Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-84270

medium Nessus Plugin ID 342192

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.

- A flaw was found in the MTP backend in gvfs. When reading a file from a mounted MTP device, do_read() in gvfsbackendmtp.c trusts the data length returned by the device without limiting it to the original size requested by the client. If a malicious MTP device responds with more bytes than requested, this unrestricted length is passed directly to memcpy(). This causes the operation to read memory outside the intended boundaries. This allows an attacker who plugs in a malicious MTP device to cause a segmentation fault when a file is read and crash the gvfsd-mtp process, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2026-84270)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 342192

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_84270.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/1/2026

Updated: 9/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-84270

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-afc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-afp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-archive, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-fuse, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-goa, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-gphoto2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-mtp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-smb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs-tests, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-afc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-afp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-archive, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-fuse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-goa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-gphoto2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-mtp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-smb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvfs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-84270

Detections

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