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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-989753)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 273070

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-2025-989753 advisory.

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

 sfc: fix considering that all channels have TX queues

 Normally, all channels have RX and TX queues, but this is not true if modparam efx_separate_tx_channels=1 is used. In that cases, some channels only have RX queues and others only TX queues (or more preciselly, they have them allocated, but not initialized).

 Fix efx_channel_has_tx_queues to return the correct value for this case too.

 Messages shown at probe time before the fix:
 sfc 0000:03:00.0 ens6f0np0: MC command 0x82 inlen 544 failed rc=-22 (raw=0) arg=0
 ------------[ cut here ]------------ netdevice: ens6f0np0: failed to initialise TXQ -1 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 626 at drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c:2393 efx_ef10_tx_init+0x201/0x300 [sfc] [...] stripped RIP: 0010:efx_ef10_tx_init+0x201/0x300 [sfc] [...] stripped Call Trace:
 efx_init_tx_queue+0xaa/0xf0 [sfc] efx_start_channels+0x49/0x120 [sfc] efx_start_all+0x1f8/0x430 [sfc] efx_net_open+0x5a/0xe0 [sfc]
 __dev_open+0xd0/0x190
 __dev_change_flags+0x1b3/0x220 dev_change_flags+0x21/0x60 [...] stripped

 Messages shown at remove time before the fix:
 sfc 0000:03:00.0 ens6f0np0: failed to flush 10 queues sfc 0000:03:00.0 ens6f0np0: failed to flush queues

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?de1e6948

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8a53c06

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49378

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 273070

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-989753.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-2022-49378

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: 11/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49378