USN-8957-1: authd vulnerability
USN-8957-1
Summary
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- x86 architecture
- InfiniBand drivers
- Network drivers
- Mellanox network drivers
- File systems infrastructure
- IPv4 networking
- Network traffic control
- TCP network protocol
- B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol
- IPv6 networking
- Multipath TCP
- Netfilter
- Open vSwitch
- RxRPC session sockets
- SCTP protocol
- SMC sockets; (CVE-2026-43083, CVE-2026-43197, CVE-2026-43198, CVE-2026-43465, CVE-2026-46242, CVE-2026-46325, CVE-2026-46331, CVE-2026-52914, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-52931, CVE-2026-53151, CVE-2026-53176, CVE-2026-53212, CVE-2026-53215, CVE-2026-53224, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53228, CVE-2026-53246, CVE-2026-53247, CVE-2026-53359, CVE-2026-64531)
Products covered
A separate affected-products list was not included in the collected bulletin.
Remediation
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- x86 architecture
- InfiniBand drivers
- Network drivers
- Mellanox network drivers
- File systems infrastructure
- IPv4 networking
- Network traffic control
- TCP network protocol
- B.A.T.M.A.N.
CVEs in this advisory 21
Updates
- Published by Ubuntu
The publication date reported by the vendor.
- Added to SecurityAlert
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- Confirmed at the source
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