An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-004496 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race     condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-004033 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race     condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race     condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.
    (CVE-2020-29372)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
290166	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-004496)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	medium
288708	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-004033)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	medium
248121	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-29372	Nessus	Misc.	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2020-29372

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium