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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-005539)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 300592

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-2026-005539 advisory.

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

 net, sunrpc: Remap EPERM in case of connection failure in xs_tcp_setup_socket

 When using a BPF program on kernel_connect(), the call can return -EPERM. This causes xs_tcp_setup_socket() to loop forever, filling up the syslog and causing the kernel to potentially freeze up.

 Neil suggested:

 This will propagate -EPERM up into other layers which might not be ready to handle it. It might be safer to map EPERM to an error we would be more likely to expect from the network system - such as ECONNREFUSED or ENETDOWN.

 ECONNREFUSED as error seems reasonable. For programs setting a different error can be out of reach (see handling in 4fbac77d2d09) in particular on kernels which do not have f10d05966196 (bpf: Make BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY return -err instead of allow boolean), thus given that it is better to simply remap for consistent behavior. UDP does handle EPERM in xs_udp_send_request().

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42246

http://www.nessus.org/u?1e56c740

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 300592

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-005539.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 3/4/2026

Updated: 3/4/2026

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-2024-42246

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: 3/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42246