It was discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle canceled task work when processing certain wait operations, leading to the operation being performed in the wrong task context. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). ( CVE-2026-81010 ) 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; MIPS architecture; OpenRISC architecture; PowerPC architecture; RISC-V architecture; S390 architecture; x86 architecture; Intel NPU Driver; ACPI drivers; Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; Auxiliary display drivers; Ublk userspace block...
It was discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle canceled task work when processing certain wait operations, leading to the operation being performed in the wrong task context. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). ( CVE-2026-81010 )
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:
OpenRISC architecture;
PowerPC architecture;
Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers;
Auxiliary display drivers;
Ublk userspace block...
It was discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle canceled task work when processing certain wait operations, leading to the operation being performed in the wrong task context. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). ( CVE-2026-81010 ) 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; MIPS architecture; OpenRISC architecture; PowerPC architecture; RISC-V architecture; S390 architecture; x86 architecture; Intel NPU Driver; ACPI drivers; Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; Auxiliary display drivers; Ublk userspace block driver; Bluetooth drivers; Character device driver; CPU idle management framework; Hardware crypto device drivers; CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers; ARM SCMI message protocol; GPIO subsystem; GPU drivers; HID subsystem; HSI subsystem; Hardware monitoring drivers; I2C subsystem; I3C subsystem; IIO subsystem; InfiniBand drivers; Input Device core drivers; On-Chip Interconnect management framework; IOMMU subsystem; Multiple devices driver; Media drivers; Fastrpc Driver; Amazon Nitro Secure Module driver; MMC subsystem; MTD block device drivers; Ethernet bonding driver; Network drivers; Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; Texas Instruments network drivers; MediaTek network drivers; NTB driver; NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) drivers; NVME drivers; NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers; PCI subsystem; Chrome hardware platform drivers; x86 platform drivers; Power supply drivers; RapidIO drivers; Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; S/390 drivers; SCSI subsystem; SLIMbus drivers; NVIDIA Tegra SoC drivers; Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers; TCM subsystem; Trusted Execution Environment drivers; Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers; TTY drivers; USB Device Class drivers; Faraday FOTG210 USB2 dual-role controller driver; USB Gadget drivers; USB Host Controller drivers; Siemens ID Mouse USB driver; IOWarrior USB driver; LD Didactic USB driver; LEGO USB Tower driver; USB Serial drivers; USB Type-C support driver; USB Type-C Port Controller Manager driver; USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver; USB over IP driver; VFIO drivers; Framebuffer layer; W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver; AFS file system; BTRFS file system; Ceph distributed file system; eCrypt file system; File systems infrastructure; Ext4 file system; F2FS file system; FUSE (File system in Userspace); Network file system (NFS) server daemon; NILFS2 file system; NTFS3 file system; OCFS2 file system; OrangeFS file system; SMB network file system; UBI file system; Drivers core; Tracing infrastructure; KProbes tracing; Networking core; Netfilter; Sun RPC protocol; IPv6 networking; Bluetooth subsystem; IPv4 networking; IP tunnels definitions; SCTP protocol; User-space API (UAPI); IPC subsystem; Audit subsystem; BPF subsystem; DMA mapping infrastructure; Kernel futex primitives; Scheduler infrastructure; Signal handling mechanism; Memory management; 6LoWPAN network protocol; IEEE 802 network protocols; B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol; Ethernet bridge; CAN network layer; Ceph Core library; Devlink API; HSR network protocol; IEEE802154.4 network protocol; IUCV driver; MAC80211 subsystem; Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP); MultiProtocol Label Switching driver; Multipath TCP; NetLabel subsystem; Open vSwitch; Packet sockets; RDS protocol; Network traffic control; SMC sockets; Network sockets; VMware vSockets driver; XFRM subsystem; AppArmor security module; Key management; Landlock security; Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel framework; ALSA framework; Digigram PCXHR ALSA driver; Wolfson Microelectronics audio codecs; USB sound devices; KVM subsystem
It was discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle canceled task work when processing certain wait operations, leading to the operation being performed in the wrong task context. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). ( CVE-2026-81010 )
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:
OpenRISC architecture;
PowerPC architecture;
Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers;
Auxiliary display drivers;
Ublk userspace block driver;
Character device driver;
CPU idle management framework;
Hardware crypto device drivers;
CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers;
ARM SCMI message protocol;
Hardware monitoring drivers;
Input Device core drivers;
On-Chip Interconnect management framework;
Multiple devices driver;
Amazon Nitro Secure Module driver;
MTD block device drivers;
Ethernet bonding driver;
Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver;
Texas Instruments network drivers;
MediaTek network drivers;
NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) drivers;
NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers;
Chrome hardware platform drivers;
x86 platform drivers;
Power supply drivers;
Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;
NVIDIA Tegra SoC drivers;
Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers;
Trusted Execution Environment drivers;
Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers;
USB Device Class drivers;
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;
USB Type-C support driver;
USB Type-C Port Controller Manager driver;
USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;
W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver;
Ceph distributed file system;
File systems infrastructure;
FUSE (File system in Userspace);
Network file system (NFS) server daemon;
OrangeFS file system;
SMB network file system;
Tracing infrastructure;
IP tunnels definitions;
User-space API (UAPI);
DMA mapping infrastructure;
Kernel futex primitives;
Scheduler infrastructure;
Signal handling mechanism;
6LoWPAN network protocol;
IEEE 802 network protocols;
B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;
HSR network protocol;
IEEE802154.4 network protocol;
Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP);
MultiProtocol Label Switching driver;
Network traffic control;
VMware vSockets driver;
AppArmor security module;
Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel framework;
Digigram PCXHR ALSA driver;
Wolfson Microelectronics audio codecs;
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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