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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-8636-2

USN-8636-2: Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities

Severity not listed 24 CVEs Published Aug 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM UTC

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
  • Media drivers
  • Network drivers
  • Mellanox network drivers
  • Texas Instruments network drivers
  • NVME drivers
  • File systems infrastructure
  • SMB network file system
  • IPv4 networking
  • Network traffic control
  • TCP network protocol
  • Locking primitives
  • Memory management
  • IPv6 networking
  • Multipath TCP
  • Netfilter
  • RxRPC session sockets
  • SCTP protocol
  • SMC sockets; (CVE-2026-31405, CVE-2026-31414, CVE-2026-31501, CVE-2026-31589, CVE-2026-31633, CVE-2026-31636, CVE-2026-31705, CVE-2026-43198, CVE-2026-43379, CVE-2026-43465, CVE-2026-43499, CVE-2026-46113, CVE-2026-46137, CVE-2026-46242, CVE-2026-46331, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-52989, CVE-2026-53086, CVE-2026-53131, CVE-2026-53176, CVE-2026-53212, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53228, CVE-2026-53359)

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
  • Media drivers
  • Network drivers
  • Mellanox network drivers
  • Texas Instruments network drivers
  • NVME drivers
  • File systems infrastructure
  • SMB network file system
  • IPv4 networking
  • Network traffic control
  • TCP network protocol
  • Locking primitives
  • Memory management
  • IPv6 networking
  • Multipath TCP
  • Netfilter
  • RxRPC session sockets
  • SCTP protocol
  • SMC sockets; (CVE-2026-31405, CVE-2026-31414, CVE-2026-31501, CVE-2026-31589, CVE-2026-31633, CVE-2026-31636, CVE-2026-31705, CVE-2026-43198, CVE-2026-43379, CVE-2026-43465, CVE-2026-43499, CVE-2026-46113, CVE-2026-46137, CVE-2026-46242, CVE-2026-46331, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-52989, CVE-2026-53086, CVE-2026-53131, CVE

CVEs in this advisory 24

Updates

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