Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-986682)

high Nessus Plugin ID 268208

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-2025-986682 advisory.

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

tee: optee: Fix incorrect page free bug

Pointer to the allocated pages (struct page *page) has already progressed towards the end of allocation. It is incorrect to perform
__free_pages(page, order) using this pointer as we would free any arbitrary pages. Fix this by stop modifying the page pointer.

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?6df1112d

http://www.nessus.org/u?6af73be8

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47087

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 268208

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-986682.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 10/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-47087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-47087