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

  - riscv: ftrace: Fixup panic by disabling preemption In RISCV, we must use an AUIPC + JALR pair to encode an     immediate, forming a jump that jumps to an address over 4K. This may cause errors if we want to enable     kernel preemption and remove dependency from patching code with stop_machine(). For example, if a task was     switched out on auipc. And, if we changed the ftrace function before it was switched back, then it would     jump to an address that has updated 11:0 bits mixing with previous XLEN:12 part. p: patched area performed     by dynamic ftrace ftrace_prologue: p| REG_S ra, -SZREG(sp) p| auipc ra, 0x? ------------> preempted ...
    change ftrace function ... p| jalr -?(ra) <------------- switched back p| REG_L ra, -SZREG(sp) func: xxx     ret (CVE-2023-53694)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53694

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Version 1.3 Jan 15, 2026, 2:04 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601151404
Version 1.2 Jan 13, 2026, 2:35 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601130235
Version 1.1 Nov 26, 2025, 1:15 PM New Plugin Feed: 202511261315