Nine null-deref, out-of-bounds, and unvalidated-geometry flaws in dirty-log replay turn a crafted volume into a kernel crash at mount time.
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The KDE file manager can again show a folder path as a row of columns, with shipping in the next release hanging on early user feedback.
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A community proposal seeks 22.04.6 and 24.04.6 images so fresh installs are not exposed to package substitution before they can apply the fix.
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CVE-2026-89788 scored 9.8 and reached later longterm kernels, but 5.15 still lacks the September 2026 tree-connection fix.
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CVE-2026-31705, a CVSS 9.8 out-of-bounds write in SMB extended-attribute handling, was backported to six later stables but omitted from still-maintained 5.15.
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Inada Naoki proposes joining print arguments before writing, mainly to stop multithreaded output from interleaving.
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A longtime maintainer alleges a breakaway faction seized NVIDIA talks and infra; others say he was removed, not that the team ended.
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Phillip Lougher’s 18-patch series hardens on-disk parsing against OOB access, hangs, privilege tricks, and multi-megabyte mount-time allocations.
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Google engineer Ackerley Tng’s 88-patch RFC sketches how confidential guests could back private memory with tmpfs, custom providers, and device BARs.
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Temporary pointers from ringbuf drain and array map iteration could outlive their helpers, enabling arbitrary kernel read/write and stack leaks.
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Anton Protopopov’s v1 set uses a clang plugin and BTF tags so modify-return programs can attach far beyond hand-picked hooks, with verifier-enforced return values.
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Nadim Kobeissi’s preprint says soundness gaps and solver bugs mean tool output is analysis, not proof, yet papers and audits still treat a clean run as settled security.
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A WordPress management plugin on roughly 200,000 installs can be forced onto a weak permanent authentication path that an offline brute-force recovers in minutes, enabling indefinite command forgery.
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Unvalidated outer headers from a guest or tap writer could drive GSO past the start of the skb and crash the host.
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Native float32 and float64 GPU paths land for multi-dimensional binning, with shared input checks and a CPU edge-case fix.
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The Go team will ship minor updates fixing a dozen private CVEs in the standard library and toolchain.
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