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-2026-107275 advisory.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio: break and reset virtio devices on device_shutdown()
Hongyu reported a hang on kexec in a VM. QEMU reported invalid memory accesses during the hang.
Invalid read at addr 0x102877002, size 2, region '(null)', reason: rejected Invalid write at addr 0x102877A44, size 2, region '(null)', reason: rejected ...
It was traced down to virtio-console. Kexec works fine if virtio-console is not in use.
The issue is that virtio-console continues to write to the MMIO even after underlying virtio-pci device is reset.
Additionally, Eric noticed that IOMMUs are reset before devices, if devices are not reset on shutdown they continue to poke at guest memory and get errors from the IOMMU. Some devices get wedged then.
The problem can be solved by breaking all virtio devices on virtio bus shutdown, then resetting them.
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.
Plugin Details
File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2026-107275.nasl
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
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: 9/11/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2025