USN-8715-1: Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities

Siebe Devroe, Héloïse Gollier, and Mathy Vanhoef discovered that the WiFi implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle aggregated frames in mesh networks, due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-24588 . A physically proximate attacker could use this issue to inject packets. ( CVE-2025-27558 ) 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; Cryptographic API; InfiniBand drivers; Media drivers; NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; Network drivers; NVME drivers; File systems infrastructure; Ext4 file system; OCFS2 file system; IPv4 networking; Network traffic control; TCP network...

Siebe Devroe, Héloïse Gollier, and Mathy Vanhoef discovered that the WiFi implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle aggregated frames in mesh networks, due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-24588 . A physically proximate attacker could use this issue to inject packets. ( CVE-2025-27558 )

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:

NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver;

File systems infrastructure;

Network traffic control;

Siebe Devroe, Héloïse Gollier, and Mathy Vanhoef discovered that the WiFi implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle aggregated frames in mesh networks, due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-24588 . A physically proximate attacker could use this issue to inject packets. ( CVE-2025-27558 ) 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; Cryptographic API; InfiniBand drivers; Media drivers; NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; Network drivers; NVME drivers; File systems infrastructure; Ext4 file system; OCFS2 file system; IPv4 networking; Network traffic control; TCP network protocol; Locking primitives; B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol; Ceph Core library; IPv6 networking; Multipath TCP; Netfilter; SCTP protocol; SMC sockets; TIPC protocol

Siebe Devroe, Héloïse Gollier, and Mathy Vanhoef discovered that the WiFi implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle aggregated frames in mesh networks, due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-24588 . A physically proximate attacker could use this issue to inject packets. ( CVE-2025-27558 )

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:

NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver;

File systems infrastructure;

Network traffic control;

TCP network protocol;

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

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

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