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Seven stable kernels for Thursday with fix for critical vulnerability

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.11 , 6.18.57 , 6.12.113 , 6.6.159 , 6.1.190 , 5.15.223 , and 5.10.272 stable kernels. This series includes, among other things, a fix for a critical vulnerability ( CVE-2026-99999 ). The flaw in skb_checksum_help() would allow an IPv4 packet with bad checksum metadata to " corrupt the network header and cause a bunch of mischief " in the…

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Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (environment-modules, flatpak-builder, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, libreoffice, libsoup, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, OpenEXR…

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