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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987049)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 267963

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-2025-987049 advisory.

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

 thermal/drivers/broadcom: Fix potential NULL dereference in sr_thermal_probe

 platform_get_resource() may return NULL, add proper check to avoid potential NULL dereferencing.

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?9fd0321e

http://www.nessus.org/u?1bf7daaf

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49459

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 267963

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987049.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-2022-49459

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: 2/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49459