The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-001964 advisory.

    arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not have an exit handler     for the INVVPID instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via     a crafted application.

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.

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip (Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest. (CVE-2014-3647)

A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)

Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash) on the host.
(CVE-2014-3611)

Lars Bull and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in how KVM (the Kernel Virtual Machine) handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR registers.
A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) on the host. (CVE-2014-3610).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fixes :

  - A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's KVM subsystem handled PIT (Programmable     Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user who has access     to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the     host. (CVE-2014-3611, Important)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the     Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol     (SCTP) implementation handled simultaneous connections     between the same hosts. A remote attacker could use this     flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-5077, Important)

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did     not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invept     (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT) and invvpid     (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions. On     hosts with an Intel processor and invept/invppid VM exit     support, an unprivileged guest user could use these     instructions to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3645,     CVE-2014-3646, Moderate)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)     implementation handled user controls. A local,     privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2014-4653, Moderate)

Bug fixes :

  - A known issue that could prevent Chelsio adapters using     the cxgb4 driver from being initialized on IBM POWER8     systems has been fixed. These adapters can now be used     on IBM POWER8 systems as expected.

  - When bringing a hot-added CPU online, the kernel did not     initialize a CPU mask properly, which could result in a     kernel panic. This update corrects the bug by ensuring     that the CPU mask is properly initialized and the     correct NUMA node selected.

  - The kernel could fail to bring a CPU online if the     hardware supported both, the acpi-cpufreq and     intel_pstate modules. This update ensures that the     acpi-cpufreq module is not loaded in the intel_pstate     module is loaded.

  - Due to a bug in the time accounting of the kernel     scheduler, a divide error could occur when hot adding a     CPU. To fix this problem, the kernel scheduler time     accounting has been reworked.

  - The kernel did not handle exceptions caused by an     invalid floating point control (FPC) register, resulting     in a kernel oops. This problem has been fixed by placing     the label to handle these exceptions to the correct     place in the code.

  - A previous change to the kernel for the PowerPC     architecture changed implementation of the     compat_sys_sendfile() function. Consequently, the 64-bit     sendfile() system call stopped working for files larger     than 2 GB on PowerPC. This update restores previous     behavior of sendfile() on PowerPC, and it again process     files bigger than 2 GB as expected.

  - Previously, the kernel scheduler could schedule a CPU     topology update even though the topology did not change.
    This could negatively affect the CPU load balancing,     cause degradation of the system performance, and     eventually result in a kernel oops. This problem has     been fixed by skipping the CPU topology update if the     topology has not actually changed.

  - Previously, recovery of a double-degraded RAID6 array     could, under certain circumstances, result in data     corruption. This could happen because the md driver was     using an optimization that is safe to use only for     single-degraded arrays. This update ensures that this     optimization is skipped during the recovery of     double-degraded RAID6 arrays.

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues.

The following security bugs have been fixed :

  - The __request_module function in kernel/kmod.c in the     Linux kernel before 3.4 did not set a certain killable     attribute, which allowed local users to cause a denial     of service (memory consumption) via a crafted     application. (bnc#779488). (CVE-2012-4398)

  - drivers/hid/hid-zpff.c in the Human Interface Device     (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when     CONFIG_HID_ZEROPLUS is enabled, allowed physically     proximate attackers to cause a denial of service     (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device.
    (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2889)

  - The Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_LOGITECH_FF,     CONFIG_LOGIG940_FF, or CONFIG_LOGIWHEELS_FF is enabled,     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a     crafted device, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-lgff.c,     (2) drivers/hid/hid-lg3ff.c, and (3)     drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c. (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2893)

  - Multiple array index errors in     drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface     Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11,     when CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH is enabled, allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device.
    (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2897)

  - drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the Human Interface     Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11,     when CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD is enabled, allowed physically     proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device.
    (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2899)

  - The Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates certain length     values before ensuring that associated data structures     have been initialized, which allowed local users to     obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory     via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system     call, related to net/ipv4/ping.c, net/ipv4/raw.c,     net/ipv4/udp.c, net/ipv6/raw.c, and net/ipv6/udp.c.
    (bnc#853040, bnc#857643). (CVE-2013-7263)

  - Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the     magicmouse_raw_event function in     drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c in the Magic Mouse HID     driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3 allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code via a crafted device that provides a large amount     of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with an event.
    (bnc#896382). (CVE-2014-3181)

  - The report_fixup functions in the HID subsystem in the     Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allowed physically proximate     attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     write) via a crafted device that provides a small report     descriptor, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-cherry.c, (2)     drivers/hid/hid-kye.c, (3) drivers/hid/hid-lg.c, (4)     drivers/hid/hid-monterey.c, (5)     drivers/hid/hid-petalynx.c, and (6)     drivers/hid/hid-sunplus.c. (bnc#896390). (CVE-2014-3184)

  - Multiple buffer overflows in the     command_port_read_callback function in     drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB     Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allowed     physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code     or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and     system crash) via a crafted device that provides a large     amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a     bulk response. (bnc#896391). (CVE-2014-3185)

  - Buffer overflow in the picolcd_raw_event function in     devices/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the PicoLCD HID device     driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3, as used in     Android on Nexus 7 devices, allowed physically proximate     attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted device     that sends a large report. (bnc#896392). (CVE-2014-3186)

  - The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in     the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculated the number     of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which     allowed guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service     (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified     other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2)     cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption)     by triggering a small gfn value that leads to     permanently pinned pages. (bnc#892782). (CVE-2014-3601)

  - The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem     in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly     handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a     model-specific register, which allowed guest OS users to     cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging     guest OS privileges, related to the wrmsr_interception     function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and the handle_wrmsr     function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c. (bnc#899192).
    (CVE-2014-3610)

  - arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 3.17.2 did not have an exit handler for     the INVVPID instruction, which allowed guest OS users to     cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted     application. (bnc#899192). (CVE-2014-3646)

  - arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly perform RIP     changes, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial     of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application.
    (bnc#899192). (CVE-2014-3647)

  - The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through     3.17.2 allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk,     related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and     net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c. (bnc#902346, bnc#902349).
    (CVE-2014-3673)

  - arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S in the Linux kernel through     3.15.1 on 32-bit x86 platforms, when syscall auditing is     enabled and the sep CPU feature flag is set, allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS and     system crash) via an invalid syscall number, as     demonstrated by number 1000. (bnc#883724).
    (CVE-2014-4508)

  - * DISPUTED * Multiple integer overflows in the     lzo1x_decompress_safe function in     lib/lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c in the LZO decompressor     in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allowed     context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted Literal Run. NOTE: the     author of the LZO algorithms says: The Linux kernel is     not affected; media hype. (bnc#883948). (CVE-2014-4608)

  - kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the Linux kernel     through 3.17.2 did not properly handle private syscall     numbers during use of the ftrace subsystem, which     allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted     application. (bnc#904013). (CVE-2014-7826)

  - An SCTP server doing ASCONF would panic on malformed     INIT ping-of-death. (bnc#905100). (CVE-2014-7841)

  - The ieee80211_fragment function in net/mac80211/tx.c in     the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 did not properly maintain     a certain tail pointer, which allowed remote attackers     to obtain sensitive cleartext information by reading     packets. (bnc#904700). (CVE-2014-8709)

  - A local user with write access could have used this flaw     to crash the kernel or elevate privileges (bnc#905522).
    The following non-security bugs have been fixed:.
    (CVE-2014-8884)

  - Build the KOTD against the SP3 Update project

  - HID: fix kabi breakage.

  - NFS: Provide stub nfs_fscache_wait_on_invalidate() for     when CONFIG_NFS_FSCACHE=n.

  - NFS: fix inverted test for delegation in     nfs4_reclaim_open_state. (bnc#903331)

  - NFS: remove incorrect Lock reclaim failed! warning.
    (bnc#903331)

  - NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR     decoded a file type. (bnc#899574)

  - PCI: pciehp: Clear Data Link Layer State Changed during     init. (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Enable link state change notifications.
    (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Handle push button event asynchronously.
    (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Make check_link_active() non-static.
    (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Use link change notifications for hot-plug     and removal. (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Use per-slot workqueues to avoid deadlock.
    (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Use symbolic constants, not hard-coded     bitmask. (bnc#898295)

  - PM / hibernate: Iterate over set bits instead of PFNs in     swsusp_free(). (bnc#860441)

  - be2net: Fix invocation of be_close() after be_clear().
    (bnc#895468)

  - block: Fix bogus partition statistics reports.
    (bnc#885077 / bnc#891211)

  - block: Fix computation of merged request priority.

  - btrfs: Fix wrong device size when we are resizing the     device.

  - btrfs: Return right extent when fiemap gives unaligned     offset and len.

  - btrfs: abtract out range locking in clone ioctl().

  - btrfs: always choose work from prio_head first.

  - btrfs: balance delayed inode updates.

  - btrfs: cache extent states in defrag code path.

  - btrfs: check file extent type before anything else.
    (bnc#897694)

  - btrfs: clone, do not create invalid hole extent map.

  - btrfs: correctly determine if blocks are shared in     btrfs_compare_trees.

  - btrfs: do not bug_on if we try to cow a free space cache     inode.

  - btrfs: ensure btrfs_prev_leaf does not miss 1 item.

  - btrfs: ensure readers see new data after a clone     operation.

  - btrfs: fill_holes: Fix slot number passed to     hole_mergeable() call.

  - btrfs: filter invalid arg for btrfs resize.

  - btrfs: fix EINVAL checks in btrfs_clone.

  - btrfs: fix EIO on reading file after ioctl clone works     on it.

  - btrfs: fix a crash of clone with inline extents split.

  - btrfs: fix crash of compressed writes. (bnc#898375)

  - btrfs: fix crash when starting transaction.

  - btrfs: fix deadlock with nested trans handles.

  - btrfs: fix hang on error (such as ENOSPC) when writing     extent pages.

  - btrfs: fix leaf corruption after __btrfs_drop_extents.

  - btrfs: fix race between balance recovery and root     deletion.

  - btrfs: fix wrong extent mapping for DirectIO.

  - btrfs: handle a missing extent for the first file     extent.

  - btrfs: limit delalloc pages outside of     find_delalloc_range. (bnc#898375)

  - btrfs: read lock extent buffer while walking backrefs.

  - btrfs: remove unused wait queue in struct extent_buffer.

  - btrfs: replace EINVAL with ERANGE for resize when     ULLONG_MAX.

  - btrfs: replace error code from btrfs_drop_extents.

  - btrfs: unlock extent and pages on error in     cow_file_range.

  - btrfs: unlock inodes in correct order in clone ioctl.

  - btrfs_ioctl_clone: Move clone code into its own     function.

  - cifs: delay super block destruction until all     cifsFileInfo objects are gone. (bnc#903653)

  - drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before     suspend. (bnc#901638)

  - drm/i915: Undo gtt scratch pte unmapping again.
    (bnc#901638)

  - ext3: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage     type. (bnc#898554)

  - ext4: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage     type. (bnc#898554)

  - fix: use after free of xfs workqueues. (bnc#894895)

  - fs: add new FMODE flags: FMODE_32bithash and     FMODE_64bithash. (bnc#898554)

  - futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a     barrier (bnc#851603 (futex scalability series)).

  - futex: Fix a race condition between REQUEUE_PI and task     death (bnc#851603 (futex scalability series)).

  - ipv6: add support of peer address. (bnc#896415)

  - ipv6: fix a refcnt leak with peer addr. (bnc#896415)

  - megaraid_sas: Disable fastpath writes for non-RAID0.
    (bnc#897502)

  - mm: change __remove_pages() to call     release_mem_region_adjustable(). (bnc#891790)

  - netxen: Fix link event handling. (bnc#873228)

  - netxen: fix link notification order. (bnc#873228)

  - nfsd: rename int access to int may_flags in nfsd_open().
    (bnc#898554)

  - nfsd: vfs_llseek() with 32 or 64 bit offsets (hashes).
    (bnc#898554)

  - ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in     ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_page. (bnc#899843)

  - powerpc: Add smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked()     (bsc#893758).

  - powerpc: Add smp_mb()s to arch_spin_unlock_wait()     (bsc#893758).

  - powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref     implementation (bsc#893758).

  - powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using     arch_spin_value_unlocked() (bsc#893758).

  - refresh patches.xen/xen-blkback-multi-page-ring     (bnc#897708)).

  - remove filesize checks for sync I/O journal commit.
    (bnc#800255)

  - resource: add __adjust_resource() for internal use.
    (bnc#891790)

  - resource: add release_mem_region_adjustable().
    (bnc#891790)

  - revert PM / Hibernate: Iterate over set bits instead of     PFNs in swsusp_free(). (bnc#860441)

  - rpm/mkspec: Generate specfiles according to Factory     requirements.

  - rpm/mkspec: Generate a per-architecture per-package
    _constraints file

  - sched: Fix unreleased llc_shared_mask bit during CPU     hotplug. (bnc#891368)

  - scsi_dh_alua: disable ALUA handling for non-disk     devices. (bnc#876633)

  - usb: Do not re-read descriptors for wired devices in     usb_authorize_device(). (bnc#904358)

  - usbback: Do not access request fields in shared ring     more than once.

  - usbhid: add another mouse that needs QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL.
    (bnc#888607)

  - vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc. (bnc#868049)

  - x86, cpu hotplug: Fix stack frame warning     incheck_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable(). (bnc#887418)

  - x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages (Boot time     optimisations (bnc#895387)).

  - x86: Add check for number of available vectors before     CPU down. (bnc#887418)

  - x86: optimize resource lookups for ioremap (Boot time     optimisations (bnc#895387)).

  - x86: use optimized ioresource lookup in ioremap function     (Boot time optimisations (bnc#895387)).

  - xfs: Do not free EFIs before the EFDs are committed     (bsc#755743).

  - xfs: Do not reference the EFI after it is freed     (bsc#755743).

  - xfs: fix cil push sequence after log recovery     (bsc#755743).

  - zcrypt: support for extended number of ap domains     (bnc#894058, LTC#117041).

  - zcrypt: toleration of new crypto adapter hardware     (bnc#894058, LTC#117041).

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service :

  - CVE-2014-3610     Lars Bull of Google and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in     how KVM handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR     registers. A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw     to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) on the host.

  - CVE-2014-3611     Lars Bull of Google reported a race condition in the PIT     emulation code in KVM. A local guest user with access to     PIT i/o ports could exploit this flaw to cause a denial     of service (crash) on the host.

  - CVE-2014-3645/ CVE-2014-3646     The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security     discovered that the KVM subsystem did not handle the VM     exits gracefully for the invept (Invalidate Translations     Derived from EPT) and invvpid (Invalidate Translations     Based on VPID) instructions. On hosts with an Intel     processor and invept/invppid VM exit support, an     unprivileged guest user could use these instructions to     crash the guest.

  - CVE-2014-3647     Nadav Amit reported that KVM mishandles noncanonical     addresses when emulating instructions that change rip,     potentially causing a failed VM-entry. A guest user with     access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a     denial of service (system crash) of the guest.

  - CVE-2014-3673     Liu Wei of Red Hat discovered a flaw in     net/core/skbuff.c leading to a kernel panic when     receiving malformed ASCONF chunks. A remote attacker     could use this flaw to crash the system.

  - CVE-2014-3687     A flaw in the sctp stack was discovered leading to a     kernel panic when receiving duplicate ASCONF chunks. A     remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system.

  - CVE-2014-3688     It was found that the sctp stack is prone to a remotely     triggerable memory pressure issue caused by excessive     queueing. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause     denial-of-service conditions on the system.

  - CVE-2014-3690     Andy Lutomirski discovered that incorrect register     handling in KVM may lead to denial of service.

  - CVE-2014-7207     Several Debian developers reported an issue in the IPv6     networking subsystem. A local user with access to tun or     macvtap devices, or a virtual machine connected to such     a device, can cause a denial of service (system crash).

This update includes a bug fix related to CVE-2014-7207 that disables UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload) in the macvtap, tun, and virtio_net drivers. This will cause migration of a running VM from a host running an earlier kernel version to a host running this kernel version to fail, if the VM has been assigned a virtio network device. In order to migrate such a VM, it must be shut down first.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
286408	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-001964)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	1/15/2026	1/15/2026	medium
78821	Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2396-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	11/3/2014	1/19/2021	medium
78851	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20141028)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	11/4/2014	1/14/2021	medium
80250	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Number 10103)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/26/2014	1/19/2021	high
78784	Debian DSA-3060-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	11/3/2014	1/11/2021	high

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