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Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-989510)

🗓️ 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Unity Linux kernel security update fixes use-after-free in netfilter __nf_register_net_hook().

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(273013);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/11/05");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2022-48912");

  script_name(english:"Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-989510)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The Unity Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
UTSA-2025-989510 advisory.

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

    netfilter: fix use-after-free in __nf_register_net_hook()

    We must not dereference @new_hooks after nf_hook_mutex has been released,
    because other threads might have freed our allocated hooks already.

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nf_hook_entries_get_hook_ops include/linux/netfilter.h:130 [inline]
    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hooks_validate net/netfilter/core.c:171 [inline]
    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __nf_register_net_hook+0x77a/0x820 net/netfilter/core.c:438
    Read of size 2 at addr ffff88801c1a8000 by task syz-executor237/4430

    CPU: 1 PID: 4430 Comm: syz-executor237 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc5-syzkaller-00306-g2293be58d6a1 #0
    Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
    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+0x8d/0x336 mm/kasan/report.c:255
     __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:442 [inline]
     kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459
     nf_hook_entries_get_hook_ops include/linux/netfilter.h:130 [inline]
     hooks_validate net/netfilter/core.c:171 [inline]
     __nf_register_net_hook+0x77a/0x820 net/netfilter/core.c:438
     nf_register_net_hook+0x114/0x170 net/netfilter/core.c:571
     nf_register_net_hooks+0x59/0xc0 net/netfilter/core.c:587
     nf_synproxy_ipv6_init+0x85/0xe0 net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c:1218
     synproxy_tg6_check+0x30d/0x560 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_SYNPROXY.c:81
     xt_check_target+0x26c/0x9e0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1038
     check_target net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:530 [inline]
     find_check_entry.constprop.0+0x7f1/0x9e0 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:573
     translate_table+0xc8b/0x1750 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:735
     do_replace net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1153 [inline]
     do_ip6t_set_ctl+0x56e/0xb90 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1639
     nf_setsockopt+0x83/0xe0 net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:101
     ipv6_setsockopt+0x122/0x180 net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c:1024
     rawv6_setsockopt+0xd3/0x6a0 net/ipv6/raw.c:1084
     __sys_setsockopt+0x2db/0x610 net/socket.c:2180
     __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2191 [inline]
     __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2188 [inline]
     __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xba/0x150 net/socket.c:2188
     do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
     do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
    RIP: 0033:0x7f65a1ace7d9
    Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 71 15 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d
    89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
    RSP: 002b:00007f65a1a7f308 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000036
    RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 00007f65a1ace7d9
    RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000029 RDI: 0000000000000003
    RBP: 00007f65a1b574c8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000020000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f65a1b55130
    R13: 00007f65a1b574c0 R14: 00007f65a1b24090 R15: 0000000000022000
     </TASK>

    The buggy address belongs to the page:
    page:ffffea0000706a00 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1c1a8
    flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
    raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001c1b108 ffffea000046dd08 0000000000000000
    raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
    page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
    page_owner tracks the page as freed
    page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask
    0x52dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), pid 4430, ts 1061781545818, free_ts
    1061791488993
     prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2434 [inline]
     get_page_from_freelist+0xa72/0x2f50 mm/page_alloc.c:4165
     __alloc_pages+0x1b2/0x500 mm/page_alloc.c:5389
     __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:572 [inline]
     alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:595 [inline]
     kmalloc_large_node+0x62/0x130 mm/slub.c:4438
     __kmalloc_node+0x35a/0x4a0 mm/slub.
    ---truncated---

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.");
  # https://src.uniontech.com/#/security_advisory_detail?utsa_id=UTSA-2025-989510
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?04ffb60a");
  # https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024082215-CVE-2022-48912-3f55@gregkh
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?cb0791fb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48912");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected kernel package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-48912");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/04/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/11/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/11/05");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Unity Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info2.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/UOS-Server/release", "Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}
include('rpm2.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_product = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/product');
if (isnull(os_product) || 'UOS Server' >!< os_product) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'UOS Server');
var os_version = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/version');
if (isnull(os_version)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'UOS Server');
if (! preg(pattern:"^20.1070a([^0-9]|$)", string:os_version)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'UOS Server 20.1070a', 'UOS Server ' + os_version);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('aarch64' >!< cpu && 'amd64' >!< cpu && 'loongarch64' >!< cpu && 'x86_64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'UOS Server', cpu);


var constraints = [
  {
    'release': '20',
    'sp': '1070a',
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'kernel-5.10.0-79.4.2', 'sp':'1070a', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'kernel-5.10.0-79.4.2', 'sp':'1070a', 'cpu':'amd64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'kernel-5.10.0-79.4.2', 'sp':'1070a', 'cpu':'loongarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'kernel-5.10.0-79.4.2', 'sp':'1070a', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
    ]
  }
];

var os_release = get_one_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/release');
var os_sp = get_one_kb_item('Host/*/minor_release');

var flag = 0;
var reference;
var sp;
var _cpu;
var el_string;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp;
var epoch;
var allowmaj;
var exists_check;
var cves;
foreach var constraint ( constraints ) {
  # Check that the target release is equal to the affected release
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['release'])){
    if (constraint['release'] != os_release) continue;
  }
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['sp'])){
    if (constraint['sp'] != os_sp) continue;
  }
  foreach var pkg ( constraint['pkgs'] ) {
    reference = NULL;
    sp = NULL;
    _cpu = NULL;
    el_string = NULL;
    rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    epoch = NULL;
    allowmaj = NULL;
    exists_check = NULL;
    cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (reference &&
        ## (no known rpm to check OR known rpm_exists)
        (!exists_check || rpm_exists(rpm:exists_check)) &&
        rpm_check(sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'kernel');
}

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05 Nov 2025 00:00Current
6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6
CVSS 3.17.8
EPSS0.00227
SSVC
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