Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-68179

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - misc: nsm: only unlock nsmdev on post-lock error paths nsmdevioctl jumps to the common out label even when the initial copyfromuser fails before nsm-lock has be...

CVE-2026-68179 misc: nsm: only unlock nsm_dev on post-lock error paths

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: nsm: only unlock nsmdev on post-lock error paths nsmdevioctl jumps to the common out label even when the initial copyfromuser fails before nsm-lock has been taken. The error path then blindly unlocks a mutex that was never...