The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-992929 advisory.

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

    net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()

    syzbot reported use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() [1].  This     causes a stack trace like below:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138     Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task kworker/u4:6/1214

    CPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066 #0     Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011     Workqueue: netns cleanup_net     Call Trace:
     <TASK>
     __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]      dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106      print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313      print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline]      kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491      cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138      notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87      call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945      call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline]      call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline]      netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10227 [inline]      netdev_run_todo+0xbc0/0x10f0 net/core/dev.c:10341      default_device_exit_batch+0x44e/0x590 net/core/dev.c:11334      ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:167      cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:594      process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289      worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436      kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376      ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302      </TASK>

    When unregistering a net device, unregister_netdevice_many_notify()     sets the device's reg_state to NETREG_UNREGISTERING, calls notifiers     with NETDEV_UNREGISTER, and adds the device to the todo list.

    Later on, devices in the todo list are processed by netdev_run_todo().
    netdev_run_todo() waits devices' reference count become 1 while     rebdoadcasting NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification.

    When cfusbl_device_notify() is called with NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple     times, the parent device might be freed.  This could cause UAF.
    Processing NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times also causes inbalance of     reference count for the module.

    This patch fixes the issue by accepting only first NETDEV_UNREGISTER     notification.

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.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-990754 advisory.

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

    net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()

    syzbot reported use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() [1].  This     causes a stack trace like below:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138     Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task kworker/u4:6/1214

    CPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066 #0     Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011     Workqueue: netns cleanup_net     Call Trace:
     <TASK>
     __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]      dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106      print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313      print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline]      kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491      cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138      notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87      call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945      call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline]      call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline]      netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10227 [inline]      netdev_run_todo+0xbc0/0x10f0 net/core/dev.c:10341      default_device_exit_batch+0x44e/0x590 net/core/dev.c:11334      ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:167      cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:594      process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289      worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436      kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376      ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302      </TASK>

    When unregistering a net device, unregister_netdevice_many_notify()     sets the device's reg_state to NETREG_UNREGISTERING, calls notifiers     with NETDEV_UNREGISTER, and adds the device to the todo list.

    Later on, devices in the todo list are processed by netdev_run_todo().
    netdev_run_todo() waits devices' reference count become 1 while     rebdoadcasting NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification.

    When cfusbl_device_notify() is called with NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple     times, the parent device might be freed.  This could cause UAF.
    Processing NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times also causes inbalance of     reference count for the module.

    This patch fixes the issue by accepting only first NETDEV_UNREGISTER     notification.

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.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-992672 advisory.

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

    net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()

    syzbot reported use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() [1].  This     causes a stack trace like below:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138     Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task kworker/u4:6/1214

    CPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066 #0     Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011     Workqueue: netns cleanup_net     Call Trace:
     <TASK>
     __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]      dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106      print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313      print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline]      kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491      cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138      notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87      call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945      call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline]      call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline]      netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10227 [inline]      netdev_run_todo+0xbc0/0x10f0 net/core/dev.c:10341      default_device_exit_batch+0x44e/0x590 net/core/dev.c:11334      ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:167      cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:594      process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289      worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436      kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376      ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302      </TASK>

    When unregistering a net device, unregister_netdevice_many_notify()     sets the device's reg_state to NETREG_UNREGISTERING, calls notifiers     with NETDEV_UNREGISTER, and adds the device to the todo list.

    Later on, devices in the todo list are processed by netdev_run_todo().
    netdev_run_todo() waits devices' reference count become 1 while     rebdoadcasting NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification.

    When cfusbl_device_notify() is called with NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple     times, the parent device might be freed.  This could cause UAF.
    Processing NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times also causes inbalance of     reference count for the module.

    This patch fixes the issue by accepting only first NETDEV_UNREGISTER     notification.

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.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() syzbot reported use-after-free in     cfusbl_device_notify() [1]. This causes a stack trace like below: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in     cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task     kworker/u4:6/1214 CPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066     #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue:
    netns cleanup_net Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134     lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313     print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline] kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491     cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138 notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200     kernel/notifier.c:87 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945     call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997     [inline] netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10227 [inline] netdev_run_todo+0xbc0/0x10f0     net/core/dev.c:10341 default_device_exit_batch+0x44e/0x590 net/core/dev.c:11334 ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170     net/core/net_namespace.c:167 cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:594     process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436     kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302 </TASK>     When unregistering a net device, unregister_netdevice_many_notify() sets the device's reg_state to     NETREG_UNREGISTERING, calls notifiers with NETDEV_UNREGISTER, and adds the device to the todo list. Later     on, devices in the todo list are processed by netdev_run_todo(). netdev_run_todo() waits devices'     reference count become 1 while rebdoadcasting NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification. When cfusbl_device_notify()     is called with NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times, the parent device might be freed. This could cause UAF.
    Processing NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times also causes inbalance of reference count for the module. This     patch fixes the issue by accepting only first NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification. (CVE-2023-53138)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
281394	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-992929)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	12/31/2025	12/31/2025	high
275107	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-990754)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	11/12/2025	11/12/2025	high
280170	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-992672)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	12/30/2025	12/30/2025	high
151965	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2021-4.0-0065	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/22/2021	3/23/2026	high
245482	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53138	Nessus	Misc.	8/7/2025	1/14/2026	high

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