Unity Linux 20.1050e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-005060)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 296854

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-2026-005060 advisory.

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

net: relax socket state check at accept time.

Christoph reported the following splat:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 772 at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:761 __inet_accept+0x1f4/0x4a0 Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 772 Comm: syz-executor510 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc7-g7da7119fe22b #56 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__inet_accept+0x1f4/0x4a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:759 Code: 04 38 84 c0 0f 85 87 00 00 00 41 c7 04 24 03 00 00 00 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 ec b7 da fd <0f> 0b e9 7f fe ff ff e8 e0 b7 da fd 0f 0b e9 fe fe ff ff 89 d9 80 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000c2fc58 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff836bdd14 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff888104668000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff836bdb89 R09: fffff52000185f64 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000185f64 R12: dffffc0000000000 R13: 1ffff92000185f98 R14: ffff88810754d880 R15: ffff8881007b7800 FS: 000000001c772880(0000) GS:ffff88811b280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fb9fcf2e178 CR3: 00000001045d2002 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace:
<TASK> inet_accept+0x138/0x1d0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:786 do_accept+0x435/0x620 net/socket.c:1929
__sys_accept4_file net/socket.c:1969 [inline]
__sys_accept4+0x9b/0x110 net/socket.c:1999
__do_sys_accept net/socket.c:2016 [inline]
__se_sys_accept net/socket.c:2013 [inline]
__x64_sys_accept+0x7d/0x90 net/socket.c:2013 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x4315f9 Code: fd ff 48 81 c4 80 00 00 00 e9 f1 fe ff ff 0f 1f 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 0f 83 ab b4 fd ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 RSP: 002b:00007ffdb26d9c78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002b RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000400300 RCX: 00000000004315f9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00000000006e1018 R08: 0000000000400300 R09: 0000000000400300 R10: 0000000000400300 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 000000000040cdf0 R14: 000000000040ce80 R15: 0000000000000055 </TASK>

The reproducer invokes shutdown() before entering the listener status.
After commit 94062790aedb (tcp: defer shutdown(SEND_SHUTDOWN) for TCP_SYN_RECV sockets), the above causes the child to reach the accept syscall in FIN_WAIT1 status.

Eric noted we can relax the existing assertion in __inet_accept()

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?da00c3c4

http://www.nessus.org/u?596640b8

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36484

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 296854

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-005060.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/27/2026

Updated: 1/27/2026

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-2024-36484

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/UOS-Server/release, Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-36484