Ubuntu Security Advisories

USN-8349-1 fixed vulnerabilities in rsync. The update introduced multiple regressions in rsync functionality. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Calum Hutton discovered that rsync contained a heap-based out-of-bounds read when handling file transfers. A remote attacker with read access to an rsync server could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-10158) Batuhan Sancak, Damien Neil, and Michael Stapelberg discovered that rsync daemons configured without chroot protection were exposed to a race condition on parent path components. A local attacker with write access to a module could possibly use this issue to overwrite files, obtain sensitive information, or escalate privileges. (CVE-2026-29518) It was discovered that rsync did not properly validate a length value while sorting extended attributes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-41035) It was discovered that rsync performed reverse-DNS lookups after chrooting in some daemon configurations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass hostname-based access controls and access network services. (CVE-2026-43617) Omar Elsayed discovered that rsync did not properly check for integer overflows while decoding compressed tokens. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-43618) Andrew Tridgell discovered that rsync did not fully fix a symlink race condition in path-based system calls for daemons configured without chroot protection. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite files, obtain sensitive information, or escalate privileges. (CVE-2026-43619) Pratham Gupta discovered that rsync did not properly validate an index while processing file lists. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause rsync to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-43620) Michal Ruprich discovered that rsync contained an off-by-one error while handling HTTP proxy responses. An attacker able to intercept network communications or a malicious proxy server could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-45232)

Dave Rolsky discovered that Net::CIDR::Lite did not properly handle extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address string. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass access controls that are based on IP addresses. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-47154) It was discovered that Net::CIDR::Lite did not properly validate the IPv6 group count when handling uncompressed IPv6 addresses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass access controls. (CVE-2026-40198) It was discovered that Net::CIDR::Lite mishandled IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass access controls that are based on IP addresses. (CVE-2026-40199)

Ariel Silver discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled username comparisons during authorization checks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain unauthorized access to restricted operations. (CVE-2026-27447) Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled notify-recipient-uri values in the RSS notifier. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite lp-writable files and cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-34978) Jacob Newman discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled filter option strings when processing job attributes. An attacker could use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-34979) Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled page-border values in shared PostScript queues. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-34980) Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled localhost authentication to attacker-controlled IPP services. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-34990) Tomer Fichman discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled negative job-password-supported values. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-39314) Tomer Fichman discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled temporary printer deletion. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-39316) Tomer Fichman discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain malformed SNMP responses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-41079)

It was discovered that Transmission had a clickjacking weakness in the browser-facing WebUI and RPC response paths. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trick users into performing unintended actions.

Ali Norouzi discovered that Kea DHCP did not properly handle maliciously crafted messages over configured API sockets and HA listeners. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Kea DHCP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

It was discovered that Netty's HTTP proxy handler did not properly validate headers when constructing CONNECT requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into CONNECT requests. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42578) It was discovered that Netty's DNS codec did not properly enforce domain name constraints. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass domain name validation, or cause Netty to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42579) It was discovered that Netty did not correctly handle HTTP/1.0 requests containing both a Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length header. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2026-42581) Violeta Georgieva discovered that Netty incorrectly paired responses with requests when handling informational HTTP responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2026-42584) Violeta Georgieva discovered that Netty incorrectly parsed malformed Transfer-Encoding headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2026-42585) It was discovered that Netty's Redis encoder did not validate CRLF characters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary Redis commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42586)

It was discovered that systemd-nspawn incorrectly handled certain optional configuration files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escape to the host system and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-40226) It was discovered that systemd-resolved incorrectly validated DNSSEC records for signed domains. An attacker could possibly use this issue to manipulate DNS records. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-7008)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF tiling patterns in the Splash backend. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service.

It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled large glyph advance values in fonts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42308) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled nested coordinate lists in certain APIs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42309) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42310) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed PSD files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42311)

It was discovered that nginx incorrectly handled certain cookie headers in the HTTP/2 implementation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause nginx to consume excessive resources, resulting in a denial of service.

It was discovered that libjxl did not properly handle certain crafted PBM images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libjxl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.

It was discovered that YARD incorrectly sanitized paths in its built-in documentation server. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files from the server host.

It was discovered that the Inetutils telnet daemon incorrectly handled the CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY environment variable. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2026-28372) It was discovered that the Inetutils telnet daemon did not properly validate buffer bounds when processing LINEMODE SLC suboptions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-32746) It was discovered that the Inetutils telnet client incorrectly handled the NEW_ENVIRON SEND USERVAR option. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary environment variables. (CVE-2026-32772)

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) It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500, CVE-2026-45998, CVE-2026-46000) It was discovered that a logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel when handling socket buffer fragments. This flaw is known as Fragnesia. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-43503, CVE-2026-46300) Qualys discovered that a race condition existed in the ptrace subsystem of the Linux kernel when privileged processes are exiting. An unprivileged local attacker could use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2026-46333) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contain a memory leak when handling AppArmor notifications. A local attacker could use this to cause resource exhaustion. (CVE-2026-47326) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contain a NULL pointer dereference when handling AppArmor notifications. A local attacker could use this to cause a kernel oops. (CVE-2026-47327) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contained an invalid free when handling AppArmor notifications. A local attacker could use this to corrupt kernel memory. (CVE-2026-47328) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contained insufficient validation of AppArmor notification responses. A local attacker could use this to allow crafted responses to be processed. (CVE-2026-47329) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 used an uninitialized variable when handling AppArmor notifications. A local attacker could use this to cause incorrect caching of data. (CVE-2026-47330) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8 contained a use- after-free (UAF) bug. A local attacker could use this to cause memory corruption and, theoretically, arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2026-47331) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contained an out-of-bounds (OOB) read when handling AppArmor notifications. A local attacker could use this to cause information disclosure of kernel memory. (CVE-2026-47332) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contained a out-of-bounds (OOB) read when handling AppArmor notifications. A local attacker could use this to cause kernel memory corruption and, theoretically, influence processing of AppArmor policies. (CVE-2026-47333) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contained incorrect holding of locks when handling AppArmor notifications. A local attacker could use this to cause a kernel panic or deadlock. (CVE-2026-47334) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8 contained a NULL pointer dereference when handling AppArmor notifications. A local attacker could use this to cause a kernel panic. (CVE-2026-47335) Tristan Madani discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8 used an uninitialized variable when handling AppArmor AF_INET/AF_INET6 socket mediation. A local attacker could use this to influence processing of fine- grained network socket mediation. (CVE-2026-47336) Tristan Madani and Trevor Lawrence have each independently discovered that Ubuntu Linux kernel 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contained a NULL pointer dereference when handling AppArmor network socket mediation. A local attacker could use this to cause a kernel oops. (CVE-2026-47337) 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; - x86 architecture; - Cryptographic API; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - Drivers core; - Null block device driver; - Ublk userspace block driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Counter interface drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - DPLL subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers; - IIO ADC drivers; - IIO subsystem; - On-Chip Interconnect management framework; - IRQ chip drivers; - Modular ISDN driver; - LED subsystem; - Multiple devices driver; - UACCE accelerator framework; - MMC subsystem; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - NVME drivers; - PHY drivers; - x86 platform drivers; - i.MX PM domains; - SCSI subsystem; - SLIMbus drivers; - SPI subsystem; - TCM subsystem; - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - BTRFS file system; - EFI Variable file system; - exFAT file system; - Ext4 file system; - HFS+ file system; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NTFS3 file system; - SMB network file system; - Scheduler infrastructure; - Netfilter; - NFC subsystem; - Tracing infrastructure; - io_uring subsystem; - BPF subsystem; - Perf events; - Floating proportions library; - Memory management; - Bluetooth subsystem; - CAN network layer; - Ceph Core library; - Networking core; - IPv4 networking; - IPv6 networking; - L2TP protocol; - MAC80211 subsystem; - NET/ROM layer; - Packet sockets; - RDS protocol; - RxRPC session sockets; - Network traffic control; - SCTP protocol; - TLS protocol; - Unix domain sockets; - VMware vSockets driver; - Wireless networking; - ALSA AC97 driver; - Generic PCM loopback sound driver; - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver; - AMD SoC Alsa drivers; - Texas InstrumentS Audio (ASoC/HDA) drivers; - USB sound devices; - KVM subsystem; (CVE-2024-50004, CVE-2024-58096, CVE-2024-58097, CVE-2025-37926, CVE-2025-38201, CVE-2025-38591, CVE-2025-40039, CVE-2025-40082, CVE-2025-40149, CVE-2025-68351, CVE-2025-68358, CVE-2025-68365, CVE-2025-68725, CVE-2025-68749, CVE-2025-68803, CVE-2025-68823, CVE-2025-71160, CVE-2025-71162, CVE-2025-71163, CVE-2025-71180, CVE-2025-71182, CVE-2025-71183, CVE-2025-71184, CVE-2025-71185, CVE-2025-71186, CVE-2025-71188, CVE-2025-71189, CVE-2025-71190, CVE-2025-71191, CVE-2025-71192, CVE-2025-71193, CVE-2025-71194, CVE-2025-71195, CVE-2025-71196, CVE-2025-71197, CVE-2025-71198, CVE-2025-71199, CVE-2025-71200, CVE-2025-71220, CVE-2025-71222, CVE-2025-71224, CVE-2025-71225, CVE-2025-71268, CVE-2026-22976, CVE-2026-22977, CVE-2026-22978, CVE-2026-22979, CVE-2026-22980, CVE-2026-22982, CVE-2026-22984, CVE-2026-22990, CVE-2026-22991, CVE-2026-22992, CVE-2026-22994, CVE-2026-22996, CVE-2026-22997, CVE-2026-22998, CVE-2026-22999, CVE-2026-23000, CVE-2026-23001, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23005, CVE-2026-23006, CVE-2026-23010, CVE-2026-23011, CVE-2026-23019, CVE-2026-23020, CVE-2026-23021, CVE-2026-23025, CVE-2026-23026, CVE-2026-23030, CVE-2026-23031, CVE-2026-23032, CVE-2026-23033, CVE-2026-23035, CVE-2026-23037, CVE-2026-23038, CVE-2026-23047, CVE-2026-23049, CVE-2026-23050, CVE-2026-23053, CVE-2026-23054, CVE-2026-23056, CVE-2026-23057, CVE-2026-23058, CVE-2026-23059, CVE-2026-23061, CVE-2026-23062, CVE-2026-23063, CVE-2026-23064, CVE-2026-23065, CVE-2026-23068, CVE-2026-23069, CVE-2026-23071, CVE-2026-23073, CVE-2026-23075, CVE-2026-23076, CVE-2026-23078, CVE-2026-23080, CVE-2026-23083, CVE-2026-23084, CVE-2026-23085, CVE-2026-23086, CVE-2026-23087, CVE-2026-23088, CVE-2026-23089, CVE-2026-23090, CVE-2026-23091, CVE-2026-23093, CVE-2026-23094, CVE-2026-23095, CVE-2026-23096, CVE-2026-23097, CVE-2026-23098, CVE-2026-23099, CVE-2026-23101, CVE-2026-23102, CVE-2026-23103, CVE-2026-23105, CVE-2026-23107, CVE-2026-23108, CVE-2026-23110, CVE-2026-23113, CVE-2026-23116, CVE-2026-23119, CVE-2026-23120, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2026-23123, CVE-2026-23124, CVE-2026-23125, CVE-2026-23126, CVE-2026-23128, CVE-2026-23129, CVE-2026-23131, CVE-2026-23133, CVE-2026-23135, CVE-2026-23136, CVE-2026-23139, CVE-2026-23140, CVE-2026-23141, CVE-2026-23142, CVE-2026-23144, CVE-2026-23145, CVE-2026-23146, CVE-2026-23148, CVE-2026-23150, CVE-2026-23151, CVE-2026-23156, CVE-2026-23159, CVE-2026-23160, CVE-2026-23163, CVE-2026-23164, CVE-2026-23166, CVE-2026-23167, CVE-2026-23168, CVE-2026-23170, CVE-2026-23172, CVE-2026-23173, CVE-2026-23176, CVE-2026-23178, CVE-2026-23179, CVE-2026-23180, CVE-2026-23182, CVE-2026-23187, CVE-2026-23190, CVE-2026-23191, CVE-2026-23193, CVE-2026-23198, CVE-2026-23200, CVE-2026-23202, CVE-2026-23204, CVE-2026-23205, CVE-2026-23206, CVE-2026-23212, CVE-2026-23213, CVE-2026-23214, CVE-2026-23215, CVE-2026-23216, CVE-2026-23254, CVE-2026-23256, CVE-2026-23257, CVE-2026-23258, CVE-2026-23260, CVE-2026-23261, CVE-2026-23262, CVE-2026-23264, CVE-2026-23274, CVE-2026-23351, CVE-2026-23394, CVE-2026-31419, CVE-2026-31504, CVE-2026-31533, CVE-2026-31676, CVE-2026-43033, CVE-2026-43077, CVE-2026-43078, CVE-2026-43494, CVE-2026-46028)

A security issue was discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use this to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystem: - Packet sockets; (CVE-2026-31504)

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) It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) 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: - Cryptographic API; - Packet sockets; - RDS protocol; - TLS protocol; (CVE-2026-31504, CVE-2026-31533, CVE-2026-43033, CVE-2026-43077, CVE-2026-43078, CVE-2026-43494, CVE-2026-46028)

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) It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) 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: - Cryptographic API; - Network drivers; - NVME drivers; - IPv4 networking; - Packet sockets; - RDS protocol; - TLS protocol; (CVE-2024-50304, CVE-2026-23112, CVE-2026-23209, CVE-2026-31504, CVE-2026-31533, CVE-2026-43033, CVE-2026-43077, CVE-2026-43078, CVE-2026-43494, CVE-2026-46028)

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container.

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) 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: - RDS protocol; (CVE-2026-43494)

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) It was discovered that a logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel when handling socket buffer fragments. This flaw is known as Fragnesia. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape a container. (CVE-2026-43503, CVE-2026-46300) Qualys discovered that a race condition existed in the ptrace subsystem of the Linux kernel when privileged processes are exiting. An unprivileged local attacker could use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2026-46333) 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: - RDS protocol; (CVE-2026-43494)