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Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-989413)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 273903

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-2025-989413 advisory.

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

 scsi: mpt3sas: Page fault in reply q processing

 A page fault was encountered in mpt3sas on a LUN reset error path:

 [ 145.763216] mpt3sas_cm1: Task abort tm failed: handle(0x0002),timeout(30) tr_method(0x0) smid(3) msix_index(0) [ 145.778932] scsi 1:0:0:0: task abort: FAILED scmd(0x0000000024ba29a2) [ 145.817307] scsi 1:0:0:0: attempting device reset! scmd(0x0000000024ba29a2) [ 145.827253] scsi 1:0:0:0: [sg1] tag#2 CDB: Receive Diagnostic 1c 01 01 ff fc 00 [ 145.837617] scsi target1:0:0: handle(0x0002), sas_address(0x500605b0000272b9), phy(0) [ 145.848598] scsi target1:0:0: enclosure logical id(0x500605b0000272b8), slot(0) [ 149.858378] mpt3sas_cm1: Poll ReplyDescriptor queues for completion of smid(0), task_type(0x05), handle(0x0002) [ 149.875202] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000007fffc445d [ 149.885617] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 149.894346] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 149.903123] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 149.909387] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 149.917417] CPU: 24 PID: 3512 Comm: scsi_eh_1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S O 5.10.89-altav-1 #1 [ 149.934327] Hardware name: DDN 200NVX2 /200NVX2-MB , BIOS ATHG2.2.02.01 09/10/2021 [ 149.951871] RIP: 0010:_base_process_reply_queue+0x4b/0x900 [mpt3sas] [ 149.961889] Code: 0f 84 22 02 00 00 8d 48 01 49 89 fd 48 8d 57 38 f0 0f b1 4f 38 0f 85 d8 01 00 00 49 8b 45 10 45 31 e4 41 8b 55 0c 48 8d 1c d0 <0f> b6 03 83 e0 0f 3c 0f 0f 85 a2 00 00 00 e9 e6 01 00 00 0f b7 ee [ 149.991952] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000f1ebcb8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 150.000937] RAX: 0000000000000055 RBX: 00000007fffc445d RCX: 000000002548f071 [ 150.011841] RDX: 00000000ffff8881 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff888125ed50d8 [ 150.022670] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffff7fff [ 150.033445] R10: ffffc9000f1ebb68 R11: ffffc9000f1ebb60 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 150.044204] R13: ffff888125ed50d8 R14: 0000000000000080 R15: 34cdc00034cdea80 [ 150.054963] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88dfaf200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 150.066715] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 150.076078] CR2: 00000007fffc445d CR3: 000000012448a006 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 [ 150.086887] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 150.097670] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 150.108323] PKRU: 55555554 [ 150.114690] Call Trace:
 [ 150.120497] ? printk+0x48/0x4a [ 150.127049] mpt3sas_scsih_issue_tm.cold.114+0x2e/0x2b3 [mpt3sas] [ 150.136453] mpt3sas_scsih_issue_locked_tm+0x86/0xb0 [mpt3sas] [ 150.145759] scsih_dev_reset+0xea/0x300 [mpt3sas] [ 150.153891] scsi_eh_ready_devs+0x541/0x9e0 [scsi_mod] [ 150.162206] ? __scsi_host_match+0x20/0x20 [scsi_mod] [ 150.170406] ? scsi_try_target_reset+0x90/0x90 [scsi_mod] [ 150.178925] ? blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter+0x45/0x60 [ 150.186638] ? scsi_try_target_reset+0x90/0x90 [scsi_mod] [ 150.195087] scsi_error_handler+0x3a5/0x4a0 [scsi_mod] [ 150.203206] ? __schedule+0x1e9/0x610 [ 150.209783] ? scsi_eh_get_sense+0x210/0x210 [scsi_mod] [ 150.217924] kthread+0x12e/0x150 [ 150.224041] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x130/0x130 [ 150.231206] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

 This is caused by mpt3sas_base_sync_reply_irqs() using an invalid reply_q pointer outside of the list_for_each_entry() loop. At the end of the full list traversal the pointer is invalid.

 Move the _base_process_reply_queue() call inside of the loop.

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?9f5f831a

http://www.nessus.org/u?19422981

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48835

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 273903

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-989413.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-2022-48835

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: 4/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48835