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Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-992687)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 280241

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-2025-992687 advisory.

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

 RDMA/core: Silence oversized kvmalloc() warning

 syzkaller triggered an oversized kvmalloc() warning.
 Silence it by adding __GFP_NOWARN.

 syzkaller log:
 WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 518 at mm/util.c:665 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180 CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 518 Comm: c_repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6+ #6 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001e67c10 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000100 RBX: 0000000000000400 RCX: ffffffff8149d46b RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8881030fae80 RDI: 0000000000000002 RBP: 000000712c800000 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffc90001e67c10 R11: 0030ae0601000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007fde79159740(0000) GS:ffff88813bdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020000180 CR3: 0000000105eb4005 CR4: 00000000003706b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace:
 <TASK> ib_umem_odp_get+0x1f6/0x390 mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr+0x1e8/0x450 ib_uverbs_reg_mr+0x28b/0x440 ib_uverbs_write+0x7d3/0xa30 vfs_write+0x1ac/0x6c0 ksys_write+0x134/0x170 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1c/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

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?9d9f4f32

http://www.nessus.org/u?2ee7f2e6

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37867

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 280241

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-992687.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/30/2025

Updated: 12/30/2025

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-2025-37867

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/UOS-Server/release, Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-37867