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Unity Linux 20.1050a / 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-386959)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 267918

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-2025-386959 advisory.

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

 igb: Do not bring the device up after non-fatal error

 Commit 004d25060c78 (igb: Fix igb_down hung on surprise removal) changed igb_io_error_detected() to ignore non-fatal pcie errors in order to avoid hung task that can happen when igb_down() is called multiple times. This caused an issue when processing transient non-fatal errors.
 igb_io_resume(), which is called after igb_io_error_detected(), assumes that device is brought down by igb_io_error_detected() if the interface is up. This resulted in panic with stacktrace below.

 [ T3256] igb 0000:09:00.0 haeth0: igb: haeth0 NIC Link is Down [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Uncorrected (Non-Fatal) error received: 0000:09:00.0 [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Requester ID) [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: device [8086:1537] error status/mask=00004000/00000000 [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: [14] CmpltTO [ 200.105524,009][ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: AER: TLP Header:
 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast error_detected message [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: Non-correctable non-fatal error reported.
 [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast mmio_enabled message [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast resume message [ T292] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ T292] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6539! [ T292] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ T292] RIP: 0010:napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] Call Trace:
 [ T292] <TASK> [ T292] ? die+0x33/0x90 [ T292] ? do_trap+0xdc/0x110 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? do_error_trap+0x70/0xb0 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ T292] ? napi_enable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] igb_up+0x41/0x150 [ T292] igb_io_resume+0x25/0x70 [ T292] report_resume+0x54/0x70 [ T292] ? report_frozen_detected+0x20/0x20 [ T292] pci_walk_bus+0x6c/0x90 [ T292] ? aer_print_port_info+0xa0/0xa0 [ T292] pcie_do_recovery+0x22f/0x380 [ T292] aer_process_err_devices+0x110/0x160 [ T292] aer_isr+0x1c1/0x1e0 [ T292] ? disable_irq_nosync+0x10/0x10 [ T292] irq_thread_fn+0x1a/0x60 [ T292] irq_thread+0xe3/0x1a0 [ T292] ? irq_set_affinity_notifier+0x120/0x120 [ T292] ? irq_affinity_notify+0x100/0x100 [ T292] kthread+0xe2/0x110 [ T292] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ T292] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50 [ T292] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ T292] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 [ T292] </TASK>

 To fix this issue igb_io_resume() checks if the interface is running and the device is not down this means igb_io_error_detected() did not bring the device down and there is no need to bring it up.

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?4e7a63c0

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50040

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 267918

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-386959.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 10/15/2025

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-2024-50040

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-2024-50040