Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987614)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270981

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-2025-987614 advisory.

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

tracing: Fix sleeping function called from invalid context on RT kernel

When setting bootparams=trace_event=initcall:initcall_start tp_printk=1 in the cmdline, the output_printk() was called, and the spin_lock_irqsave() was called in the atomic and irq disable interrupt context suitation. On the PREEMPT_RT kernel, these locks are replaced with sleepable rt-spinlock, so the stack calltrace will be triggered.
Fix it by raw_spin_lock_irqsave when PREEMPT_RT and trace_event=initcall:initcall_start tp_printk=1 enabled.

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0 preempt_count: 2, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 Preemption disabled at:
[<ffffffff8992303e>] try_to_wake_up+0x7e/0xba0 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.1-rt17+ #19 34c5812404187a875f32bee7977f7367f9679ea7 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace:
<TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x8c dump_stack+0x10/0x12
__might_resched.cold+0x11d/0x155 rt_spin_lock+0x40/0x70 trace_event_buffer_commit+0x2fa/0x4c0 ? map_vsyscall+0x93/0x93 trace_event_raw_event_initcall_start+0xbe/0x110 ? perf_trace_initcall_finish+0x210/0x210 ? probe_sched_wakeup+0x34/0x40 ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0xda/0x310 ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x35/0x170 ? map_vsyscall+0x93/0x93 do_one_initcall+0x217/0x3c0 ? trace_event_raw_event_initcall_level+0x170/0x170 ? push_cpu_stop+0x400/0x400 ? cblist_init_generic+0x241/0x290 kernel_init_freeable+0x1ac/0x347 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x65/0x80 ? rest_init+0xf0/0xf0 kernel_init+0x1e/0x150 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK>

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?ba3e0fa7

http://www.nessus.org/u?7c5d89cd

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49322

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270981

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987614.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-2022-49322

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: 7/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49322