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: f2fs: compress: fix to avoid use-     after-free on dic Call trace: __memcpy+0x128/0x250 f2fs_read_multi_pages+0x940/0xf7c     f2fs_mpage_readpages+0x5a8/0x624 f2fs_readahead+0x5c/0x110 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1b8/0x590     do_sync_mmap_readahead+0x1dc/0x2e4 filemap_fault+0x254/0xa8c f2fs_filemap_fault+0x2c/0x104
    __do_fault+0x7c/0x238 do_handle_mm_fault+0x11bc/0x2d14 do_mem_abort+0x3a8/0x1004 el0_da+0x3c/0xa0     el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0xec el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8 In f2fs_read_multi_pages(), once     f2fs_decompress_cluster() was called if we hit cached page in compress_inode's cache, dic may be released,     it needs break the loop rather than continuing it, in order to avoid accessing invalid dic pointer.
    (CVE-2023-52852)

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

An update of the linux package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
248902	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-52852	Nessus	Misc.	8/12/2025	7/17/2026	high
204441	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2024-5.0-0187	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/24/2024	10/14/2025	high

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