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Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-989935)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 273837

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-2025-989935 advisory.

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

 net:sfc: fix non-freed irq in legacy irq mode

 SFC driver can be configured via modparam to work using MSI-X, MSI or legacy IRQ interrupts. In the last one, the interrupt was not properly released on module remove.

 It was not freed because the flag irqs_hooked was not set during initialization in the case of using legacy IRQ.

 Example of (trimmed) trace during module remove without this fix:

 remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/125', leaking at least '0000:3b:00.1' WARNING: CPU: 39 PID: 3658 at fs/proc/generic.c:715 remove_proc_entry+0x15c/0x170 ...trimmed...
 Call Trace:
 unregister_irq_proc+0xe3/0x100 free_desc+0x29/0x70 irq_free_descs+0x47/0x70 mp_unmap_irq+0x58/0x60 acpi_unregister_gsi_ioapic+0x2a/0x40 acpi_pci_irq_disable+0x78/0xb0 pci_disable_device+0xd1/0x100 efx_pci_remove+0xa1/0x1e0 [sfc] pci_device_remove+0x38/0xa0
 __device_release_driver+0x177/0x230 driver_detach+0xcb/0x110 bus_remove_driver+0x58/0xd0 pci_unregister_driver+0x2a/0xb0 efx_exit_module+0x24/0xf40 [sfc]
 __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x171/0x280 ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x83/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f9f9385800b ...trimmed...

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?ba7f2932

http://www.nessus.org/u?b3e6c50f

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47283

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 273837

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-989935.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-2021-47283

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: 5/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-47283