CVE-2026-45861
It was discovered that some AMD processors did not properly clear data in the floating point divider unit during speculative execution. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2025-54505) 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) It was discovered that some AMD Zen 5 processors supporting RDSEED instruction did not properly handle entropy, potentially resulting in the consumption of insufficiently random values. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to influence the values returned by the RDSEED instruction causing loss of confidentiality and integrity. (CVE-2025-62626) 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: - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - ACPI drivers; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - ATM drivers; - Drivers core; - Power management core; - DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; - Rados block device (RBD) driver; - RNBD block device driver; - Ublk userspace block driver; - Compressed RAM block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Bus devices; - Character device driver; - TPM device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Clocksource drivers; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - Counter interface drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - CPU idle management framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - EDAC drivers; - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - Greybus drivers; - HID subsy
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A use-after-free vulnerability in the GFS2 filesystem's qd_put function causes slab memory corruption.
- Who is affected
- Linux systems using the GFS2 clustered filesystem.
- Urgency
- High; CVSS 7.1 indicates kernel memory corruption with potential for privilege escalation or denial-of-service.
- Action
- Update to a patched Linux kernel version with proper reference counting in GFS2's qd_put function.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.16% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 6% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (7)
- highCVE-2026-45861: gfs2: Fix slab-use-after-free in qd_putmsrc · 2026-08-06
- highUSN-8619-1: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilitiesubuntu · 2026-07-28
- highUSN-8609-1: Linux kernel (Azure CVM) vulnerabilitiesubuntu · 2026-07-24
- highUSN-8607-1: Linux kernel (Azure CVM) vulnerabilitiesubuntu · 2026-07-24
- highUSN-8606-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilitiesubuntu · 2026-07-24
- unknownUSN-8492-5: Linux kernel (FIPS) vulnerabilitiesubuntu · 2026-07-10
- unknownUSN-8492-4: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilitiesubuntu · 2026-07-09
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