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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987523)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 270899
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-2025-987523 advisory.In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_scan_medium
If an error is returned in jffs2_scan_eraseblock() and some memory has been added to the jffs2_summary *s, we can observe the following kmemleak report:
-------------------------------------------- unreferenced object 0xffff88812b889c40 (size 64):
comm mount, pid 692, jiffies 4294838325 (age 34.288s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
40 48 b5 14 81 88 ff ff 01 e0 31 00 00 00 50 00 @H........1...P.
00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 09 08 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffffae93a3a3>] __kmalloc+0x613/0x910 [<ffffffffaf423b9c>] jffs2_sum_add_dirent_mem+0x5c/0xa0 [<ffffffffb0f3afa8>] jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x36e5/0x4794 [<ffffffffb0f3dbe1>] jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2267 [<ffffffffaf40acf3>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30 [<ffffffffaf40c00a>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0 [<ffffffffb0315d64>] mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400 [<ffffffffb0315f5f>] mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0 [<ffffffffb0316478>] get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840 [<ffffffffaf40bd15>] jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffffae9f358d>] vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0 [<ffffffffaea7a98f>] path_mount+0x50f/0x1e50 [<ffffffffaea7c3d7>] do_mount+0x107/0x130 [<ffffffffaea7c5c5>] __se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0 [<ffffffffaea7c917>] __x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160 [<ffffffffb10142f5>] do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70 unreferenced object 0xffff888114b54840 (size 32):
comm mount, pid 692, jiffies 4294838325 (age 34.288s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
c0 75 b5 14 81 88 ff ff 02 e0 02 00 00 00 02 00 .u..............
00 00 84 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5 ......D...kkkkk.
backtrace:
[<ffffffffae93be24>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x584/0x880 [<ffffffffaf423b04>] jffs2_sum_add_inode_mem+0x54/0x90 [<ffffffffb0f3bd44>] jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x4481/0x4794 [...] unreferenced object 0xffff888114b57280 (size 32):
comm mount, pid 692, jiffies 4294838393 (age 34.357s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
10 d5 6c 11 81 88 ff ff 08 e0 05 00 00 00 01 00 ..l.............
00 00 38 02 00 00 28 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5 ..8...(...kkkkk.
backtrace:
[<ffffffffae93be24>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x584/0x880 [<ffffffffaf423c34>] jffs2_sum_add_xattr_mem+0x54/0x90 [<ffffffffb0f3a24f>] jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x298c/0x4794 [...] unreferenced object 0xffff8881116cd510 (size 16):
comm mount, pid 692, jiffies 4294838395 (age 34.355s) hex dump (first 16 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 e0 60 02 00 00 6b a5 ..........`...k.
backtrace:
[<ffffffffae93be24>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x584/0x880 [<ffffffffaf423cc4>] jffs2_sum_add_xref_mem+0x54/0x90 [<ffffffffb0f3b2e3>] jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3a20/0x4794 [...]
--------------------------------------------
Therefore, we should call jffs2_sum_reset_collected(s) on exit to release the memory added in s. In addition, a new tag out_buf is added to prevent the NULL pointer reference caused by s being NULL.
(thanks to Zhang Yi for this analysis)
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?4b5d6e8a
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 270899
File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987523.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-2022-49276
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: 2/26/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-49276