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Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-990318)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 272357
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-2025-990318 advisory.In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen/netfront: fix crash when removing device
When removing a netfront device directly after a suspend/resume cycle it might happen that the queues have not been setup again, causing a crash during the attempt to stop the queues another time.
Fix that by checking the queues are existing before trying to stop them.
This is XSA-465 / CVE-2024-53240.
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?25a968c1
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 272357
File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-990318.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Published: 11/5/2025
Updated: 11/5/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53240
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.7
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/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: 11/5/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-53240