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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-986844)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 267994

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-2025-986844 advisory.

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

 NFC: port100: fix use-after-free in port100_send_complete

 Syzbot reported UAF in port100_send_complete(). The root case is in missing usb_kill_urb() calls on error handling path of ->probe function.

 port100_send_complete() accesses devm allocated memory which will be freed on probe failure. We should kill this urbs before returning an error from probe function to prevent reported use-after-free

 Fail log:

 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in port100_send_complete+0x16e/0x1a0 drivers/nfc/port100.c:935 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801bb59540 by task ksoftirqd/2/26 ...
 Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0x8d/0x303 mm/kasan/report.c:255
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:442 [inline] kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459 port100_send_complete+0x16e/0x1a0 drivers/nfc/port100.c:935
 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x2b0/0x5c0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1670

 ...

 Allocated by task 1255:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline] set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:436 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:515 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:474 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xa6/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:524 alloc_dr drivers/base/devres.c:116 [inline] devm_kmalloc+0x96/0x1d0 drivers/base/devres.c:823 devm_kzalloc include/linux/device.h:209 [inline] port100_probe+0x8a/0x1320 drivers/nfc/port100.c:1502

 Freed by task 1255:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38 kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:45 kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:366 [inline]
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xff/0x140 mm/kasan/common.c:328 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:236 [inline]
 __cache_free mm/slab.c:3437 [inline] kfree+0xf8/0x2b0 mm/slab.c:3794 release_nodes+0x112/0x1a0 drivers/base/devres.c:501 devres_release_all+0x114/0x190 drivers/base/devres.c:530 really_probe+0x626/0xcc0 drivers/base/dd.c:670

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?56e672e2

http://www.nessus.org/u?6ec80dda

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48857

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 267994

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-986844.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-2022-48857

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: 7/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48857