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

  - mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied     subsection of an early section, section_activate() reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However,     compound_nr_pages() still assumes that vmemmap optimization is in effect and initializes only the reduced     number of struct pages. As a result, the remaining tail struct pages are left uninitialized, which can     later lead to unexpected behavior or crashes. Fix this by treating early sections as unoptimized when     calculating how many struct pages to initialize. (CVE-2026-72172)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
341880	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool6.18, kernel6.18, kernel6.18-devel (ALAS2023-2026-2071)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	8/31/2026	9/1/2026	medium
334784	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2026-5.0-92-0952	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	8/12/2026	9/4/2026	high
343049	Oracle Linux 10 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2026-500248)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	9/4/2026	9/5/2026	high
335554	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72172	Nessus	Misc.	8/15/2026	8/28/2026	high
337239	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool6.12, kernel6.12, kernel6.12-devel (ALAS2023-2026-2057)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	8/18/2026	9/1/2026	medium

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