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Unity Linux 20.1050a / 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-399254)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 267904

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-2025-399254 advisory.

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

 packet: annotate data-races around ignore_outgoing

 ignore_outgoing is read locklessly from dev_queue_xmit_nit() and packet_getsockopt()

 Add appropriate READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations.

 syzbot reported:

 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in dev_queue_xmit_nit / packet_setsockopt

 write to 0xffff888107804542 of 1 bytes by task 22618 on cpu 0:
 packet_setsockopt+0xd83/0xfd0 net/packet/af_packet.c:4003 do_sock_setsockopt net/socket.c:2311 [inline]
 __sys_setsockopt+0x1d8/0x250 net/socket.c:2334
 __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2343 [inline]
 __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2340 [inline]
 __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x66/0x80 net/socket.c:2340 do_syscall_64+0xd3/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

 read to 0xffff888107804542 of 1 bytes by task 27 on cpu 1:
 dev_queue_xmit_nit+0x82/0x620 net/core/dev.c:2248 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3527 [inline] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xcc/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:3547
 __dev_queue_xmit+0xf24/0x1dd0 net/core/dev.c:4335 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3091 [inline] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x264/0x300 net/batman-adv/send.c:108 batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127 batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:392 [inline] batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:420 [inline] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x3f0/0x4b0 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1700 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3254 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x465/0x990 kernel/workqueue.c:3335 worker_thread+0x526/0x730 kernel/workqueue.c:3416 kthread+0x1d1/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243

 value changed: 0x00 -> 0x01

 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
 CPU: 1 PID: 27 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Tainted: G W 6.8.0-syzkaller-08073-g480e035fc4c7 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/29/2024 Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet

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?9645563a

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2ec1a52

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26862

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 267904

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-399254.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:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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: 4/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26862