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Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-986453)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 268304

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-2025-986453 advisory.

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

 ipw2x00: Fix potential NULL dereference in libipw_xmit()

 crypt and crypt->ops could be null, so we need to checking null before dereference

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?b380321d

http://www.nessus.org/u?280df660

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49544

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 268304

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-986453.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-2022-49544

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: 9/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49544