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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987043)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 268792

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-2025-987043 advisory.

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

 net/mlx5e: Fix page reclaim for dead peer hairpin

 When adding a hairpin flow, a firmware-side send queue is created for the peer net device, which claims some host memory pages for its internal ring buffer. If the peer net device is removed/unbound before the hairpin flow is deleted, then the send queue is not destroyed which leads to a stack trace on pci device remove:

 [ 748.005230] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.2: wait_func:1094:(pid 12985): MANAGE_PAGES(0x108) timeout. Will cause a leak of a command resource [ 748.005231] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.2: reclaim_pages:514:(pid 12985): failed reclaiming pages: err -110 [ 748.001835] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.2: mlx5_reclaim_root_pages:653:(pid 12985): failed reclaiming pages (-110) for func id 0x0 [ 748.002171] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 748.001177] FW pages counter is 4 after reclaiming all pages [ 748.001186] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12985 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c:685 mlx5_reclaim_startup_pages+0x34b/0x460 [mlx5_core] [ +0.002771] Modules linked in:
 cls_flower mlx5_ib mlx5_core ptp pps_core act_mirred sch_ingress openvswitch nsh xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm ib_uverbs ib_core overlay fuse [last unloaded: pps_core] [ 748.007225] CPU: 1 PID: 12985 Comm: tee Not tainted 5.12.0+ #1 [ 748.001376] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 748.002315] RIP: 0010:mlx5_reclaim_startup_pages+0x34b/0x460 [mlx5_core] [ 748.001679] Code: 28 00 00 00 0f 85 22 01 00 00 48 81 c4 b0 00 00 00 31 c0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 c7 c7 40 cc 19 a1 e8 9f 71 0e e2 <0f> 0b e9 30 ff ff ff 48 c7 c7 a0 cc 19 a1 e8 8c 71 0e e2 0f 0b e9 [ 748.003781] RSP: 0018:ffff88815220faf8 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 748.001149] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881b4900280 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 748.001445] RDX: 0000000000000027 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffed102a441f51 [ 748.001614] RBP: 00000000000032b9 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1054a15ee8 [ 748.001446] R10: ffff8882a50af73b R11: ffffed1054a15ee7 R12: fffffbfff07c1e30 [ 748.001447] R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8881b492cba8 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 748.001429] FS: 00007f58bd08b580(0000) GS:ffff8882a5080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 748.001695] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 748.001309] CR2: 000055a026351740 CR3: 00000001d3b48006 CR4: 0000000000370ea0 [ 748.001506] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 748.001483] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 748.001654] Call Trace:
 [ 748.000576] ? mlx5_satisfy_startup_pages+0x290/0x290 [mlx5_core] [ 748.001416] ? mlx5_cmd_teardown_hca+0xa2/0xd0 [mlx5_core] [ 748.001354] ? mlx5_cmd_init_hca+0x280/0x280 [mlx5_core] [ 748.001203] mlx5_function_teardown+0x30/0x60 [mlx5_core] [ 748.001275] mlx5_uninit_one+0xa7/0xc0 [mlx5_core] [ 748.001200] remove_one+0x5f/0xc0 [mlx5_core] [ 748.001075] pci_device_remove+0x9f/0x1d0 [ 748.000833] device_release_driver_internal+0x1e0/0x490 [ 748.001207] unbind_store+0x19f/0x200 [ 748.000942] ? sysfs_file_ops+0x170/0x170 [ 748.001000] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2bc/0x450 [ 748.000970] new_sync_write+0x373/0x610 [ 748.001124] ? new_sync_read+0x600/0x600 [ 748.001057] ? lock_acquire+0x4d6/0x700 [ 748.000908] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400 [ 748.001126] ? fd_install+0x1c9/0x4d0 [ 748.000951] vfs_write+0x4d0/0x800 [ 748.000804] ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0 [ 748.000868] ? __x64_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0 [ 748.000811] ? filp_open+0x50/0x50 [ 748.000919] ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 [ 748.001223] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x80 [ 748.000892] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ 748.00
 ---truncated---

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.

Solution

Update the affected kernel package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bfcda90e

http://www.nessus.org/u?3410d5c2

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47246

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 268792

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987043.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 10/15/2025

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-2021-47246

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: 1/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-47246