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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-26416

critical Nessus Plugin ID 358441

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.

 - In initializeSwizzler of SkBmpStandardCodec.cpp, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a heap buffer overflow. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. (CVE-2025-26416)

 - An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the System component of Android. (CVE-2025-26416)

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-2025-26416

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 358441

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_26416.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-26416

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:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:webkit2gtk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wpewebkit

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: 4/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-26416