In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/dma-buf: handle empty bo and UAF races There look to be some nasty races here when triggering the invalidate_mappings hook: 1) We do xe_bo_alloc() followed by the attach, before the actual full bo init step in xe_dma_buf_init_obj(). However the bo is visible on the attachments list after the attach. This is bad since exporter driver, say amdgpu, can at any time call back into our invalidate_mappings hook, with an empty/bogus bo, leading to potential bugs/crashes. 2) Similar to 1) but here we get a UAF, when the invalidate_mappings hook is triggered. For example, we get as far as xe_bo_init_locked() but this fails in some way. But here the bo will be freed on error, but we still have it attached from dma-buf pov, so if the invalidate_mappings is now triggered then the bo we access is gone and we trigger UAF and more bugs/crashes. To fix this, move the attach step until after we actually have a fully set up buffer object. Note that the bo is not published to userspace until later, so not sure what the comment "Don't publish the bo until we have a valid attachment", is referring to. We have at least two different customers reporting hitting a NULL ptr deref in evict_flags when importing something from amdgpu, followed by triggering the evict flow. Hit rate is also pretty low, which would hint at some kind of race, so something like 1) or 2) might explain this. v2: - Shuffle the order of the ops slightly (no functional change) - Improve the comment to better explain the ordering (Matt B) (cherry picked from commit af1f2ad0c59fe4e2f924c526f66e968289d77971)

The Rocky Linux 9.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1792762308 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpi3mr: Synchronous access b/w     reset and tm thread for reply queue When the task management thread processes reply queues while the reset     thread resets them, the task management thread accesses an invalid queue ID (0xFFFF), set by the reset     thread, which points to unallocated memory, causing a crash. Add flag 'io_admin_reset_sync' to synchronize     access between the reset, I/O, and admin threads. Before a reset, the reset handler sets this flag to     block I/O and admin processing threads. If any thread bypasses the initial check, the reset thread waits     up to 10 seconds for processing to finish. If the wait exceeds 10 seconds, the controller is marked as     unrecoverable. (CVE-2025-37861)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: cancel mesh send     timer when hdev removed mesh_send_done timer is not canceled when hdev is removed, which causes crash if     the timer triggers after hdev is gone. Cancel the timer when MGMT removes the hdev, like other MGMT     timers. Should fix the BUG: sporadically seen by BlueZ test bot (in Mesh - Send cancel - 1 test). Log:
    ------ BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in run_timer_softirq+0x76b/0x7d0 ... Freed by task 36:
    kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3a/0x60
    __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kfree+0x103/0x500 device_release+0x9a/0x210 kobject_put+0x100/0x1e0     vhci_release+0x18b/0x240 ------ (CVE-2025-40284)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: Intel: avs: Disable periods-     elapsed work when closing PCM avs_dai_fe_shutdown() handles the shutdown procedure for HOST HDAudio stream     while period-elapsed work services its IRQs. As the former frees the DAI's private context, these two     operations shall be synchronized to avoid slab-use-after-free or worse errors. (CVE-2025-40344)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: icmp: clear skb2->cb[] in     ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach() Sashiko AI-review observed: In ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach(), the skb is an     outer IPv4 ICMP error packet where its cb contains an IPv4 inet_skb_parm. When skb is cloned into skb2 and     passed to icmp6_send(), it uses IP6CB(skb2). IP6CB interprets the IPv4 inet_skb_parm as an inet6_skb_parm.
    The cipso offset in inet_skb_parm.opt directly overlaps with dsthao in inet6_skb_parm at offset 18. If an     attacker sends a forged ICMPv4 error with a CIPSO IP option, dsthao would be a non-zero offset. Inside     icmp6_send(), mip6_addr_swap() is called and uses ipv6_find_tlv(skb, opt->dsthao, IPV6_TLV_HAO). This     would scan the inner, attacker-controlled IPv6 packet starting at that offset, potentially returning a     fake TLV without checking if the remaining packet length can hold the full 18-byte struct     ipv6_destopt_hao. Could mip6_addr_swap() then perform a 16-byte swap that extends past the end of the     packet data into skb_shared_info? Should the cb array also be cleared in ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach() and     ip6ip6_err() to prevent this? This patch implements the first suggestion. I am not sure if ip6ip6_err()     needs to be changed. A separate patch would be better anyway. (CVE-2026-43038)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix double free in     rxe_srq_from_init In rxe_srq_from_init(), the queue pointer 'q' is assigned to 'srq->rq.queue' before     copying the SRQ number to user space. If copy_to_user() fails, the function calls rxe_queue_cleanup() to     free the queue, but leaves the now-invalid pointer in 'srq->rq.queue'. The caller of rxe_srq_from_init()     (rxe_create_srq) eventually calls rxe_srq_cleanup() upon receiving the error, which triggers a second     rxe_queue_cleanup() on the same memory, leading to a double free. The call trace looks like this:
    kmem_cache_free+0x.../0x... rxe_queue_cleanup+0x1a/0x30 [rdma_rxe] rxe_srq_cleanup+0x42/0x60 [rdma_rxe]     rxe_elem_release+0x31/0x70 [rdma_rxe] rxe_create_srq+0x12b/0x1a0 [rdma_rxe] ib_create_srq_user+0x9a/0x150     [ib_core] Fix this by moving 'srq->rq.queue = q' after copy_to_user. (CVE-2026-45852)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The AlmaLinux 9.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1792762308 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpi3mr: Synchronous access b/w     reset and tm thread for reply queue When the task management thread processes reply queues while the reset     thread resets them, the task management thread accesses an invalid queue ID (0xFFFF), set by the reset     thread, which points to unallocated memory, causing a crash. Add flag 'io_admin_reset_sync' to synchronize     access between the reset, I/O, and admin threads. Before a reset, the reset handler sets this flag to     block I/O and admin processing threads. If any thread bypasses the initial check, the reset thread waits     up to 10 seconds for processing to finish. If the wait exceeds 10 seconds, the controller is marked as     unrecoverable. (CVE-2025-37861)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: cancel mesh send     timer when hdev removed mesh_send_done timer is not canceled when hdev is removed, which causes crash if     the timer triggers after hdev is gone. Cancel the timer when MGMT removes the hdev, like other MGMT     timers. Should fix the BUG: sporadically seen by BlueZ test bot (in Mesh - Send cancel - 1 test). Log:
    ------ BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in run_timer_softirq+0x76b/0x7d0 ... Freed by task 36:
    kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3a/0x60
    __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kfree+0x103/0x500 device_release+0x9a/0x210 kobject_put+0x100/0x1e0     vhci_release+0x18b/0x240 ------ (CVE-2025-40284)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: Intel: avs: Disable periods-     elapsed work when closing PCM avs_dai_fe_shutdown() handles the shutdown procedure for HOST HDAudio stream     while period-elapsed work services its IRQs. As the former frees the DAI's private context, these two     operations shall be synchronized to avoid slab-use-after-free or worse errors. (CVE-2025-40344)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: icmp: clear skb2->cb[] in     ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach() Sashiko AI-review observed: In ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach(), the skb is an     outer IPv4 ICMP error packet where its cb contains an IPv4 inet_skb_parm. When skb is cloned into skb2 and     passed to icmp6_send(), it uses IP6CB(skb2). IP6CB interprets the IPv4 inet_skb_parm as an inet6_skb_parm.
    The cipso offset in inet_skb_parm.opt directly overlaps with dsthao in inet6_skb_parm at offset 18. If an     attacker sends a forged ICMPv4 error with a CIPSO IP option, dsthao would be a non-zero offset. Inside     icmp6_send(), mip6_addr_swap() is called and uses ipv6_find_tlv(skb, opt->dsthao, IPV6_TLV_HAO). This     would scan the inner, attacker-controlled IPv6 packet starting at that offset, potentially returning a     fake TLV without checking if the remaining packet length can hold the full 18-byte struct     ipv6_destopt_hao. Could mip6_addr_swap() then perform a 16-byte swap that extends past the end of the     packet data into skb_shared_info? Should the cb array also be cleared in ip6_err_gen_icmpv6_unreach() and     ip6ip6_err() to prevent this? This patch implements the first suggestion. I am not sure if ip6ip6_err()     needs to be changed. A separate patch would be better anyway. (CVE-2026-43038)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix double free in     rxe_srq_from_init In rxe_srq_from_init(), the queue pointer 'q' is assigned to 'srq->rq.queue' before     copying the SRQ number to user space. If copy_to_user() fails, the function calls rxe_queue_cleanup() to     free the queue, but leaves the now-invalid pointer in 'srq->rq.queue'. The caller of rxe_srq_from_init()     (rxe_create_srq) eventually calls rxe_srq_cleanup() upon receiving the error, which triggers a second     rxe_queue_cleanup() on the same memory, leading to a double free. The call trace looks like this:
    kmem_cache_free+0x.../0x... rxe_queue_cleanup+0x1a/0x30 [rdma_rxe] rxe_srq_cleanup+0x42/0x60 [rdma_rxe]     rxe_elem_release+0x31/0x70 [rdma_rxe] rxe_create_srq+0x12b/0x1a0 [rdma_rxe] ib_create_srq_user+0x9a/0x150     [ib_core] Fix this by moving 'srq->rq.queue = q' after copy_to_user. (CVE-2026-45852)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - drm/xe/dma-buf: handle empty bo and UAF races There look to be some nasty races here when triggering the     invalidate_mappings hook: 1) We do xe_bo_alloc() followed by the attach, before the actual full bo init     step in xe_dma_buf_init_obj(). However the bo is visible on the attachments list after the attach. This is     bad since exporter driver, say amdgpu, can at any time call back into our invalidate_mappings hook, with     an empty/bogus bo, leading to potential bugs/crashes. 2) Similar to 1) but here we get a UAF, when the     invalidate_mappings hook is triggered. For example, we get as far as xe_bo_init_locked() but this fails in     some way. But here the bo will be freed on error, but we still have it attached from dma-buf pov, so if     the invalidate_mappings is now triggered then the bo we access is gone and we trigger UAF and more     bugs/crashes. To fix this, move the attach step until after we actually have a fully set up buffer object.
    Note that the bo is not published to userspace until later, so not sure what the comment Don't publish     the bo until we have a valid attachment, is referring to. We have at least two different customers     reporting hitting a NULL ptr deref in evict_flags when importing something from amdgpu, followed by     triggering the evict flow. Hit rate is also pretty low, which would hint at some kind of race, so     something like 1) or 2) might explain this. v2: - Shuffle the order of the ops slightly (no functional     change) - Improve the comment to better explain the ordering (Matt B) (cherry picked from commit     af1f2ad0c59fe4e2f924c526f66e968289d77971) (CVE-2026-52951)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
371428	Rocky Linux 9.6 [TuxCare] Security Update: kernel / kernel-64k / kernel-64k-core / kernel-64k-debug / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1792762308)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
371426	AlmaLinux 9.6 [TuxCare] Security Update: kernel / kernel-64k / kernel-64k-core / kernel-64k-debug / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1792762308)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
343532	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-8728-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
340681	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities (USN-8663-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
340680	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities (USN-8665-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
340045	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS : Linux kernel (NVIDIA BaseOS) vulnerabilities (USN-8664-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
335080	openSUSE 16: cluster-md-kmp-64kb / cluster-md-kmp-azure / cluster-md-kmp-default / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21555-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
329149	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 : Security update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:3166-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
323304	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-52951	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high

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