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

  - s390/monwriter: Reject buffer reuse with different data length When data buffers are reused, e.g. for     interval sample records, the first record determines the data length, and the size of the buffer for user     copy. Current monwriter code does not check if the data length was changed for subsequent records, which     also would never happen for valid user programs. However, a malicious user could change the data length,     resulting in out of bounds user copy to the kernel buffer, and memory corruption. By default, the     monwriter misc device is created with root-only permissions, so practical impact is typically low. Fix     this by checking for changed data length and rejecting such records. (CVE-2026-72025)

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
337723	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72025	Nessus	Misc.	8/18/2026	8/27/2026	high
334784	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2026-5.0-92-0952	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	8/12/2026	9/7/2026	high

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