Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-986677)

high Nessus Plugin ID 269162

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-2025-986677 advisory.

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

RDMA/ucma: Protect mc during concurrent multicast leaves

Partially revert the commit mentioned in the Fixes line to make sure that allocation and erasing multicast struct are locked.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ucma_cleanup_multicast drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:491 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ucma_destroy_private_ctx+0x914/0xb70 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:579 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801bb74b00 by task syz-executor.1/25529 CPU: 0 PID: 25529 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc7-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Call Trace:
__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/0x320 mm/kasan/report.c:247
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:433 [inline] kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:450 ucma_cleanup_multicast drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:491 [inline] ucma_destroy_private_ctx+0x914/0xb70 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:579 ucma_destroy_id+0x1e6/0x280 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:614 ucma_write+0x25c/0x350 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1732 vfs_write+0x28e/0xae0 fs/read_write.c:588 ksys_write+0x1ee/0x250 fs/read_write.c:643 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Currently the xarray search can touch a concurrently freeing mc as the xa_for_each() is not surrounded by any lock. Rather than hold the lock for a full scan hold it only for the effected items, which is usually an empty list.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 269162

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-986677.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Family: Unity Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/7/2025

Updated: 10/15/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2022-48726

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: 3/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48726

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