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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987672)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270994

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-2025-987672 advisory.

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

 fbdev: smscufx: fix error handling code in ufx_usb_probe

 The current error handling code in ufx_usb_probe have many unmatching issues, e.g., missing ufx_free_usb_list, destroy_modedb label should only include framebuffer_release, fb_dealloc_cmap only matches fb_alloc_cmap.

 My local syzkaller reports a memory leak bug:

 memory leak in ufx_usb_probe

 BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88802f879580 (size 128):
 comm kworker/0:7, pid 17416, jiffies 4295067474 (age 46.710s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
 80 21 7c 2e 80 88 ff ff 18 d0 d0 0c 80 88 ff ff .!|.............
 00 d0 d0 0c 80 88 ff ff e0 ff ff ff 0f 00 00 00 ................
 backtrace:
 [<ffffffff814c99a0>] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1045 [<ffffffff824d219c>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:553 [inline] [<ffffffff824d219c>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:689 [inline] [<ffffffff824d219c>] ufx_alloc_urb_list drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c:1873 [inline] [<ffffffff824d219c>] ufx_usb_probe+0x11c/0x15a0 drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c:1655 [<ffffffff82d17927>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396 [<ffffffff82712f0d>] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:560 [inline] [<ffffffff82712f0d>] really_probe+0x12d/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:639 [<ffffffff8271322f>] __driver_probe_device+0xbf/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:778 [<ffffffff827132da>] driver_probe_device+0x2a/0x120 drivers/base/dd.c:808 [<ffffffff82713c27>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150 drivers/base/dd.c:936 [<ffffffff82710137>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:427 [<ffffffff827136b5>] __device_attach+0x105/0x2d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1008 [<ffffffff82711d36>] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:487 [<ffffffff8270e242>] device_add+0x642/0xdc0 drivers/base/core.c:3517 [<ffffffff82d14d5f>] usb_set_configuration+0x8ef/0xb80 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2170 [<ffffffff82d2576c>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238 [<ffffffff82d16ffc>] usb_probe_device+0x5c/0x140 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293 [<ffffffff82712f0d>] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:560 [inline] [<ffffffff82712f0d>] really_probe+0x12d/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:639 [<ffffffff8271322f>] __driver_probe_device+0xbf/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:778

 Fix this bug by rewriting the error handling code in ufx_usb_probe.

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?96b11a5f

http://www.nessus.org/u?afb48190

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49741

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270994

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987672.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-2022-49741

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: 3/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49741