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Unity Linux 20.1050e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-007313)

high Nessus Plugin ID 306988

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-2026-007313 advisory.

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

 Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by sco_sock_timeout

 When the sco connection is established and then, the sco socket is releasing, timeout_work will be scheduled to judge whether the sco disconnection is timeout. The sock will be deallocated later, but it is dereferenced again in sco_sock_timeout. As a result, the use-after-free bugs will happen. The root cause is shown below:

 Cleanup Thread | Worker Thread sco_sock_release | sco_sock_close |
 __sco_sock_close | sco_sock_set_timer | schedule_delayed_work | sco_sock_kill | (wait a time) sock_put(sk) //FREE | sco_sock_timeout | sock_hold(sk) //USE

 The KASAN report triggered by POC is shown below:

 [ 95.890016] ================================================================== [ 95.890496] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0 [ 95.890755] Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800c388080 by task kworker/0:0/7 ...
 [ 95.890755] Workqueue: events sco_sock_timeout [ 95.890755] Call Trace:
 [ 95.890755] <TASK> [ 95.890755] dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x110 [ 95.890755] print_address_description+0x78/0x390 [ 95.890755] print_report+0x11b/0x250 [ 95.890755] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xbe/0xf0 [ 95.890755] ? sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0 [ 95.890755] kasan_report+0x139/0x170 [ 95.890755] ? update_load_avg+0xe5/0x9f0 [ 95.890755] ? sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0 [ 95.890755] kasan_check_range+0x2c3/0x2e0 [ 95.890755] sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0 [ 95.890755] process_one_work+0x561/0xc50 [ 95.890755] worker_thread+0xab2/0x13c0 [ 95.890755] ? pr_cont_work+0x490/0x490 [ 95.890755] kthread+0x279/0x300 [ 95.890755] ? pr_cont_work+0x490/0x490 [ 95.890755] ? kthread_blkcg+0xa0/0xa0 [ 95.890755] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x60 [ 95.890755] ? kthread_blkcg+0xa0/0xa0 [ 95.890755] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 [ 95.890755] </TASK> [ 95.890755] [ 95.890755] Allocated by task 506:
 [ 95.890755] kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x70 [ 95.890755] __kasan_kmalloc+0x86/0x90 [ 95.890755] __kmalloc+0x17f/0x360 [ 95.890755] sk_prot_alloc+0xe1/0x1a0 [ 95.890755] sk_alloc+0x31/0x4e0 [ 95.890755] bt_sock_alloc+0x2b/0x2a0 [ 95.890755] sco_sock_create+0xad/0x320 [ 95.890755] bt_sock_create+0x145/0x320 [ 95.890755] __sock_create+0x2e1/0x650 [ 95.890755] __sys_socket+0xd0/0x280 [ 95.890755] __x64_sys_socket+0x75/0x80 [ 95.890755] do_syscall_64+0xc4/0x1b0 [ 95.890755] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f [ 95.890755] [ 95.890755] Freed by task 506:
 [ 95.890755] kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x70 [ 95.890755] kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 [ 95.890755] poison_slab_object+0x118/0x180 [ 95.890755] __kasan_slab_free+0x12/0x30 [ 95.890755] kfree+0xb2/0x240 [ 95.890755] __sk_destruct+0x317/0x410 [ 95.890755] sco_sock_release+0x232/0x280 [ 95.890755] sock_close+0xb2/0x210 [ 95.890755] __fput+0x37f/0x770 [ 95.890755] task_work_run+0x1ae/0x210 [ 95.890755] get_signal+0xe17/0xf70 [ 95.890755] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x3f/0x520 [ 95.890755] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x55/0x120 [ 95.890755] do_syscall_64+0xd1/0x1b0 [ 95.890755] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f [ 95.890755] [ 95.890755] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800c388000 [ 95.890755] which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024 [ 95.890755] The buggy address is located 128 bytes inside of [ 95.890755] freed 1024-byte region [ffff88800c388000, ffff88800c388400) [ 95.890755] [ 95.890755] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
 [ 95.890755] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88800c38a800 pfn:0xc388 [ 95.890755] head: order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 [ 95.890755] ano
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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?d7b5d37a

http://www.nessus.org/u?2143b97c

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27398

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 306988

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-007313.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 4/17/2026

Updated: 4/17/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27398

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27398