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Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-992278)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 280344

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-2025-992278 advisory.

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

 HID: hidraw: fix memory leak in hidraw_release()

 Free the buffered reports before deleting the list entry.

 BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810e72f180 (size 32):
 comm softirq, pid 0, jiffies 4294945143 (age 16.080s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
 64 f3 c6 6a d1 88 07 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d..j............
 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
 backtrace:
 [<ffffffff814ac6c3>] kmemdup+0x23/0x50 mm/util.c:128 [<ffffffff8357c1d2>] kmemdup include/linux/fortify-string.h:440 [inline] [<ffffffff8357c1d2>] hidraw_report_event+0xa2/0x150 drivers/hid/hidraw.c:521 [<ffffffff8356ddad>] hid_report_raw_event+0x27d/0x740 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1992 [<ffffffff8356e41e>] hid_input_report+0x1ae/0x270 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2065 [<ffffffff835f0d3f>] hid_irq_in+0x1ff/0x250 drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:284 [<ffffffff82d3c7f9>] __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0xf9/0x230 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1670 [<ffffffff82d3cc26>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x1b6/0x1d0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1747 [<ffffffff82ef1e14>] dummy_timer+0x8e4/0x14c0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988 [<ffffffff812f50a8>] call_timer_fn+0x38/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1474 [<ffffffff812f5586>] expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1519 [inline] [<ffffffff812f5586>] __run_timers.part.0+0x316/0x430 kernel/time/timer.c:1790 [<ffffffff812f56e4>] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1768 [inline] [<ffffffff812f56e4>] run_timer_softirq+0x44/0x90 kernel/time/timer.c:1803 [<ffffffff848000e6>] __do_softirq+0xe6/0x2ea kernel/softirq.c:571 [<ffffffff81246db0>] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:445 [inline] [<ffffffff81246db0>] __irq_exit_rcu kernel/softirq.c:650 [inline] [<ffffffff81246db0>] irq_exit_rcu+0xc0/0x110 kernel/softirq.c:662 [<ffffffff84574f02>] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa2/0xd0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1106 [<ffffffff84600c8b>] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:649 [<ffffffff8458a070>] native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline] [<ffffffff8458a070>] arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline] [<ffffffff8458a070>] acpi_safe_halt drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:111 [inline] [<ffffffff8458a070>] acpi_idle_do_entry+0xc0/0xd0 drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:554

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?4c82c4e6

http://www.nessus.org/u?8fe52165

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49981

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 280344

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-992278.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-2022-49981

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: 10/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49981