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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987565)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270929

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-2025-987565 advisory.

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

 ipv6: fix panic when forwarding a pkt with no in6 dev

 kongweibin reported a kernel panic in ip6_forward() when input interface has no in6 dev associated.

 The following tc commands were used to reproduce this panic:
 tc qdisc del dev vxlan100 root tc qdisc add dev vxlan100 root netem corrupt 5%

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?a1c397aa

http://www.nessus.org/u?f2387bc4

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49048

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270929

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987565.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-2022-49048

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/UOS-Server/release, Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49048