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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-990803)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 275055

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-2025-990803 advisory.

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

 tracing: Fix memory leak in test_gen_synth_cmd() and test_empty_synth_event()

 test_gen_synth_cmd() only free buf in fail path, hence buf will leak when there is no failure. Add kfree(buf) to prevent the memleak. The same reason and solution in test_empty_synth_event().

 unreferenced object 0xffff8881127de000 (size 2048):
 comm modprobe, pid 247, jiffies 4294972316 (age 78.756s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
 20 67 65 6e 5f 73 79 6e 74 68 5f 74 65 73 74 20 gen_synth_test 20 70 69 64 5f 74 20 6e 65 78 74 5f 70 69 64 5f pid_t next_pid_ backtrace:
 [<000000004254801a>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x100 [<0000000039eb1cf5>] 0xffffffffa00083cd [<000000000e8c3bc8>] 0xffffffffa00086ba [<00000000c293d1ea>] do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480 [<00000000aa189e6d>] do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680 [<00000000d513222b>] load_module+0x6a50/0x70a0 [<000000001fd4d529>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0 [<00000000b36c4c0f>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<00000000bbf20cf3>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd unreferenced object 0xffff8881127df000 (size 2048):
 comm modprobe, pid 247, jiffies 4294972324 (age 78.728s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
 20 65 6d 70 74 79 5f 73 79 6e 74 68 5f 74 65 73 empty_synth_tes 74 20 20 70 69 64 5f 74 20 6e 65 78 74 5f 70 69 t pid_t next_pi backtrace:
 [<000000004254801a>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x100 [<00000000d4db9a3d>] 0xffffffffa0008071 [<00000000c31354a5>] 0xffffffffa00086ce [<00000000c293d1ea>] do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480 [<00000000aa189e6d>] do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680 [<00000000d513222b>] load_module+0x6a50/0x70a0 [<000000001fd4d529>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0 [<00000000b36c4c0f>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<00000000bbf20cf3>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

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?44699131

http://www.nessus.org/u?9e55d639

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49800

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 275055

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-990803.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 11/12/2025

Updated: 11/12/2025

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-2022-49800

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: 11/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49800