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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-79616

medium Nessus Plugin ID 350215

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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.

 - Out-of-bounds read while parsing untrusted SVG path strings in Qt Quick's Context2D.path / PathSvg.path.
 (CVE-2026-79616)

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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-79616

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-79616

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 350215

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_79616.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/25/2026

Updated: 9/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.43

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-79616

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.1

Threat Score: 0.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, 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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt6-declarative, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtdeclarative-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtdeclarative-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtdeclarative-examples, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtdeclarative-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtdeclarative, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt6-qtdeclarative-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt6-qtdeclarative-examples, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt6-qtdeclarative-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt6-qtdeclarative, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtdeclarative-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtdeclarative-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtdeclarative-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtdeclarative-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtdeclarative, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtdeclarative-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtdeclarative-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtdeclarative-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-qtdeclarative

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: 9/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-79616