Affected: AlmaLinux:10: kernel, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k-core, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k-debug, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k-debug-core, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k-debug-devel, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k-debug-modules, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k-debug-modules-core, AlmaLinux:10: kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra and 65 more

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: xen: Xen hypercall page unsafe against speculative attacks (Xen Security Advisory 466) (CVE-2024-53241) * kernel: exfat: fix out-of-bounds access of directory entries (CVE-2024-53147) * kernel: zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show() (CVE-2024-53222) * kernel: nfsd: release svc_expkey/svc_export with rcu_work (CVE-2024-53216) * kernel: acpi: nfit: vmalloc-out-of-bounds Read in acpi_nfit_ctl (CVE-2024-56662) * kernel: bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpf_prog/attachment RCU flavors (CVE-2024-56675) * kernel: crypto: pcrypt - Call crypto layer directly when padata_do_parallel() return -EBUSY (CVE-2024-56690) * kernel: igb: Fix potential invalid memory access in igb_init_module() (CVE-2024-52332) * kernel: af_packet: fix vlan_get_protocol_dgram() vs MSG_PEEK (CVE-2024-57901) * kernel: af_packet: fix vlan_get_tci() vs MSG_PEEK (CVE-2024-57902) * kernel: io_uring/sqpoll: zero sqd->thread on tctx errors (CVE-2025-21633) * kernel: ipvlan: Fix use-after-free in ipvlan_get_iflink(). (CVE-2025-21652) * kernel: sched: sch_cake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts (CVE-2025-21647) * kernel: io_uring/eventfd: ensure io_eventfd_signal() defers another RCU period (CVE-2025-21655) * kernel: netfs: Fix the (non-)cancellation of copy when cache is temporarily disabled (CVE-2024-57941) * kernel: netfs: Fix ceph copy to cache…

Affected: Alpaquita:25: linux-lts, Alpaquita:stream: linux-lts

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

idpf: convert workqueues to unbound

When a workqueue is created with `WQ_UNBOUND`, its work items are served by special worker-pools, whose host workers are not bound to any specific CPU. In the default configuration (i.e. when `queue_delayed_work` and friends do not specify which CPU to run the work item on), `WQ_UNBOUND` allows the work item to be executed on any CPU in the same node of the CPU it was enqueued on. While this solution potentially sacrifices locality, it avoids contention with other processes that might dominate the CPU time of the processor the work item was scheduled on.

This is not just a theoretical problem: in a particular scenario misconfigured process was hogging most of the time from CPU0, leaving less than 0.5% of its CPU time to the kworker. The IDPF workqueues that were using the kworker on CPU0 suffered large completion delays as a result, causing performance degradation, timeouts and eventual system crash.

* I have also run a manual test to gauge the performance improvement. The test consists of an antagonist process (`./stress --cpu 2`) consuming as much of CPU 0 as possible. This process is run under `taskset 01` to bind it to CPU0, and its priority is changed with `chrt -pQ 9900 10000 ${pid}` and `renice -n -20 ${pid}` after start.

Then, the IDPF driver is forced to prefer CPU0 by editing all calls to `queue_delayed_work`, `mod_delayed_work`, etc... to use…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

idpf: convert workqueues to unbound

When a workqueue is created with `WQ_UNBOUND`, its work items are served by special worker-pools, whose host workers are not bound to any specific CPU. In the default configuration (i.e. when `queue_delayed_work` and friends do not specify which CPU to run the work item on), `WQ_UNBOUND` allows the work item to be executed on any CPU in the same node of the CPU it was enqueued on. While this solution potentially sacrifices locality, it avoids contention with other processes that might dominate the CPU time of the processor the work item was scheduled on.

This is not just a theoretical problem: in a particular scenario misconfigured process was hogging most of the time from CPU0, leaving less than 0.5% of its CPU time to the kworker. The IDPF workqueues that were using the kworker on CPU0 suffered large completion delays as a result, causing performance degradation, timeouts and eventual system crash.

* I have also run a manual test to gauge the performance improvement. The test consists of an antagonist process (`./stress --cpu 2`) consuming as much of CPU 0 as possible. This process is run under `taskset 01` to bind it to CPU0, and its priority is changed with `chrt -pQ 9900 10000 ${pid}` and `renice -n -20 ${pid}` after start.

Then, the IDPF driver is forced to prefer CPU0 by editing all calls to `queue_delayed_work`, `mod_delayed_work`, etc... to use…

microcode_ctl: From CVEorg collector kernel: information leak via transient execution vulnerability in some AMD processors kernel: transient execution vulnerability in some AMD processors kernel: drm/xe/tracing: Fix a potential TP_printk UAF kernel: igb: Fix potential invalid memory access in igb_init_module() kernel: exfat: fix out-of-bounds access of directory entries kernel: nfsd: release svc_expkey/svc_export with rcu_work kernel: zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show() kernel: xen: Xen hypercall page unsafe against speculative attacks (Xen Security Advisory 466) kernel: NFS: Fix potential buffer overflowin nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client() kernel: acpi: nfit: vmalloc-out-of-bounds Read in acpi_nfit_ctl kernel: bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpf_prog/attachment RCU flavors kernel: crypto: pcrypt - Call crypto layer directly when padata_do_parallel() return -EBUSY kernel: af_packet: fix vlan_get_protocol_dgram() vs MSG_PEEK kernel: af_packet: fix vlan_get_tci() vs MSG_PEEK kernel: netfs: Fix the (non-)cancellation of copy when cache is temporarily disabled kernel: netfs: Fix ceph copy to cache on write-begin kernel: memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process kernel: usb: xhci: Fix NULL pointer dereference on certain command aborts kernel: xfrm: state: fix out-of-bounds read during lookup kernel: i3c: dw: Fix use-after-free in dw_i3c_master driver due to race condition kernel: HID: core: Fix assumption that Resolution Multipliers must be in Logical Collections kernel: Bluet…

Security update for the Linux Kernel

Affected: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-hwe-edge, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.0, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.3, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure-5.3, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure-edge, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.3, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gke-4.15, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gke-5.4 and 110 more

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: idpf: convert workqueues to unbound When a workqueue is created with `WQ_UNBOUND`, its work items are served by special worker-pools, whose host workers are not bound to any specific CPU. In the default configuration (i.e. when `queue_delayed_work` and friends do not specify which CPU to run the work item on), `WQ_UNBOUND` allows the work item to be executed on any CPU in the same node of the CPU it was enqueued on. While this solution potentially sacrifices locality, it avoids contention with other processes that might dominate the CPU time of the processor the work item was scheduled on. This is not just a theoretical problem: in a particular scenario misconfigured process was hogging most of the time from CPU0, leaving less than 0.5% of its CPU time to the kworker. The IDPF workqueues that were using the kworker on CPU0 suffered large completion delays as a result, causing performance degradation, timeouts and eventual system crash. * I have also run a manual test to gauge the performance improvement. The test consists of an antagonist process (`./stress --cpu 2`) consuming as much of CPU 0 as possible. This process is run under `taskset 01` to bind it to CPU0, and its priority is changed with `chrt -pQ 9900 10000 ${pid}` and `renice -n -20 ${pid}` after start. Then, the IDPF driver is forced to prefer CPU0 by editing all calls to `queue_delayed_work`, `mod_delayed_work`, etc... to use CPU 0…

Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen im Linux Kernel ausnutzen, um nicht spezifizierte Auswirkungen zu erzeugen oder einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu verursachen.