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

  - dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference:
    dmsetup create flakey --table \ 0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2     corrupt_bio_byte 512 Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.
    (CVE-2023-53786)

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

Detections

Analytics

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53786

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278102

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.7 Jan 30, 2026, 9:16 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601300916
Version 1.6 Jan 21, 2026, 10:50 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601211050
Version 1.5 Jan 15, 2026, 2:04 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601151404
Version 1.4 Jan 10, 2026, 7:58 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601101958
Version 1.3 Dec 17, 2025, 4:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202512171656
Version 1.2 Dec 12, 2025, 5:16 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 4.9) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2023-53786, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202512121716
Version 1.1 Dec 11, 2025, 12:59 PM New Plugin Feed: 202512111259