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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987548)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270886

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-2025-987548 advisory.

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

 parisc: Fix data TLB miss in sba_unmap_sg

 Rolf Eike Beer reported the following bug:

 [1274934.746891] Bad Address (null pointer deref?): Code=15 (Data TLB miss fault) at addr 0000004140000018 [1274934.746891] CPU: 3 PID: 5549 Comm: cmake Not tainted 5.15.4-gentoo-parisc64 #4 [1274934.746891] Hardware name: 9000/785/C8000 [1274934.746891] [1274934.746891] YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI [1274934.746891] PSW: 00001000000001001111111000001110 Not tainted [1274934.746891] r00-03 000000ff0804fe0e 0000000040bc9bc0 00000000406760e4 0000004140000000 [1274934.746891] r04-07 0000000040b693c0 0000004140000000 000000004a2b08b0 0000000000000001 [1274934.746891] r08-11 0000000041f98810 0000000000000000 000000004a0a7000 0000000000000001 [1274934.746891] r12-15 0000000040bddbc0 0000000040c0cbc0 0000000040bddbc0 0000000040bddbc0 [1274934.746891] r16-19 0000000040bde3c0 0000000040bddbc0 0000000040bde3c0 0000000000000007 [1274934.746891] r20-23 0000000000000006 000000004a368950 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 [1274934.746891] r24-27 0000000000001fff 000000000800000e 000000004a1710f0 0000000040b693c0 [1274934.746891] r28-31 0000000000000001 0000000041f988b0 0000000041f98840 000000004a171118 [1274934.746891] sr00-03 00000000066e5800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000066e5800 [1274934.746891] sr04-07 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [1274934.746891] [1274934.746891] IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000406760e8 00000000406760ec [1274934.746891] IIR: 48780030 ISR: 0000000000000000 IOR: 0000004140000018 [1274934.746891] CPU: 3 CR30: 00000040e3a9c000 CR31: ffffffffffffffff [1274934.746891] ORIG_R28: 0000000040acdd58 [1274934.746891] IAOQ[0]: sba_unmap_sg+0xb0/0x118 [1274934.746891] IAOQ[1]: sba_unmap_sg+0xb4/0x118 [1274934.746891] RP(r2): sba_unmap_sg+0xac/0x118 [1274934.746891] Backtrace:
 [1274934.746891] [<00000000402740cc>] dma_unmap_sg_attrs+0x6c/0x70 [1274934.746891] [<000000004074d6bc>] scsi_dma_unmap+0x54/0x60 [1274934.746891] [<00000000407a3488>] mptscsih_io_done+0x150/0xd70 [1274934.746891] [<0000000040798600>] mpt_interrupt+0x168/0xa68 [1274934.746891] [<0000000040255a48>] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0xc8/0x278 [1274934.746891] [<0000000040255c34>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x3c/0xd8 [1274934.746891] [<000000004025ecb4>] handle_percpu_irq+0xb4/0xf0 [1274934.746891] [<00000000402548e0>] generic_handle_irq+0x50/0x70 [1274934.746891] [<000000004019a254>] call_on_stack+0x18/0x24 [1274934.746891] [1274934.746891] Kernel panic - not syncing: Bad Address (null pointer deref?)

 The bug is caused by overrunning the sglist and incorrectly testing sg_dma_len(sglist) before nents. Normally this doesn't cause a crash, but in this case sglist crossed a page boundary. This occurs in the following code:

 while (sg_dma_len(sglist) && nents--) {

 The fix is simply to test nents first and move the decrement of nents into the loop.

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?586a37cc

http://www.nessus.org/u?4c5e43a6

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48795

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270886

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987548.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/21/2025

Updated: 10/21/2025

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-2022-48795

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: 10/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48795