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Eight stable kernels with fix for a single vulnerability

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.2 , 7.1.12 , 6.18.48 , 6.12.107 , 6.6.155 , 6.1.186 , 5.15.219 , and 5.10.268 stable kernels. Each of these contains a single fix for a vulnerability ( CVE-2026-80590 ) that allows marking IPv4 or IPv6 fragments as GSO , which can allow an unprivileged user to cause a kernel panic. This vulnerability has been present since Linux 2.6.27.…

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