Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: glib2 (UTSA-2026-039482)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 344555

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-2026-039482 advisory.

A flaw was found in GLib (Gnome Lib). This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause heap corruption, leading to a denial of service or potential code execution via a buffer-underflow in the GVariant parser when processing maliciously crafted input strings.

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 glib2 package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14087

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14087

http://www.nessus.org/u?c967b9c8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 344555

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-039482.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 9/10/2026

Updated: 9/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.48

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 7/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14087