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Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-013172)

high Nessus Plugin ID 308037

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-2026-013172 advisory.

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

 scsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix UAF during logout when accessing the shost ipaddress

 Bug report and analysis from Ding Hui.

 During iSCSI session logout, if another task accesses the shost ipaddress attr, we can get a KASAN UAF report like this:

 [ 276.942144] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x78/0xe0 [ 276.942535] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881053b45b8 by task cat/4088 [ 276.943511] CPU: 2 PID: 4088 Comm: cat Tainted: G E 6.1.0-rc8+ #3 [ 276.943997] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020 [ 276.944470] Call Trace:
 [ 276.944943] <TASK> [ 276.945397] dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48 [ 276.945887] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x86/0x1e7 [ 276.946421] print_report+0x36/0x4f [ 276.947358] kasan_report+0xad/0x130 [ 276.948234] kasan_check_range+0x35/0x1c0 [ 276.948674] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x78/0xe0 [ 276.949989] iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param+0xad/0x2e0 [iscsi_tcp] [ 276.951765] show_host_param_ISCSI_HOST_PARAM_IPADDRESS+0xe9/0x130 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 276.952185] dev_attr_show+0x3f/0x80 [ 276.953005] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x1fb/0x3e0 [ 276.953401] seq_read_iter+0x402/0x1020 [ 276.954260] vfs_read+0x532/0x7b0 [ 276.955113] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0 [ 276.955952] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [ 276.956347] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [ 276.956769] RIP: 0033:0x7f5d3a679222 [ 276.957161] Code: c0 e9 b2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 32 c0 0b 00 e8 a5 fe 01 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 [ 276.958009] RSP: 002b:00007ffc864d16a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [ 276.958431] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f5d3a679222 [ 276.958857] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f5d3a4fe000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 276.959281] RBP: 00007f5d3a4fe000 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000 [ 276.959682] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000020000 [ 276.960126] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000557a26dada58 [ 276.960536] </TASK> [ 276.961357] Allocated by task 2209:
 [ 276.961756] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 [ 276.962170] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 [ 276.962557] __kasan_kmalloc+0x7e/0x90 [ 276.962923] __kmalloc+0x5b/0x140 [ 276.963308] iscsi_alloc_session+0x28/0x840 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 276.963712] iscsi_session_setup+0xda/0xba0 [libiscsi] [ 276.964078] iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create+0x1fd/0x330 [iscsi_tcp] [ 276.964431] iscsi_if_create_session.isra.0+0x50/0x260 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 276.964793] iscsi_if_recv_msg+0xc5a/0x2660 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 276.965153] iscsi_if_rx+0x198/0x4b0 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 276.965546] netlink_unicast+0x4d5/0x7b0 [ 276.965905] netlink_sendmsg+0x78d/0xc30 [ 276.966236] sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x120 [ 276.966576] ____sys_sendmsg+0x5fe/0x860 [ 276.966923] ___sys_sendmsg+0xe0/0x170 [ 276.967300] __sys_sendmsg+0xc8/0x170 [ 276.967666] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [ 276.968028] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [ 276.968773] Freed by task 2209:
 [ 276.969111] kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 [ 276.969449] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 [ 276.969789] kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x50 [ 276.970146] __kasan_slab_free+0x106/0x190 [ 276.970470] __kmem_cache_free+0x133/0x270 [ 276.970816] device_release+0x98/0x210 [ 276.971145] kobject_cleanup+0x101/0x360 [ 276.971462] iscsi_session_teardown+0x3fb/0x530 [libiscsi] [ 276.971775] iscsi_sw_tcp_session_destroy+0xd8/0x130 [iscsi_tcp] [ 276.972143] iscsi_if_recv_msg+0x1bf1/0x2660 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 276.972485] iscsi_if_rx+0x198/0x4b0 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 276.972808] netlink_unicast+0x4d5/0x7b0 [ 276.973201] netlink_sendmsg+0x78d/0xc30 [ 276.973544] sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x120 [ 276.973864] ____sys_sendmsg+0x5fe/0x860 [ 276.974248] ___sys_
 ---truncated---

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?d8a8d2e7

http://www.nessus.org/u?9a6869cb

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52975

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 308037

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-013172.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 4/21/2026

Updated: 4/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52975

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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: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: 4/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52975