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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-986929)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 267953

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-2025-986929 advisory.

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

 bnxt_en: Fix possible crash in bnxt_hwrm_set_coal()

 During the error recovery sequence, the rtnl_lock is not held for the entire duration and some datastructures may be freed during the sequence.
 Check for the BNXT_STATE_OPEN flag instead of netif_running() to ensure that the device is fully operational before proceeding to reconfigure the coalescing settings.

 This will fix a possible crash like this:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 10 PID: 181276 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G IOE --------- - - 4.18.0-348.el8.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/0F9N89, BIOS 2.3.10 08/15/2019 RIP: 0010:bnxt_hwrm_set_coal+0x1fb/0x2a0 [bnxt_en] Code: c2 66 83 4e 22 08 66 89 46 1c e8 10 cb 00 00 41 83 c6 01 44 39 b3 68 01 00 00 0f 8e a3 00 00 00 48 8b 93 c8 00 00 00 49 63 c6 <48> 8b 2c c2 48 8b 85 b8 02 00 00 48 85 c0 74 2e 48 8b 74 24 08 f6 RSP: 0018:ffffb11c8dcaba50 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8d168a8b0ac0 RCX: 00000000000000c5 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8d162f72c000 RDI: ffff8d168a8b0b28 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: b6e1f68a12e9a7eb R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000037 R12: ffff8d168a8b109c R13: ffff8d168a8b10aa R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffc01ac4e0 FS: 00007f3852e4c740(0000) GS:ffff8d24c0080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000041b3ee003 CR4: 00000000007706e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace:
 ethnl_set_coalesce+0x3ce/0x4c0 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150 genl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160 ? coalesce_fill_reply+0x480/0x480 genl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90 ? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160 netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 netlink_unicast+0x196/0x230 netlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0 sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50
 __sys_sendto+0xee/0x160 ? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0 ? __audit_syscall_exit+0x249/0x2a0
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca RIP: 0033:0x7f38524163bb

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.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?38479052

http://www.nessus.org/u?06b1d915

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49869

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 267953

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-986929.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 10/7/2025

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-2022-49869

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: 9/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49869