USN-7514-1: Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities

USN-7514-1: Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Publication date: 16 May 2025
Releases:24.04 LTS , 22.04 LTS

Overview

• Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Packages

• linux-nvidia - Linux kernel for NVIDIA systems
• linux-nvidia-6.8 - Linux kernel for NVIDIA systems
• linux-nvidia-lowlatency - Linux low latency kernel for NVIDIA systems

Details
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:

• RISC-V architecture;
• x86 architecture;
• Block layer subsystem;
• Compute Acceleration Framework;
• ACPI drivers;
• Drivers core;
• Ublk userspace block driver;
• Virtio block driver;
• DMA engine subsystem;
• GPU drivers;
• Microsoft Hyper-V drivers;
• Hardware monitoring drivers;
• IIO ADC drivers;
• IIO subsystem;
• InfiniBand drivers;
• Multiple devices driver;
• Media drivers;
• Microchip PCI driver;
• Network drivers;
• Mellanox network drivers;
• STMicroelectronics network drivers;
• PCI subsystem;
• Pin controllers subsystem;
• x86 platform drivers;
• Power supply drivers;
• SCSI subsystem;
• USB Gadget drivers;
• TDX Guest driver;
• AFS file system;
• BTRFS file system;
• Ceph distributed file system;
• EROFS file system;
• File systems infrastructure;
• Network file systems library;
• NILFS2 file system;
• Overlay file system;
• SMB network file system;
• VLANs driver;
• Memory management;
• LAPB network protocol;
• io_uring subsystem;
• BPF subsystem;
• Control group (cgroup);
• Tracing infrastructure;
• Workqueue subsystem;
• Bluetooth subsystem;
• Networking core;
• IPv4 networking;
• IPv6 networking;
• MAC80211 subsystem;
• Multipath TCP;
• Netfilter;
• NET/ROM layer;
• Packet sockets;
• RDS protocol;
• Network traffic control;
• SCTP protocol;
• SMC sockets;
• Wireless networking;
• SELinux security module;
• ALSA framework;
• SOF drivers

Update instructions

• After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

24.04 noble

• linux-image-6.8.0-1028-nvidia – 6.8.0-1028.31
• linux-image-6.8.0-1028-nvidia-64k – 6.8.0-1028.31
• linux-image-6.8.0-1028-nvidia-lowlatency – 6.8.0-1028.31.1
• linux-image-6.8.0-1028-nvidia-lowlatency-64k – 6.8.0-1028.31.1
• linux-image-nvidia – 6.8.0-1028.31
• linux-image-nvidia-64k – 6.8.0-1028.31
• linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency – 6.8.0-1028.31.1
• linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-64k – 6.8.0-1028.31.1

22.04 jammy

• linux-image-6.8.0-1028-nvidia – 6.8.0-1028.31~22.04.1
• linux-image-6.8.0-1028-nvidia-64k – 6.8.0-1028.31~22.04.1
• linux-image-nvidia-6.8 – 6.8.0-1028.31~22.04.1
• linux-image-nvidia-64k-6.8 – 6.8.0-1028.31~22.04.1
• linux-image-nvidia-64k-hwe-22.04 – 6.8.0-1028.31~22.04.1
• linux-image-nvidia-hwe-22.04 – 6.8.0-1028.31~22.04.1