Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-409507)

high Nessus Plugin ID 266810

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-2025-409507 advisory.

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

ata: libata-core: Fix double free on error

If e.g. the ata_port_alloc() call in ata_host_alloc() fails, we will jump to the err_out label, which will call devres_release_group().
devres_release_group() will trigger a call to ata_host_release().
ata_host_release() calls kfree(host), so executing the kfree(host) in ata_host_alloc() will lead to a double free:

kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:553! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 11 PID: 599 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5 #47 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:kfree+0x2cf/0x2f0 Code: 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 80 d6 ff ff 4d 89 f1 41 b8 01 00 00 00 48 89 d9 48 89 da RSP: 0018:ffffc90000f377f0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff888112b1f2c0 RBX: ffff888112b1f2c0 RCX: ffff888112b1f320 RDX: 000000000000400b RSI: ffffffffc02c9de5 RDI: ffff888112b1f2c0 RBP: ffffc90000f37830 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffc90000f37610 R11: 617461203a736b6e R12: ffffea00044ac780 R13: ffff888100046400 R14: ffffffffc02c9de5 R15: 0000000000000006 FS: 00007f2f1cabe980(0000) GS:ffff88813b380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f2f1c3acf75 CR3: 0000000111724000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace:
<TASK> ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27 ? die+0x2e/0x50 ? do_trap+0xca/0x110 ? do_error_trap+0x6a/0x90 ? kfree+0x2cf/0x2f0 ? exc_invalid_op+0x50/0x70 ? kfree+0x2cf/0x2f0 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? ata_host_alloc+0xf5/0x120 [libata] ? ata_host_alloc+0xf5/0x120 [libata] ? kfree+0x2cf/0x2f0 ata_host_alloc+0xf5/0x120 [libata] ata_host_alloc_pinfo+0x14/0xa0 [libata] ahci_init_one+0x6c9/0xd20 [ahci]

Ensure that we will not call kfree(host) twice, by performing the kfree() only if the devres_open_group() call failed.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 266810

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-409507.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Unity Linux Local Security Checks

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-41087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/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: 7/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-41087

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