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Unity Linux 20.1050a / 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-434151)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266744

Synopsis

The Unity Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-434151 advisory.

 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

 do_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak

 syzbot identified a kernel information leak vulnerability in do_sys_name_to_handle() and issued the following report [1].

 [1] BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40 instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
 _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40 copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:191 [inline] do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:73 [inline]
 __do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]
 __se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x949/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94
 __x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94 ...

 Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5c9/0x970 mm/slub.c:3517
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x121/0x3c0 mm/slab_common.c:1020 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline] do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:39 [inline]
 __do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]
 __se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x441/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94
 __x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94 ...

 Bytes 18-19 of 20 are uninitialized Memory access of size 20 starts at ffff888128a46380 Data copied to user address 0000000020000240

 Per Chuck Lever's suggestion, use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() to solve the problem.

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.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d247afa

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26901

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266744

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-434151.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 10/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26901

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/UOS-Server/release, Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26901