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USN-8714-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu issues USN-8714-3 updating the generic Linux kernel to fix five CVEs affecting the OCFS2 file system and SCTP protocol.

Ubuntu released USN-8714-3, a security update for the generic Linux kernel. The update fixes five CVEs: CVE-2026-53043, CVE-2026-53224, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53246, and CVE-2026-53309, all affecting the OCFS2 file system and SCTP protocol subsystems. An attacker could potentially use these issues to compromise the system.

  • USN-8714-3 updates Ubuntu's generic Linux kernel.
  • Fixes five CVEs: CVE-2026-53043, CVE-2026-53224, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53246, CVE-2026-53309.
  • Affected subsystems are the OCFS2 file system and SCTP protocol.

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSFlagsAffectedExposurePublished
CVE-2026-53043
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2/dlm: validate qr_numregions in dlm_match_regions() Patch series "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()". In dlm_match_regions(), the qr_numregions field from a DLM_QUERY_REGION network message is used to drive loops over the qr_regions buffer without sufficient validation. This series fixes two issues: - Patch 1 adds a bounds check to reject messages where qr_numregions exceeds O2NM_MAX_REGIONS. The o2net layer only validates message byte length; it does not constrain field values, so a crafted message can set qr_numregions up to 255 and trigger out-of-bounds reads past the 1024-byte qr_regions buffer. - Patch 2 fixes an off-by-one in the local-vs-remote comparison loop, which uses ' 32 causes out-of-bounds reads past the qr_regions buffer. Add a bounds check for qr_numregions before entering the loops.

NVD description · AI analysis pending
9.1<1%
  • linux linux kernel
CVE-2026-53246
+2 in the same advisory: …53224 …53225
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: validate cached peer INIT chunk length in COOKIE_ECHO processing When a listening SCTP server processes a COOKIE_ECHO chunk, the cached peer INIT chunk embedded after the cookie is parsed and its parameters are later walked by sctp_process_init() using sctp_walk_params(). However, the chunk header length of this cached INIT chunk was not validated against the remaining buffer in the COOKIE_ECHO payload. If the length field is inflated, the parameter walk can run beyond the actual received data, leading to out-of-bounds reads and potential memory corruption during later parameter handling (e.g. STATE_COOKIE processing and kmemdup() copies). Add a bounds check in sctp_unpack_cookie() to ensure the cached INIT chunk length does not exceed the available data in the COOKIE_ECHO buffer before it is used.

NVD description · AI analysis pending
9.8
group max
<1%
  • linux linux kernel
CVE-2026-53309
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2/dlm: fix off-by-one in dlm_match_regions() region comparison The local-vs-remote region comparison loop uses '<=' instead of '<', causing it to read one entry past the valid range of qr_regions. The other loops in the same function correctly use '<'. Fix the loop condition to use '<' for consistency and correctness.

NVD description · AI analysis pending
9.8<1%
  • linux linux kernel
Full article

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: - OCFS2 file system; - SCTP protocol; (CVE-2026-53043, CVE-2026-53224, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53246, CVE-2026-53309)

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