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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-8962-1

USN-8962-1: Linux kernel (Azure CVM) vulnerabilities

Severity not listed 1 CVE Published Nov 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM UTC

Summary

Duoming Zhou discovered race conditions in the AX.25 amateur radio protocol implementation in the Linux kernel, leading to use-after-free vulnerabilities. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2022-1205)

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:

- USB Gadget drivers;

- ARM32 architecture;

- ARM64 architecture;

- OpenRISC architecture;

- PowerPC architecture;

- RISC-V architecture;

- S390 architecture;

- x86 architecture;

- Block layer subsystem;

- Speakup Console Speech Driver;

- ACPI drivers;

- Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers;

- Auxiliary display drivers;

- Drivers core;

- Bluetooth drivers;

- Character device driver;

- TPM device driver;

- Clock framework and drivers;

- Clocksource drivers;

- CPU frequency scaling framework;

- Hardware crypto device drivers;

- DMA engine subsystem;

- EDAC drivers;

- Google firmware drivers;

- FPGA Framework;

- GPIO subsystem;

- GPU drivers;

- HID subsystem;

- HSI subsystem;

- Hardware monitoring drivers;

- CoreSight HW tracing drivers;

- I2C subsystem;

- I3C subsystem;

- IIO subsystem;

- InfiniBand drivers;

- On-Chip Interconnect management framework;

- IOMMU subsystem;

- IRQ chip drivers;

- Multiple devices driver;

- Media drivers;

- Analog Devices digital potentiometer driver;

- Broadcom VK accelerator driver;

- Fastrpc Driver;

- MMC subsystem;

- MTD block device drivers;

- Ethernet bonding driver;

- Network drivers;

- Mellanox network drivers;

- STMicroelectronics network drivers;

- MediaTek network drivers;

- Near Field Communication (NFC) drivers;

- NTB driver;

- NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) drivers;

- NVME drivers;

- Device tree and open firmware driver;

- PA-RISC drivers;

- PCI subsystem;

- PHY drivers;

- Pin controllers subsystem;

- Chrome hardware platform drivers;

- Mellanox platform drivers;

- Microsoft Surface platform drivers;

- x86 platform drivers;

- Power supply drivers;

- RapidIO drivers;

- Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;

- Remote Processor subsystem;

- RPMSG subsystem;

- Real Time Clock drivers;

- S/390 drivers;

- SCSI subsystem;

- SPI subsystem;

- small TFT LCD display modules;

- Greybus lights staging drivers;

- Media staging drivers;

- Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers;

- TCM subsystem;

- Thermal drivers;

- Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers;

- TTY drivers;

- Userspace I/O drivers;

- USB DSL drivers;

- Cypress C67X00 USB driver;

- USB core drivers;

- USB Host Controller drivers;

- Mustek MDC800 USB digital camera driver;

- USB Serial drivers;

- USB Mass Storage drivers;

- USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;

- USB over IP driver;

- vDPA drivers;

- VFIO drivers;

- Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem;

- Framebuffer layer;

- W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver;

- Watchdog drivers;

- File systems infrastructure;

- BFS file system;

- BTRFS file system;

- Ceph distributed file system;

- eCrypt file system;

- EROFS file system;

- Ext4 file system;

- F2FS file system;

- FAT file system;

- FUSE (File system in Userspace);

- HFS+ file system;

- HugeTLB file system;

- JFS file system;

- Network file system (NFS) client;

- Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

- NILFS2 file system;

- File system notification infrastructure;

- NTFS3 file system;

- OCFS2 file system;

- OrangeFS file system;

- SMB network file system;

- SquashFS file system;

- UBI file system;

- UDF file system;

- XFS file system;

- BPF subsystem;

- IPv4 networking;

- Internal shared memory driver;

- Networking core;

- Scheduler infrastructure;

- Sun RPC protocol;

- Virtio network driver;

- Amateur Radio drivers;

- IP tunnels definitions;

- Network traffic control;

- SCTP protocol;

- TCP network protocol;

- eXpress Data Path;

- XFRM subsystem;

- User-space API (UAPI);

- io_uring subsystem;

- Audit subsystem;

- Perf events;

- KCOV code coverage framework;

- Locking primitives;

- RCU subsystem;

- Signal handling mechanism;

- Timer subsystem;

- Tracing infrastructure;

- Kernel build system;

- Heterogeneous memory management;

- UCS-2 string library;

- Memory management;

- Appletalk network protocol;

- B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;

- Bluetooth subsystem;

- Ethernet bridge;

- CAN network layer;

- Ceph Core library;

- Distributed Switch Architecture;

- HSR network protocol;

- IEEE802154.4 network protocol;

- IPv6 networking;

- IUCV driver;

- KCM (Kernel Connection Multiplexor) sockets driver;

- MAC80211 subsystem;

- MultiProtocol Label Switching driver;

- Multipath TCP;

- Netfilter;

- NFC subsystem;

- Open vSwitch;

- Packet sockets;

- Phonet protocol;

- Qualcomm IPC Router (QRTR);

- RDS protocol;

- SMC sockets;

- TIPC protocol;

- VMware vSockets driver;

- Wireless networking;

- AppArmor security module;

- Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;

- Landlock security;

- SELinux security module;

- Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel framework;

- ALSA framework;

- Generic PCM loopback sound driver;

- Generic sound devices;

- ESS ES18xx ALSA driver;

- Digigram PCXHR ALSA driver;

- Cirrus Logic audio codecs;

- QCOM ASoC drivers;

- Realtek audio codecs;

- WCD audio codecs;

- Amlogic Meson SoC drivers;

- Rockchip ASoC drivers;

- SoC audio core drivers;

- Spreadtrum ASoC drivers;

- STI ASoC drivers;

- Xilinx ASoC drivers;

- USB sound devices;

- Perf tools;

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Products covered

A separate affected-products list was not included in the collected bulletin.

Remediation

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

  • USB Gadget drivers
  • ARM32 architecture
  • ARM64 architecture
  • OpenRISC architecture
  • PowerPC architecture
  • RISC-V architecture
  • S390 architecture
  • x86 architecture
  • Block layer subsystem
  • Speakup Console Speech Driver
  • ACPI drivers
  • Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers
  • Auxiliary display drivers
  • Drivers core
  • Bluetooth drivers
  • Character device driver
  • TPM device driver
  • Clock framework and drivers
  • Clocksource drivers
  • CPU frequency scaling framework
  • Hardware crypto device drivers
  • DMA engine subsystem
  • EDAC drivers
  • Google firmware drivers
  • FPGA Framework
  • GPIO subsystem
  • GPU drivers
  • HID subsystem
  • HSI subsystem
  • Hardware monitoring drivers
  • CoreSight HW tracing drivers;

CVEs in this advisory 1

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