Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: firefox (UTSA-2025-987432)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 268949

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-2025-987432 advisory.

Use after free in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 137.0.7151.55 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

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 firefox package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d1ba8aa3

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5283

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5283

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 268949

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987432.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 10/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5283

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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: 9/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5283