Qualys discovered that several vulnerabilities existed in the AppArmor Linux kernel Security Module (LSM). An unprivileged local attacker could use these issues to load, replace, and remove arbitrary AppArmor profiles causing denial of service, exposure of sensitive information (kernel memory), local privilege escalation, or possibly escape a container. (LP: #2143853, CVE-2026-23268, CVE-2026-23269) 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: - Nios II architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - Sun Sparc architecture; - User-Mode Linux (UML); - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - ACPI drivers; - ATM drivers; - Drivers core; - Network block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Bus devices; - Character device driver; - Hardware random number generator core; - TPM device driver; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - Counter interface drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - DMA engine subsystem; - Intel Stratix 10 firmware drivers; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - CoreSight HW tracing drivers; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Input Device (Miscellaneous) drivers; - Input Device (Tablet) drivers; - ISDN/mISDN subsystem; - Macintosh device dri Affected Ubuntu releases: 22.04. CVEs: CVE-2025-38129, CVE-2025-40081, CVE-2025-40253, CVE-2025-40001, CVE-2025-68285, CVE-2025-40205, CVE-2025-68336, CVE-2025-40060….
Affected versions
Ubuntu 22.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
Recommended fix / mitigation
Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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