Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Summary

Stonejiajia, Shir Tamari and Sagi Tzadik discovered that the OverlayFS implementation in the Ubuntu Linux kernel did not properly perform permission checks in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-2640) Shir Tamari and Sagi Tzadik discovered that the OverlayFS implementation in the Ubuntu Linux kernel did not properly perform permission checks in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-32629) 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; - Block layer subsystem; - Drivers core; - Bluetooth drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers; - IIO ADC drivers; - IRQ chip drivers; - Modular ISDN driver; - LED subsystem; - UACCE accelerator framework; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - Ethernet team driver; - NVME drivers; - PHY drivers; - SLIMbus drivers; - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - BTRFS file system; - Ext4 file system; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NTFS3 file system; - SMB network file system; - NFC subsystem; - BPF subsys Affected Ubuntu releases: 20.04. CVEs: CVE-2023-2640, CVE-2025-71194, CVE-2026-23078, CVE-2026-23003, CVE-2026-23096, CVE-2026-23085, CVE-2026-23121, CVE-2025-68365….