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

  - RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put() Since nldev_deldev() (introduced by     commit 060c642b2ab8 (RDMA/nldev: Add support to add/delete a sub IB device through netlink) grabs a     reference using ib_device_get_by_index() before calling ib_del_sub_device_and_put(), we need to drop that     reference before returning -EOPNOTSUPP error. (CVE-2025-71157)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-71157

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Version 1.2 Jan 24, 2026, 9:30 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") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2025-71157, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601242130
Version 1.1 Jan 23, 2026, 11:44 PM New Plugin Feed: 202601232344