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USN-8728-1: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

USN-8728-1: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Ubuntu September 7, 2026

It was discovered that some Arm processors could complete a broadcast translation lookaside buffer (TLB) invalidation before memory writes made through the invalidated translation were globally observed. A local attacker could possibly use this to write to memory after permission to do so had been revoked, bypassing memory protections or escalating privileges. ( CVE-2025-10263 ) It was discovered that some AMD Zen 2 processors did not properly isolate shared resources in the operation cache. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt instructions executed at a higher privilege level, resulting in privilege escalation. ( CVE-2025-54518 ) 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 platform...

It was discovered that some Arm processors could complete a broadcast translation lookaside buffer (TLB) invalidation before memory writes made through the invalidated translation were globally observed. A local attacker could possibly use this to write to memory after permission to do so had been revoked, bypassing memory protections or escalating privileges. ( CVE-2025-10263 )

It was discovered that some AMD Zen 2 processors did not properly isolate shared resources in the operation cache. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt instructions executed at a higher privilege level, resulting in privilege escalation. ( CVE-2025-54518 )

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:

It was discovered that some Arm processors could complete a broadcast translation lookaside buffer (TLB) invalidation before memory writes made through the invalidated translation were globally observed. A local attacker could possibly use this to write to memory after permission to do so had been revoked, bypassing memory protections or escalating privileges. ( CVE-2025-10263 ) It was discovered that some AMD Zen 2 processors did not properly isolate shared resources in the operation cache. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt instructions executed at a higher privilege level, resulting in privilege escalation. ( CVE-2025-54518 ) 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 platform drivers; ARM64 architecture; Cryptographic API; PSP security protocol; User-space API (UAPI); Kernel build system; ARM32 architecture; MIPS architecture; PowerPC architecture; RISC-V architecture; S390 architecture; User-Mode Linux (UML); x86 architecture; Block layer subsystem; Compute Acceleration Framework; Intel NPU Driver; ACPI drivers; Android drivers; Auxiliary display drivers; Drivers core; DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; Rados block device (RBD) driver; Ublk userspace block driver; Compressed RAM block device driver; Bluetooth drivers; Bus devices; Character device driver; Hardware random number generator core; Clock framework and drivers; CPU frequency scaling framework; Hardware crypto device drivers; Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework; DPLL subsystem; EDAC drivers; Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA); EFI core; Intel Stratix 10 firmware drivers; FPGA Framework; FWCTL subsystem; GPIO subsystem; GPU drivers; HID subsystem; Hardware monitoring drivers; CoreSight HW tracing drivers; I2C subsystem; I3C subsystem; IIO subsystem; IIO ADC drivers; InfiniBand drivers; Input Device core drivers; Input Device (Mouse) drivers; IOMMU subsystem; IRQ chip drivers; Mailbox framework; Multiple devices driver; Media drivers; NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; Multifunction device drivers; Fastrpc Driver; MMC subsystem; MTD block device drivers; Network drivers; Ethernet bonding driver; Mellanox network drivers; Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; STMicroelectronics network drivers; Texas Instruments network drivers; MediaTek network drivers; NTB driver; NVME drivers; NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers; Parport drivers; PCI subsystem; PHY drivers; Pin controllers subsystem; Chrome hardware platform drivers; ACPI WMI driver; Generic PM domains; MediaTek PM domains; System reset/shutdown drivers; Power sequencing drivers; Power supply drivers; PTP clock framework; Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; MPAM driver; Amlogic Meson reset controller drivers; RPMSG subsystem; S/390 drivers; SCSI subsystem; SLIMbus drivers; NVIDIA Tegra Control Backbone (CBB) driver; SPI subsystem; Greybus lights staging drivers; Media staging drivers; Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers; VME bus staging drivers; TCM subsystem; Trusted Execution Environment drivers; Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers; TTY drivers; Userspace I/O drivers; Cadence USB3 driver; USB Device Class drivers; ULPI bus; DesignWare USB2 driver; DesignWare USB3 driver; Faraday FOTG210 USB2 dual-role controller driver; USB Gadget drivers; USB Host Controller drivers; USB ChaosKey driver; Siemens ID Mouse USB driver; IOWarrior USB driver; LD Didactic USB driver; LEGO USB Tower driver; Intel USBIO USB I/O expander driver; USS720 USB parallel port adapter driver; MediaTek USB3 DRD driver; USB Dual Role (OTG-ready) Controller drivers; USB Serial drivers; USB Type-C support driver; USB Type-C Port Controller Manager driver; TI TPS6598x USB Power Delivery controller driver; USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver; USB over IP driver; vDPA drivers; VFIO drivers; Framebuffer layer; TSM AMD SEV Guest driver; Virtio drivers; Xen hypervisor drivers; 9P distributed file system; File systems infrastructure; AFS file system; BTRFS file system; Ceph distributed file system; EROFS file system; exFAT file system; F2FS file system; FUSE (File system in Userspace); GFS2 file system; HFS file system; HFS+ file system; HugeTLB file system; Network file systems library; Network file system (NFS) client; Network file system (NFS) server daemon; NILFS2 file system; File system notification infrastructure; NTFS3 file system; OCFS2 file system; Overlay file system; Proc file system; Diskquota system; SMB network file system; Tracing file system; UDF file system; XFS file system; DRM TTM subsystem; Key management; BPF subsystem; Control group (cgroup); Kernel CPU control infrastructure; Memory management; Tracing infrastructure; QorIQ DPAA2 FSL-MC bus driver; Freescale ENETC Ethernet drivers; Software nodes and device properties; Glob pattern matching library; Memory Management; KVM subsystem; Linked list library; Mellanox drivers; Netfilter; padata parallel execution mechanism; PPP protocol drivers and compressors; Socket messages infrastructure; Network traffic control; Bluetooth subsystem; Networking core; Network shaper API; Network sockets; TCP network protocol; XFRM subsystem; io_uring subsystem; IPC subsystem; Audit subsystem; DMA mapping infrastructure; Perf events; Kernel exit() syscall; Kernel fork() syscall; Kernel futex primitives; IRQ subsystem; Kexec HandOver (KHO); Locking primitives; Kernel module support; Padata parallel execution mechanism; RCU subsystem; Scheduler infrastructure; Signal handling mechanism; Timer subsystem; Cryptographic library; Debug objects infrastructure; Scatterlist API; KProbes tracing; 6LoWPAN network protocol; IEEE 802 network protocols; 802.1Q VLAN protocol; 9P file system network protocol; B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol; Ethernet bridge; Ceph Core library; Devlink API; Distributed Switch Architecture; Ethtool driver; Handshake API; HSR network protocol; IEEE802154.4 network protocol; IPv4 networking; IPv6 networking; IUCV driver; L2TP protocol; MAC80211 subsystem; IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem; Multipath TCP; NetLabel subsystem; NFC subsystem; Open vSwitch; Phonet protocol; Qualcomm IPC Router (QRTR); RDS protocol; RxRPC session sockets; SCTP protocol; SMC sockets; TIPC protocol; TLS protocol; Unix domain sockets; VMware vSockets driver; Wireless networking; eXpress Data Path; AppArmor security module; Linux Security Modules (LSM) Framework; Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework; SELinux security module; Apple Onboard Audio ALSA driver; ALSA framework; FireWire sound drivers; HD-audio driver; Gravis UltraSound ALSA driver; AudioScience HPI driver; C-Media CMI8x38 ALSA driver; ESS Solo-1 ALSA driver; ICE1712/ICE1724 (Envy24) ALSA driver; Yamaha YMFPCI ALSA driver; FourSemi audio codecs; Texas InstrumentS Audio (ASoC/HDA) drivers; Simple audio multiplexer codec driver; Wolfson Microelectronics audio codecs; QCOM ASoC drivers; Renesas ASoC drivers; SoundWire (SDCA) ASoC drivers; SOF drivers; STI ASoC drivers; USB sound devices; Virtio sound driver

It was discovered that some Arm processors could complete a broadcast translation lookaside buffer (TLB) invalidation before memory writes made through the invalidated translation were globally observed. A local attacker could possibly use this to write to memory after permission to do so had been revoked, bypassing memory protections or escalating privileges. ( CVE-2025-10263 )

It was discovered that some AMD Zen 2 processors did not properly isolate shared resources in the operation cache. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt instructions executed at a higher privilege level, resulting in privilege escalation. ( CVE-2025-54518 )

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 platform drivers;

PSP security protocol;

User-space API (UAPI);

PowerPC architecture;

User-Mode Linux (UML);

Block layer subsystem;

Compute Acceleration Framework;

Auxiliary display drivers;

DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers;

Rados block device (RBD) driver;

Ublk userspace block driver;

Compressed RAM block device driver;

Character device driver;

Hardware random number generator core;

Clock framework and drivers;

CPU frequency scaling framework;

Hardware crypto device drivers;

Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework;

Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA);

Intel Stratix 10 firmware drivers;

Hardware monitoring drivers;

CoreSight HW tracing drivers;

Input Device core drivers;

Input Device (Mouse) drivers;

Multiple devices driver;

NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver;

Multifunction device drivers;

MTD block device drivers;

Ethernet bonding driver;

Mellanox network drivers;

Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver;

STMicroelectronics network drivers;

Texas Instruments network drivers;

MediaTek network drivers;

NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers;

Pin controllers subsystem;

Chrome hardware platform drivers;

System reset/shutdown drivers;

Power sequencing drivers;

Power supply drivers;

Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;

Amlogic Meson reset controller drivers;

NVIDIA Tegra Control Backbone (CBB) driver;

Greybus lights staging drivers;

Media staging drivers;

Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers;

VME bus staging drivers;

Trusted Execution Environment drivers;

Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers;

Userspace I/O drivers;

USB Device Class drivers;

DesignWare USB2 driver;

DesignWare USB3 driver;

Faraday FOTG210 USB2 dual-role controller driver;

USB Host Controller drivers;

Siemens ID Mouse USB driver;

IOWarrior USB driver;

LD Didactic USB driver;

LEGO USB Tower driver;

Intel USBIO USB I/O expander driver;

USS720 USB parallel port adapter driver;

MediaTek USB3 DRD driver;

USB Dual Role (OTG-ready) Controller drivers;

USB Type-C support driver;

USB Type-C Port Controller Manager driver;

TI TPS6598x USB Power Delivery controller driver;

USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;

TSM AMD SEV Guest driver;

Xen hypervisor drivers;

9P distributed file system;

File systems infrastructure;

Ceph distributed file system;

FUSE (File system in Userspace);

Network file systems library;

Network file system (NFS) client;

Network file system (NFS) server daemon;

File system notification infrastructure;

SMB network file system;

Control group (cgroup);

Kernel CPU control infrastructure;

Tracing infrastructure;

QorIQ DPAA2 FSL-MC bus driver;

Freescale ENETC Ethernet drivers;

Software nodes and device properties;

Glob pattern matching library;

padata parallel execution mechanism;

PPP protocol drivers and compressors;

Socket messages infrastructure;

Network traffic control;

TCP network protocol;

DMA mapping infrastructure;

Kernel exit() syscall;

Kernel fork() syscall;

Kernel futex primitives;

Kexec HandOver (KHO);

Kernel module support;

Padata parallel execution mechanism;

Scheduler infrastructure;

Signal handling mechanism;

Cryptographic library;

Debug objects infrastructure;

6LoWPAN network protocol;

IEEE 802 network protocols;

802.1Q VLAN protocol;

9P file system network protocol;

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

Distributed Switch Architecture;

HSR network protocol;

IEEE802154.4 network protocol;

IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem;

Qualcomm IPC Router (QRTR);

RxRPC session sockets;

VMware vSockets driver;

AppArmor security module;

Linux Security Modules (LSM) Framework;

Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;

SELinux security module;

Apple Onboard Audio ALSA driver;

FireWire sound drivers;

Gravis UltraSound ALSA driver;

AudioScience HPI driver;

C-Media CMI8x38 ALSA driver;

ESS Solo-1 ALSA driver;

ICE1712/ICE1724 (Envy24) ALSA driver;

Yamaha YMFPCI ALSA driver;

FourSemi audio codecs;

Texas InstrumentS Audio (ASoC/HDA) drivers;

Simple audio multiplexer codec driver;

Wolfson Microelectronics audio codecs;

Renesas ASoC drivers;

SoundWire (SDCA) ASoC drivers;

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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