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

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from     kmemleak in put_page_bootmem The vmemmap pages is marked by kmemleak when allocated from memblock. Remove     it from kmemleak when freeing the page. Otherwise, when we reuse the page, kmemleak may report such an     error and then stop working. kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xffff98fb6eab3d40 into the object search tree     (overlaps existing) kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled kmemleak: Object 0xffff98fb6be00000     (size 335544320): kmemleak: comm swapper, pid 0, jiffies 4294892296 kmemleak: min_count = 0 kmemleak:
    count = 0 kmemleak: flags = 0x1 kmemleak: checksum = 0 kmemleak: backtrace: (CVE-2022-49994)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
166118	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-008 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2022-008)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	10/14/2022	9/25/2025	high
247934	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-49994	Nessus	Misc.	8/11/2025	10/28/2025	medium

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