Unity Linux 20.1050e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-102068)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 338572

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-2026-102068 advisory.

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

drm/amdgpu/sdma4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON in fence emission

sdma_v4_0_ring_emit_fence() contains two BUG_ON(addr & 0x3) assertions that verify fence writeback addresses are dword-aligned. These assertions can be reached from unprivileged userspace via crafted DRM_IOCTL_AMDGPU_CS submissions, causing a fatal kernel panic in a scheduler worker thread.

Replace both BUG_ON() calls with WARN_ON() to log the condition without crashing the kernel. A misaligned fence address at this point indicates a driver bug, but crashing the kernel is never the correct response when the assertion is reachable from userspace.

The CS IOCTL path is the correct place to filter invalid submissions;
the ring emission callback is too late to do anything about it.

(cherry picked from commit b90250bd933afd1ba94d86d6b13821997b22b18e)

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-2026-46220

http://www.nessus.org/u?25e330f9

http://www.nessus.org/u?50d59ac8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 338572

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-102068.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 8/21/2026

Updated: 8/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.75

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-2026-46220

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46220