Update07/24/2025

USN-7651-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Desktop
Canonical

Update from:
patrick-devicebase (expert)

USN-7651-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Publication date: 22 July 2025
Overview: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Packages

linux-aws-6.8 - Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems
linux-gke - Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems
linux-gkeop - Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems
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
linux-oracle - Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems
linux-oracle-6.8 - Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud 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:

PowerPC architecture;

S390 architecture;
Block layer subsystem;
Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers;
Drivers core;
Network block device driver;
Character device driver;
TPM device driver;
Clock framework and drivers;
FireWire subsystem;
GPU drivers;
HID subsystem;
I3C subsystem;
InfiniBand drivers;
IOMMU subsystem;
Media drivers;
NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver;
Fastrpc Driver;
Network drivers;
Operating Performance Points (OPP) driver;
PCI subsystem;
x86 platform drivers;
PPS (Pulse Per Second) driver;
PTP clock framework;
Remote Processor subsystem;
Real Time Clock drivers;
SCSI subsystem;
QCOM SoC drivers;
Media staging drivers;
TTY drivers;
UFS subsystem;
USB Gadget drivers;
USB Host Controller drivers;
File systems infrastructure;
BTRFS file system;
F2FS file system;
NILFS2 file system;
SMB network file system;
UBI file system;
Timer subsystem;
KVM subsystem;
Networking core;
ptr_ring data structure definitions;
Networking subsytem;
Amateur Radio drivers;
XFRM subsystem;
Tracing infrastructure;
BPF subsystem;
Padata parallel execution mechanism;
printk logging mechanism;
Memory management;
Bluetooth subsystem;
IPv4 networking;
IPv6 networking;
MAC80211 subsystem;
Multipath TCP;
Netfilter;
NFC subsystem;
Rose network layer;
RxRPC session sockets;
Network traffic control;
Landlock security;
Linux Security Modules (LSM) Framework;
Tomoyo security module;
SoC audio core drivers

Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
24.04 noble

linux-image-6.8.0-1015-gkeop – 6.8.0-1015.17
linux-image-6.8.0-1028-gke – 6.8.0-1028.32
linux-image-6.8.0-1029-oracle – 6.8.0-1029.30
linux-image-6.8.0-1029-oracle-64k – 6.8.0-1029.30
linux-image-6.8.0-1031-nvidia – 6.8.0-1031.34
linux-image-6.8.0-1031-nvidia-64k – 6.8.0-1031.34
linux-image-6.8.0-1031-nvidia-lowlatency – 6.8.0-1031.34.1
linux-image-6.8.0-1031-nvidia-lowlatency-64k – 6.8.0-1031.34.1
linux-image-gke – 6.8.0-1028.32
linux-image-gke-6.8 – 6.8.0-1028.32
linux-image-gkeop – 6.8.0-1015.17
linux-image-gkeop-6.8 – 6.8.0-1015.17
linux-image-nvidia – 6.8.0-1031.34
linux-image-nvidia-6.8 – 6.8.0-1031.34
linux-image-nvidia-64k – 6.8.0-1031.34
linux-image-nvidia-64k-6.8 – 6.8.0-1031.34
linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency – 6.8.0-1031.34.1
linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-6.8 – 6.8.0-1031.34.1
linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-64k – 6.8.0-1031.34.1
linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-64k-6.8 – 6.8.0-1031.34.1
linux-image-oracle-6.8 – 6.8.0-1029.30
linux-image-oracle-64k-6.8 – 6.8.0-1029.30
linux-image-oracle-64k-lts-24.04 – 6.8.0-1029.30
linux-image-oracle-lts-24.04 – 6.8.0-1029.30