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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987707)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270951

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-2025-987707 advisory.

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

 net: USB: Fix wrong-direction WARNING in plusb.c

 The syzbot fuzzer detected a bug in the plusb network driver: A zero-length control-OUT transfer was treated as a read instead of a write. In modern kernels this error provokes a WARNING:

 usb 1-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000280 doesn't match bRequestType c0 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4645 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411 usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 1 PID: 4645 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.2.0-rc6-syzkaller-00050-g9f266ccaa2f5 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/12/2023 RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411 ...
 Call Trace:
 <TASK> usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58 usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline] usb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153
 __usbnet_read_cmd+0xb9/0x390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2010 usbnet_read_cmd+0x96/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2068 pl_vendor_req drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:60 [inline] pl_set_QuickLink_features drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:75 [inline] pl_reset+0x2f/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:85 usbnet_open+0xcc/0x5d0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:889
 __dev_open+0x297/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1417
 __dev_change_flags+0x587/0x750 net/core/dev.c:8530 dev_change_flags+0x97/0x170 net/core/dev.c:8602 devinet_ioctl+0x15a2/0x1d70 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1147 inet_ioctl+0x33f/0x380 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:979 sock_do_ioctl+0xcc/0x230 net/socket.c:1169 sock_ioctl+0x1f8/0x680 net/socket.c:1286 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x197/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:856 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

 The fix is to call usbnet_write_cmd() instead of usbnet_read_cmd() and remove the USB_DIR_IN flag.

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?c8ec8299

http://www.nessus.org/u?c1bcb7a7

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52742

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270951

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987707.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-2023-52742

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: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52742