a/0x70 [] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xaa/0x120 [] kernfs_seq_show+0x41/0x60 (cherry picked from     commit a2d6223d224f333f705ed8495bf8bebfbc585c35) (CVE-2025-40023)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40023

medium Nessus Plugin ID 271854

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Version 1.4 Nov 3, 2025, 9:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202511032125
Version 1.3 Oct 31, 2025, 8:07 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202510312007
Version 1.2 Oct 29, 2025, 12:22 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202510291222
Version 1.1 Oct 29, 2025, 3:03 AM New Plugin Feed: 202510290303