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Unity Linux 20.1060a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-992983)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 280838

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-2025-992983 advisory.

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

 objtool: Fix memory leak in create_static_call_sections()

 strdup() allocates memory for key_name. We need to release the memory in the following error paths. Add free() to avoid memory leak.

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?8bb598cd

http://www.nessus.org/u?c51131c2

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53423

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 280838

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-992983.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/31/2025

Updated: 12/31/2025

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-2023-53423

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: 12/31/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-53423