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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-992182)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 280498

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-2025-992182 advisory.

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

 af_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight.

 user->unix_inflight is changed under spin_lock(unix_gc_lock), but too_many_unix_fds() reads it locklessly.

 Let's annotate the write/read accesses to user->unix_inflight.

 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_attach_fds / unix_inflight

 write to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44798 on cpu 1:
 unix_inflight+0x157/0x180 net/unix/scm.c:66 unix_attach_fds+0x147/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:123 unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950 unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline] unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494
 ___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548
 __sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

 read to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44814 on cpu 0:
 too_many_unix_fds net/unix/scm.c:101 [inline] unix_attach_fds+0x54/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:110 unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950 unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline] unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494
 ___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548
 __sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

 value changed: 0x000000000000000c -> 0x000000000000000d

 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
 CPU: 0 PID: 44814 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.4.0-11989-g6843306689af #6 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

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?1304ea41

http://www.nessus.org/u?0cb10fd2

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53204

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 280498

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-992182.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/30/2025

Updated: 12/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-53204

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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: 9/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-53204