USN-8277-1

It was discovered that the Linux kernel algif_aead module did not properly handle in-place cryptographic operations. This flaw is known as Copy Fail. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-31431)

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:

• S390 architecture;
• Cryptographic API;
• GPU drivers;
• Ethernet bonding driver;
• Network file system (NFS) server daemon;
• Distributed Switch Architecture;
• Netfilter;
• Control group (cgroup);
• Kernel kexec() syscall;
• Memory management;
• MAC80211 subsystem;
• Multipath TCP;
• Packet sockets;
• TLS protocol;
• Unix domain sockets; (CVE-2025-71088, CVE-2025-71090, CVE-2025-71127, CVE-2025-71134, CVE-2025-71139, CVE-2025-71141, CVE-2025-71142, CVE-2025-71144, CVE-2025-71152, CVE-2025-71155, CVE-2026-23274, CVE-2026-23351, CVE-2026-23394, CVE-2026-31419, CVE-2026-31504, CVE-2026-31533, CVE-2026-43033, CVE-2026-43077, CVE-2026-43078)