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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987688)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 271070

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-2025-987688 advisory.

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

 firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle

 kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
 According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()

 If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

 Fix this issue by calling kobject_put().

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?93e81e61

http://www.nessus.org/u?5f9549df

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49370

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 271070

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987688.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-2022-49370

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: 7/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49370