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Unity Linux 20.1060a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-993239)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 281317

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-2025-993239 advisory.

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

 orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_{kernel,client}_debug_init()

 When insert and remove the orangefs module, there are memory leaked as below:

 unreferenced object 0xffff88816b0cc000 (size 2048):
 comm insmod, pid 783, jiffies 4294813439 (age 65.512s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
 6e 6f 6e 65 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 none............
 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
 backtrace:
 [<0000000031ab7788>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0 [<000000005b405fee>] orangefs_debugfs_init.cold+0xaf/0x17f [<00000000e5a0085b>] 0xffffffffa02780f9 [<000000004232d9f7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<0000000054f22384>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320 [<000000003263bdea>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330 [<0000000052cd4153>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0 [<00000000250ae02b>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<00000000f11c03c7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

 Use the golbal variable as the buffer rather than dynamic allocate to slove the problem.

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?68d8eda4

http://www.nessus.org/u?0368bd17

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50376

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 281317

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-993239.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-2022-50376

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-2022-50376