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Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-989719)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 273544

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-2025-989719 advisory.

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

 drm/i915/reset: Fix error_state_read ptr + offset use

 Fix our pointer offset usage in error_state_read when there is no i915_gpu_coredump but buf offset is non-zero.

 This fixes a kernel page fault can happen when multiple tests are running concurrently in a loop and one is producing engine resets and consuming the i915 error_state dump while the other is forcing full GT resets. (takes a while to trigger).

 The dmesg call trace:

 [ 5590.803000] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address:
 ffffffffa0b0e000 [ 5590.803009] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 5590.803013] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 5590.803016] PGD 5814067 P4D 5814067 PUD 5815063 PMD 109de4067 PTE 0 [ 5590.803022] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 5590.803026] CPU: 5 PID: 13656 Comm: i915_hangman Tainted: G U 5.17.0-rc5-ups69-guc-err-capt-rev6+ #136 [ 5590.803033] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Alder Lake Client Platform/AlderLake-M LP4x RVP, BIOS ADLPFWI1.R00.
 3031.A02.2201171222 01/17/2022 [ 5590.803039] RIP: 0010:memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10 [ 5590.803045] Code: fe ff ff cc eb 1e 0f 1f 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 48 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 f3 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 <f3> a4 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 83 fa 20 72 7e 40 38 fe [ 5590.803054] RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a8fdf0 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 5590.803057] RAX: ffff888107ee9000 RBX: ffff888108cb1a00 RCX: 0000000000000f8f [ 5590.803061] RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffffffa0b0e000 RDI: ffff888107ee9071 [ 5590.803065] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 5590.803069] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000019 [ 5590.803073] R13: 0000000000174fff R14: 0000000000001000 R15: ffff888107ee9000 [ 5590.803077] FS: 00007f62a99bee80(0000) GS:ffff88849f880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 5590.803082] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 5590.803085] CR2: ffffffffa0b0e000 CR3: 000000010a1a8004 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 [ 5590.803089] PKRU: 55555554 [ 5590.803091] Call Trace:
 [ 5590.803093] <TASK> [ 5590.803096] error_state_read+0xa1/0xd0 [i915] [ 5590.803175] kernfs_fop_read_iter+0xb2/0x1b0 [ 5590.803180] new_sync_read+0x116/0x1a0 [ 5590.803185] vfs_read+0x114/0x1b0 [ 5590.803189] ksys_read+0x63/0xe0 [ 5590.803193] do_syscall_64+0x38/0xc0 [ 5590.803197] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ 5590.803201] RIP: 0033:0x7f62aaea5912 [ 5590.803204] Code: c0 e9 b2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 5a b9 0c 00 e8 05 19 02 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 [ 5590.803213] RSP: 002b:00007fff5b659ae8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [ 5590.803218] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000100000 RCX: 00007f62aaea5912 [ 5590.803221] RDX: 000000000008b000 RSI: 00007f62a8c4000f RDI: 0000000000000006 [ 5590.803225] RBP: 00007f62a8bcb00f R08: 0000000000200010 R09: 0000000000101000 [ 5590.803229] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000006 [ 5590.803233] R13: 0000000000075000 R14: 00007f62a8acb010 R15: 0000000000200000 [ 5590.803238] </TASK> [ 5590.803240] Modules linked in: i915 ttm drm_buddy drm_dp_helper drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops prime_numbers nfnetlink br_netfilter overlay mei_pxp mei_hdcp x86_pkg_temp_thermal coretemp kvm_intel snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_intel

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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?959e26c9

http://www.nessus.org/u?897c94b6

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49723

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 273544

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-989719.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-2022-49723

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: 7/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49723