Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-001882)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 286606

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-2026-001882 advisory.

The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to generate a continuous stream of WARN messages and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi operations, aka Linux pciback missing sanity checks.

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?6272c7bb

http://www.nessus.org/u?30ff9fab

http://www.nessus.org/u?447aad90

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc67a458

http://www.nessus.org/u?43ad043b

http://www.nessus.org/u?f038b32a

http://www.nessus.org/u?781faab0

http://www.nessus.org/u?ff3f6632

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79546

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034480

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-157.html

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8552

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 286606

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-001882.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/15/2026

Updated: 1/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8552

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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: 1/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8552