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Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: glibc (UTSA-2023-000634)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 345537

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-2023-000634 advisory.

 ** DISPUTED ** A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor.
 The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
 VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled.

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 glibc package.

See Also

https://gitee.com/src-openeuler/glibc/issues/I6DBA9

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0687

http://www.nessus.org/u?ad34872b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 345537

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2023-000634.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 9/13/2026

Updated: 9/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0687

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0687