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Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-396169)
high Nessus Plugin ID 266778
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-2025-396169 advisory.In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: qat - resolve race condition during AER recovery
During the PCI AER system's error recovery process, the kernel driver may encounter a race condition with freeing the reset_data structure's memory. If the device restart will take more than 10 seconds the function scheduling that restart will exit due to a timeout, and the reset_data structure will be freed. However, this data structure is used for completion notification after the restart is completed, which leads to a UAF bug.
This results in a KFENCE bug notice.
BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in adf_device_reset_worker+0x38/0xa0 [intel_qat] Use-after-free read at 0x00000000bc56fddf (in kfence-#142):
adf_device_reset_worker+0x38/0xa0 [intel_qat] process_one_work+0x173/0x340
To resolve this race condition, the memory associated to the container of the work_struct is freed on the worker if the timeout expired, otherwise on the function that schedules the worker.
The timeout detection can be done by checking if the caller is still waiting for completion or not by using completion_done() function.
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.
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 266778
File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-396169.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Published: 10/7/2025
Updated: 10/7/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6
Temporal Score: 4.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26974
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 4/9/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-26974