Unity Linux 20.1050a / 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-407080)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 267813

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-2025-407080 advisory.

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

powerpc/imc-pmu: Add a null pointer check in update_events_in_group()

kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure.

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.

Solution

Update the affected kernel package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?62ed492a

http://www.nessus.org/u?1e66699a

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52675

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 267813

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-407080.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 10/15/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2023-52675

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: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52675