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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-68291

critical Nessus Plugin ID 334408

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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

 - idpf: fix max_vport related crash on allocation error during init Set adapter->max_vports only after successful allocation of vports, netdevs and vport_config buffers. This fixes possible crashes on reset or rmmod, following failed allocation on init [ 305.981402] idpf 0000:83:00.0: enabling device (0100 -> 0102) [ 305.994464] idpf 0000:83:00.0: Device HW Reset initiated [ 320.416872] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 320.416918] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 320.416942] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 320.416963] PGD 2099657067 P4D 0 [ 320.416983] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... [ 320.417093] RIP: 0010:idpf_remove+0x118/0x200 [idpf] [ 320.417130] Code: 8b bb 98 09 00 00 e8 17 0f 5b e5 48 8b bb e8 08 00 00 e8 0b 0f 5b e5 66 83 bb 28 06 00 00 00 48 8b bb 20 06 00 00 74 49 31 ed <48> 8b 04 ef 48 85 c0 74 2f 48 8b 78 20 e8 66 58 91 e5 48 8b 83 20 [ 320.417183] RSP: 0018:ff7322212903fdb8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 320.417205] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX:
 ff4463de40300000 RCX: ff7322212903fd4c [ 320.417228] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffffa7f7d100 RDI:
 0000000000000000 [ 320.417250] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 320.417272] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ff4463de3a638f58 R12: ff4463be89ac7000 [ 320.417294] R13:
 ff4463be89ac7198 R14: ff4463be94fc7198 R15: ffffffffc0f10f20 [ 320.417317] FS: 00007f963c0e6740(0000) GS:ff4463fdd65d8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 320.417342] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
 0000000080050033 [ 320.417362] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000020ba674002 CR4: 0000000000773ef0 [ 320.417385] PKRU: 55555554 [ 320.417398] Call Trace: [ 320.417412] <TASK> [ 320.417429] pci_device_remove+0x42/0xb0 [ 320.417459] device_release_driver_internal+0x1a9/0x210 [ 320.417492] driver_detach+0x4b/0x90 [ 320.417516] bus_remove_driver+0x70/0x100 [ 320.417539] pci_unregister_driver+0x2e/0xb0 [ 320.417564] __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x190/0x2f0 [ 320.417592] ? kmem_cache_free+0x31e/0x550 [ 320.417619] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xde/0x190 [ 320.417644] ? do_syscall_64+0x38/0x6b0 [ 320.417665] do_syscall_64+0xc8/0x6b0 [ 320.417683] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80 [ 320.417706] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 320.417727] RIP: 0033:0x7f963bb30beb (CVE-2026-68291)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-68291

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 334408

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_68291.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/10/2026

Updated: 8/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.75

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-68291

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-68291