Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-990265)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 272671

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-2025-990265 advisory.

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

um: ubd: Do not use drvdata in release

The drvdata is not available in release. Let's just use container_of() to get the ubd instance. Otherwise, removing a ubd device will result in a crash:

RIP: 0033:blk_mq_free_tag_set+0x1f/0xba RSP: 00000000e2083bf0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 000000006021463a RBX: 0000000000000348 RCX: 0000000062604d00 RDX: 0000000004208060 RSI: 00000000605241a0 RDI: 0000000000000348 RBP: 00000000e2083c10 R08: 0000000062414010 R09: 00000000601603f7 R10: 000000000000133a R11: 000000006038c4bd R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000060213a5c R14: 0000000062405d20 R15: 00000000604f7aa0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Segfault with no mm CPU: 0 PID: 17 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc3-00107-gba3f67c11638 #1 Workqueue: events mc_work_proc Stack:
00000000 604f7ef0 62c5d000 62405d20 e2083c30 6002c776 6002c755 600e47ff e2083c60 6025ffe3 04208060 603d36e0 Call Trace:
[<6002c776>] ubd_device_release+0x21/0x55 [<6002c755>] ? ubd_device_release+0x0/0x55 [<600e47ff>] ? kfree+0x0/0x100 [<6025ffe3>] device_release+0x70/0xba [<60381d6a>] kobject_put+0xb5/0xe2 [<6026027b>] put_device+0x19/0x1c [<6026a036>] platform_device_put+0x26/0x29 [<6026ac5a>] platform_device_unregister+0x2c/0x2e [<6002c52e>] ubd_remove+0xb8/0xd6 [<6002bb74>] ? mconsole_reply+0x0/0x50 [<6002b926>] mconsole_remove+0x160/0x1cc [<6002bbbc>] ? mconsole_reply+0x48/0x50 [<6003379c>] ? um_set_signals+0x3b/0x43 [<60061c55>] ? update_min_vruntime+0x14/0x70 [<6006251f>] ? dequeue_task_fair+0x164/0x235 [<600620aa>] ? update_cfs_group+0x0/0x40 [<603a0e77>] ? __schedule+0x0/0x3ed [<60033761>] ? um_set_signals+0x0/0x43 [<6002af6a>] mc_work_proc+0x77/0x91 [<600520b4>] process_scheduled_works+0x1af/0x2c3 [<6004ede3>] ? assign_work+0x0/0x58 [<600527a1>] worker_thread+0x2f7/0x37a [<6004ee3b>] ? set_pf_worker+0x0/0x64 [<6005765d>] ? arch_local_irq_save+0x0/0x2d [<60058e07>] ? kthread_exit+0x0/0x3a [<600524aa>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x37a [<60058f9f>] kthread+0x130/0x135 [<6002068e>] new_thread_handler+0x85/0xb6

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?9642368e

http://www.nessus.org/u?754a40a1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53184

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 272671

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-990265.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: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53184

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: 11/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53184