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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987698)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 271083

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-2025-987698 advisory.

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

 EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()

 When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc().

 Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak.

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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?cd75420f

http://www.nessus.org/u?61b88d2c

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49757

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 271083

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987698.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-2022-49757

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-2022-49757