USN-8729-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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:

• ARM32 architecture
• ARM64 architecture
• PowerPC architecture
• Compute Acceleration Framework
• Drivers core
• Bluetooth drivers
• Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA)
• EFI core
• GPU drivers
• Hardware monitoring drivers
• InfiniBand drivers
• Network drivers
• Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver
• SCSI subsystem
• SPI subsystem
• Network file systems library
• NTFS3 file system
• SMB network file system
• File systems infrastructure
• Software nodes and device properties
• Bluetooth subsystem
• Netfilter
• Tracing infrastructure
• io_uring subsystem
• IRQ subsystem
• KProbes tracing
• Memory management
• B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol
• Ethernet bridge
• Networking core
• IPv4 networking
• IPv6 networking
• Multipath TCP
• Phonet protocol
• SMC sockets
• TLS protocol
• Unix domain sockets
• VMware vSockets driver
• Wireless networking
• Key management
• Linux Security Modules (LSM) Framework
• ALSA framework
• AudioScience HPI driver; (CVE-2025-71289, CVE-2026-23469, CVE-2026-31420, CVE-2026-31486, CVE-2026-31560, CVE-2026-46158, CVE-2026-46170, CVE-2026-46275, CVE-2026-46315, CVE-2026-52912, CVE-2026-52915, CVE-2026-52916, CVE-2026-52918, CVE-2026-52919, CVE-2026-52921, CVE-2026-52922, CVE-2026-52926, CVE-2026-52941, CVE-2026-53357, CVE-2026-64015, CVE-2026-64018, CVE-2026-64025, CVE-2026-64029, CVE-2026-64032, CVE-2026-64033, CVE-2026-64034, CVE-2026-64039, CVE-2026-64046, CVE-2026-64047, CVE-2026-64048, CVE-2026-64051, CVE-2026-64055, CVE-2026-64056, CVE-2026-64064, CVE-2026-64073, CVE-2026-64083, CVE-2026-64084, CVE-2026-64085, CVE-2026-64086, CVE-2026-64087, CVE-2026-64088, CVE-2026-64089, CVE-2026-64092, CVE-2026-64096, CVE-2026-64097, CVE-2026-64098, CVE-2026-64102, CVE-2026-64103, CVE-2026-64106, CVE-2026-64108, CVE-2026-64109, CVE-2026-64111, CVE-2026-64113, CVE-2026-64114, CVE-2026-64115, CVE-2026-64116, CVE-2026-64118, CVE-2026-64121, CVE-2026-64125, CVE-2026-64126, CVE-2026-64127, CVE-2026-64128, CVE-2026-64133, CVE-2026-64134, CVE-2026-64135, CVE-2026-64136, CVE-2026-64137, CVE-2026-64138, CVE-2026-64144, CVE-2026-64147, CVE-2026-64148, CVE-2026-64153, CVE-2026-64155, CVE-2026-64163, CVE-2026-64165, CVE-2026-