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:
- Hardware crypto device drivers
- NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver
- Network drivers
- GFS2 file system
- OCFS2 file system
- SMB network file system
- B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol
- Ceph Core library
- IPv4 networking
- IPv6 networking
- Netfilter
- Open vSwitch
- RxRPC session sockets
- SCTP protocol
- TIPC protocol; (CVE-2026-52914, CVE-2026-52931, CVE-2026-52955, CVE-2026-52958, CVE-2026-52982, CVE-2026-52986, CVE-2026-52993, CVE-2026-52999, CVE-2026-53002, CVE-2026-53006, CVE-2026-53010, CVE-2026-53043, CVE-2026-53045, CVE-2026-53046, CVE-2026-53049, CVE-2026-53055, CVE-2026-53088, CVE-2026-53151, CVE-2026-53175, CVE-2026-53215, CVE-2026-53216, CVE-2026-53224, CVE-2026-53246, CVE-2026-53247, CVE-2026-53260, CVE-2026-53309, 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:
- Hardware crypto device drivers
- NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver
- Network drivers
- GFS2 file system
- OCFS2 file system
- SMB network file system
- B.A.T.M.A.N.
CVEs in this advisory 27
CVE-2026-52914CVE-2026-52931CVE-2026-52955CVE-2026-52958CVE-2026-52982CVE-2026-52986CVE-2026-52993CVE-2026-52999CVE-2026-53002CVE-2026-53006CVE-2026-53010CVE-2026-53043CVE-2026-53045CVE-2026-53046CVE-2026-53049CVE-2026-53055CVE-2026-53088CVE-2026-53151CVE-2026-53175CVE-2026-53215CVE-2026-53216CVE-2026-53224CVE-2026-53246CVE-2026-53247CVE-2026-53260CVE-2026-53309CVE-2026-64531
Updates
- Published by Ubuntu
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