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Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-992464)

high Nessus Plugin ID 280523

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-2025-992464 advisory.

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

 md-raid10: fix KASAN warning

 There's a KASAN warning in raid10_remove_disk when running the lvm test lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh. We fix this warning by verifying that the value number is valid.

 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in raid10_remove_disk+0x61/0x2a0 [raid10] Read of size 8 at addr ffff889108f3d300 by task mdX_raid10/124682

 CPU: 3 PID: 124682 Comm: mdX_raid10 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace:
 <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44 print_report.cold+0x45/0x57a ? __lock_text_start+0x18/0x18 ? raid10_remove_disk+0x61/0x2a0 [raid10] kasan_report+0xa8/0xe0 ? raid10_remove_disk+0x61/0x2a0 [raid10] raid10_remove_disk+0x61/0x2a0 [raid10] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-76, logical block 15344, async page read ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath.constprop.0+0x1e0/0x1e0 remove_and_add_spares+0x367/0x8a0 [md_mod] ? super_written+0x1c0/0x1c0 [md_mod] ? mutex_trylock+0xac/0x120 ? _raw_spin_lock+0x72/0xc0 ? _raw_spin_lock_bh+0xc0/0xc0 md_check_recovery+0x848/0x960 [md_mod] raid10d+0xcf/0x3360 [raid10] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x185/0x1a0 ? rb_erase+0x4d4/0x620 ? var_wake_function+0xe0/0xe0 ? psi_group_change+0x411/0x500 ? preempt_count_sub+0xf/0xc0 ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0xc0 ? __lock_text_start+0x18/0x18 ? raid10_sync_request+0x36c0/0x36c0 [raid10] ? preempt_count_sub+0xf/0xc0 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x40 ? del_timer_sync+0xa9/0x100 ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0xc0/0xc0 ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0xc0 ? __lock_text_start+0x18/0x18 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x11/0x24 ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x68/0xa0 ? finish_wait+0xa3/0x100 md_thread+0x161/0x260 [md_mod] ? unregister_md_personality+0xa0/0xa0 [md_mod] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0xc0 ? prepare_to_wait_event+0x2c0/0x2c0 ? unregister_md_personality+0xa0/0xa0 [md_mod] kthread+0x148/0x180 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK>

 Allocated by task 124495:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x80/0xa0 setup_conf+0x140/0x5c0 [raid10] raid10_run+0x4cd/0x740 [raid10] md_run+0x6f9/0x1300 [md_mod] raid_ctr+0x2531/0x4ac0 [dm_raid] dm_table_add_target+0x2b0/0x620 [dm_mod] table_load+0x1c8/0x400 [dm_mod] ctl_ioctl+0x29e/0x560 [dm_mod] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x7/0x20 [dm_mod]
 __do_compat_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x160 do_syscall_64+0x90/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

 Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x9e/0xc0 kvfree_call_rcu+0x84/0x480 timerfd_release+0x82/0x140 L __fput+0xfa/0x400 task_work_run+0x80/0xc0 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x155/0x160 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x40 do_syscall_64+0x42/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

 Second to last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x9e/0xc0 kvfree_call_rcu+0x84/0x480 timerfd_release+0x82/0x140
 __fput+0xfa/0x400 task_work_run+0x80/0xc0 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x155/0x160 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x40 do_syscall_64+0x42/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff889108f3d200 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of 256-byte region [ffff889108f3d200, ffff889108f3d300)

 The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
 page:000000007ef2a34c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1108f3c head:000000007ef2a34c order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=2) raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff889100042b40 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

 Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff889108f3d200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff889108f3d280: 00 00
 ---truncated---

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?72d5cb89

http://www.nessus.org/u?d7244f8d

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50211

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 280523

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-992464.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/30/2025

Updated: 12/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-50211

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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-2022-50211